Zelina Vega joined Ryan Satin on the “Out of Character” podcast this week.
During it, she discussed being ready to leave the wrestling business in 2017, but after a conversation with The Rock, he changed her mind. She did the wrestling portion in the final scene of Wrestling With My Family, a movie based on Paige’s life, that was produced by The Rock’s Seven Bucks Production company.
“I told Dwayne, I remember texting him. I said, ‘Dude, I’m about ready to give up on everything in wrestling. I don’t want to have anything to do with wrestling anymore. This is the umpteenth time WWE has said no to me. I’m over this. I don’t want to do this anymore. He said, ‘Just give me a few days. I have something I’m working on.’ I said, ‘Ok.’ It just so happened to be TakeOver. The way that this played out was the weirdest thing. I’m watching Andrade’s match and William Regal called me. He’s like, ‘Do you speak Spanish?’ I said, ‘Yes, why?’ He’s like, ‘Actually no, it doesn’t matter. I’ll call you back’, and he hung up. I let it go like, whatever. Then like an hour later, Dwayne called me and said, ‘Hey, I have this opportunity for you.’ I said, ‘This wouldn’t have anything to do with William Regal calling me would it?’ He said, ‘No actually, but that’s really cool, but anyway, Paige has this documentary. It’s about a family. Do you remember when she came back and beat AJ for the title?’ I’m like, ‘Yes, I remember all these things. I know what you’re talking about.’ He said, ‘I want you to be my Diva’s Champion and you don’t even have to audition for the part. I know you can do it.’ I remember I couldn’t form words. I was trying to form words and then crying. I was so thankful and couldn’t wait to attack this. Later on that night, like two in the morning, I was like, ‘Why hasn’t William Regal called me? That’s so weird. What was that about then?’ It was so weird. We did the movie. Right after that, he called me back again and he said, ‘So I think this is actually going to work.’ It gave me an opportunity because I had done tryouts since 2010, and it’s the same thing. You go in, do a bunch of drills, work out, promos, and all these things, but they don’t actually get to see you in front of a crowd and how you handle that. I think the time I got to do the AJ promo, the match, and how I handled all that, it made them go like, ‘Ok, she can do this’, and it was full speed ahead after that.”
H/T to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription
