AJ Lee On Her Character Work In WWE: I Think That’s The Healthiest Thing, To Leave Yourself Behind The Curtain
AJ Lee comments on her character work in WWE, noting that for her, the healthiest thing she can do is leave her real self behind the curtain.
AJ Lee comments on her character work in WWE, noting that for her, the healthiest thing she can do is leave her real self behind the curtain.
AJ, like a lot of professional wrestlers, plays a character on screen that is an extension of her real life personality, but with several differences. For AJ, she feels that is her armor to allow her to be a WWE superstar.
While speaking to The Match-Up in a new interview, AJ Lee spoke about leaving herself behind the curtain when she performs in pro wrestling.
“I think that’s the healthiest thing, is to leave yourself behind the curtain like that. (It’s) The only way I could ever do it, like if I had to go out there as AJ Mendez, I would just explode into dust like there’s just no way I could do it. But like you almost have to like, healthily disassociate and become this different character, and that’s the person that is performing and has all the storylines and the wins and the losses. They’re not you. You can’t take that home with you or take it personally, and then also it’s like this art form you get to give to the world and then it’s not yours anymore. So they can dissect it and praise it or tear it apart or whatever they want to do. It’s because it’s It’s part of the show, and so that’s the way I stay the healthiest. Yeah, like the pieces of her come from me, but it’s very much an armor of a character that needs to exist in order to do all of that. It has to be a performance and me has to be protected and not shared with the world in that capacity and so that’s kind of the only way to survive I think as long as I have in like that… in the public world but yeah, it’s so funny because it is like the- almost the opposite. Like you have to, at least for me, I’m sure there’s wrestlers that it’s them 100 out there, but I don’t know. What do they do? Do they stare at the wall at the end of the night? I would be so drained. I would just have nothing left for myself.”
Elsewhere in a recent interview of her own, Kaitlyn spoke about AJ making her WWE return last year. You can read more about that here.
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