During a recent edition of the “Busted Open Radio” podcast, Nic Nemeth (Dolph Ziggler) recalled his WWE storyline with Miro (Rusev) and CJ Perry (Lana) and how challenging it was to kiss The Ravishing Russian on camera in front of The Bulgarian Brute.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On why he thinks Vince McMahon booked the angle with Lana and Rusev: “I think Vince [McMahon]’s rewarding me instead of giving me winning matches or championships was to be like, ‘Hey, he’s with this girl now.’ I think that was my reward, was that I got a girlfriend at work. We’re in a very small room with (Lana and Rusev) and Vince is saying like, ‘Okay, we gotta’ see- we need you to be passionate together,’ and we have to practice kissing in a very small room with her husband there with Vince watching like this with a pencil (gestures) and you’re like, ‘Oh God.’”
On how it became like a weird bonding experience: “It was also in the 2010s to where everyone’s online; again, not in WWE but in Hollywood it was much more like, ‘Are you okay with this? Are you okay with this? Okay now we go do a scene,’ instead of just like, ‘Go make it gross. Thank you,’ which is kind of the thing that we got. It’s not what you’re thinking in a lights-down hotel room… but it is absolutely the funniest, biggest rush when you get it, and you get it right.”
