Speaking to “Stone Cold” Steve Austin on the Broken Skull Sessions on WWE Network, Undertaker opened up about his friendship with Vince McMahon and how McMahon has trusted The Undertaker judgment throughout the years:
“We had a really good creative collaboration and it just through the years our friendship grew, but he obviously trusted my judgment with a lot of the things with the character. It was originally his vision, but he gave me a lot of creative liberty with it and he trusted me when I felt like I needed to turn into the American Bad Ass. He obviously must have felt it too. I mean we’ve butted heads and things have been rough but at the end of the day we both… Our passion is the same. We want to put out the best product possible. I never thought of myself as the locker room leader. It just kind of happened in a sense. It’s just because I was there for everything. And I tell people that sometimes, and I never mean for it to come off like I’m being an ass. But times were so hard, so lean, when business was so bad. I’ve made more and one pay off than I did in a whole year. It’s just another little thing that I put in the back of my head because I know this is where I need to be.”
“Regardless of if we butt heads or we don’t agree, which is gonna happen, it’s a creative business. We’re not gonna always see eye to eye. You and I may not have the same vision on a finish but we’ll get there. You know, that’s just the process and it’s the same with him. But we know where we got to be. I mean, I always knew that. Regardless, he gave me my chance. [There’s] no telling where I would have been if he hadn’t Give me the chance. And I just never forgot that.”
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