WWE Hall of Famer Adam “Edge” Copeland recently spoke with Forbes. Here are the highlights.
You’ve been really busy lately it seems. Aside from your show on WWE Network with Christian, you also recently appeared in an action film with Lana, whose currently working with the WWE. What was it like shooting Interrogation and working with Lana?
“Right now I’m filming Vikings, which has me back and forth between Dublin and home. It makes the idea of Season two of TEACSTTROA more difficult schedule-wise. The movie with Lana and I is called Interrogation. We filmed about 2 years ago now. It was fun. We filmed a movie in 11 days, very fast, which is classic WWE style and kudos to our director Stephen Reynolds for being to pull that off. Everyone had to be on their toes and super prepared, especially Lana. She was coming in straight off the road, had 5 days to film all of her scenes and head right back out. She nailed it.”
Obviously, your presence as an in-ring performer is something many fans miss. I imagine learning you’d never be able to wrestle was difficult to grasp. How long would say it took you to accept it and move on?
“It wasn’t as difficult as some may think. Once I had a week or so to process, I understood it just sped up what would have been my decision to retire the following year anyway. I had been wrapping my head around the idea of retirement since about 2009 and my torn Achilles. At 35, that could have ended my career, so I had to come to terms with the possibility. Plus I had 15 years with WWE and all told a 20 year career, where I did absolutely everything I could in terms of accomplishments. I wrung that profession for all the juice I could get out of it. If I hadn’t done that, it may have been more difficult.”
