Current Lucha Underground star Johnny Mundo, was the most recent guest on E&C’s Podcast Of Awesomeness. During their discussion, Mundo talked having to sell his house in order to fund “Boone: The Bounty Hunter”, why he left WWE & more.
Here are the highlights:
Using Pro-Wrestling Slang:
“I assimilate things in life and just in general with wrestling all the time now. It doesn’t matter what it is; it could be like, I sit down at Denny’s and my eggs come out wrong, ‘uh oh, the server just turned heel.’ ‘It’s a cluster, oh God.’ ‘Looks like a TNA house show, uh oh.’ No offense.”
Why He Left WWE:
“I knew I wanted to do a movie, an action movie and when I left WWE in 2011, I didn’t specifically know, I didn’t leave to do Boone: The Bounty Hunter, I left to do a movie and I wanted to be able to do what I’m best at, which I think is pro wrestling, parkour and MMA-style fight choreo and have a comedic, self-deprecating, have a reluctant hero be the star and have it be an action movie, an action comedy.”
Having To Sell His Home To Fund His Movie:
“I just kept cutting the budget further and further and further until we ended up with the current iteration of Boone, which I ended up having to fund because around 2014 it felt like, we had all this cast, director and everyone attached and we pushed the dates a couple of times and it felt like if we pushed the dates again. It would slip away, so, I ended up selling my house to fund the production of Boone: The Bounty Hunter and once I did that, I was locked in because a half-finished movie, it turns out, isn’t worth anything.”
