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En entrevue pour le podcast E&C’s Pod Of Awesomeness (animé par Edge et Christian), Sami Zayn a fait quelques confidences intéressantes. Voici quelques faits marquants, portant principalement sur son personnage “heel”.
– Zayn considère que Vince McMahon est un génie. Il soutient que son cerveau travaille différemment par rapport à la moyenne des gens. Sa vision de Zayn en tant que “heel” n’était pas ce que le lutteur avait envisagé, mais il affirme maintenant que MxMahon avait raison.
“Vince’s vision is super-different and I kind of get when people call him a ‘genius’, I kind of get it in a sense because call it ‘genius’ or call it whatever you want, but there’s no debating that his mind works different than everybody else’s does, so everybody else will see things one way and he’ll see it one completely different way. So his vision for me as a heel was completely different from how I viewed it, but as soon as I did it for the first week or the second week, and now I’ve gotten a couple of house shows under my belt, I’m like, ‘oh, man. He’s so right!’ He’s right.”
– Ses interactions avec Vince McMahon étaient plutôt limitées car il n’était pas impliqué dans des histoires majeures. McMahon lui a suggéré de sourire dans le cadre de son personnage “heel”, ce qui est plus efficace et percutant.
“My interactions with Vince have been a little bit more limited because I haven’t been involved in as many prominent storylines, so now, this is something that I feel he sunk his teeth into and just getting to pick his brain a tiny bit about how he views the character. But he didn’t even get into detail. Like, some of it was just, he would just say, ‘smile out there.’ I go, ‘really? Smile?’ He goes, ‘big smile out there.’ And then, I’d do it and I’m like, ‘oh, man! Of course! Like, it’s so much more heat than going out there and scowling and being like, ‘you guys all did me wrong! if you’re smiling, it’s just so much more obnoxious and so much more dislikable. And, again, it’s just such a simple thing and you start to see it. Once you execute it and it works, that’s like another little lightbulb that goes off in your head.”
– Zayn affirme que son personnage “heel” est inspiré fortement de son ex-petite amie. Il mentionne qu’il déteste d’elle ce qu’il aimait auparavant. C’est selon lui une question de perception.
“I’ll try to sum [the character] up as easily as I can. The analogy that I would give is it’s almost like when you’re dating a girl and she kind of has these quirks, but they’re lovable. But once you break up, it’s like, ‘oh, God! She was so annoying! She would always hog the blankets, she always wanted the room at 65º,’ or whatever. Do you know what I mean? Like, the things you used to love about her, now, you hate about her because you don’t love her anymore. So it’s almost to me, that’s where I’m at right now. It’s like, the character isn’t all-of-a-sudden dying his hair black and wearing eyeliner or something like that. It’s just he’s the same kind of he, now it just means something different because his intentions are different.”
– Il s’attendait à demeurer “face” toute sa carrière, mais aime son personnage “heel”. Zayn mentionne qu’il était un peu comme Ricky Steamboat, qui n’a jamais été détesté des foules. Il trouve excitant le fait d’avoir une attitude détestable dans le ring, même si ça nécessite encore de l’adaptation.
“It was kind of a fantasy in the back of my head to one day kind of do the same thing as Steamboat, like have a great career, but have always been like a straight-laced babyface through-and-through, beginning to end. And I’ve done, like, a good job. I’ve done tiny, tiny heel stints, but nothing of substance. So, again, it was another one of those little heartbreak moments, but the second it’s over, it’s like, ‘man, what do we do now? There’s so much that can be done.’ So I’m very, very excited, but in full disclosure, the part that I don’t have full confidence in yet, but I’m sure it’ll come, is actually working, working, as a heel. I’m going to need to relearn this a little bit.”
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