Triple H Says It Doesn’t Create Friction Working With Talent On Stories, It Creates A Partnership
Triple H is the lead creative director in WWE, putting together the stories and the matches that play out on television.
Before assuming an office position, he was one of the stars of WWE through multiple eras, so he knows what it’s like to be in a talent position and trying to get his or her creative idea through to television.
Speaking at the All In Summit, Triple H was asked if there is friction between him and talent as they pitch ideas that he might have to shoot down.
“It doesn’t create friction. It creates a partnership, which is what I love. One of my favorite parts of my job is to sit down in a room with talent and say, ‘Where do we want to go? How do we want to get there?’ It’s not the conversation of, ‘I want to be the champion.’ Okay, everybody does. ‘What is your story and how do we tell it, and who among the other talent can have a story that goes against your arc to tell a great story?’ Once we start to riff those things….today’s world is different. You go back 40-50 years, Ivan Koloff was a Canadian who played a Russian because we were in the middle of a cold war and it was an easy thing to do. You couldn’t do that character now because the internet would go, ‘He’s from Canada.’ They know the truth. Today, you have to blend who you are in real life with the character that you play and blur this line with the fourth wall of, ‘Was that real? Do these guys really not like each other?’ While you’re putting it together backstage, we’re all agreeing on where we want to go. Then we tell this story where people can’t tell what’s real and what’s fantasy. That’s when it gets magical,” he said.
WWE blurred the lines of reality with WWE Unreal, which is now streaming on Netflix.
Ahead of Monday’s WWE Raw, Triple H stated that there is a new landscape in the company.
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