You met with him at WrestleMania III. Were you specifically looking to cast him at that point, or were you just meeting him?
I just met him there. I went as a fan; a wrestling fan. His manager at the time, David Wolfe, got a hold of me and said, You wanna meet Roddy and think about this movie? I said, well, sure. So I met him, and he was a really nice guy. We hit it off well, you know, I had been a wrestling fan since I was a kid, so we had much to talk about, and Roddy was trying to make a move out of wrestling, trying to get into acting. So I agreed to meet him and he was very nice, and we just went from there.
Are you still a big wrestling fan?
Not so much anymore. They gave up one of the key elements of wrestling, at least from the days that I knew it, was something called kayfabe [the pretense that everything in pro-wrestling is real], which is essentially
well, if you know the word, you know what it is.
Yes.
Its really a lifestyle, as Roddy described it to me; its a way of living. Since thenI needed that, to enjoy it, to really enjoy it, I needed that 10%. That was kind of taken away.