Charles “The Godfather” Wright has explained the initial pitch for his Papa Shango character that he portrayed early in his WWE career, which he says had a James Bond inspiration.
While appearing on the “Insight with Chris Van Vliet” podcast, the WWE legend recalled Vince McMahon explaining the Papa Shango character to him.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On Vince McMahon explaining the Papa Shango character to him: “Vince hires me and says, ‘You got the body of a monster but you got a baby face.’ He called me one day and said, ‘Charles, I want you to go rent the movie Live and Let Die.”
On the character’s end coming as a result of his divorce causing personal chaos: “I was getting into a lot of fights — real fights — and ‘Taker was pulling me off of people, and it was getting ugly. I went in there with Vince and Mark and we decided it would be best if I went home and got my mind right before somebody got hurt. I know that’s wild, but I was a different person back then.”
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