Vinny Pacifico Discusses Juggling Acting And Wrestling, Being Strategic With Is Planning To Avoid Being Overwhelmed

Vinny Pacifico discusses the issues of juggling acting and pro wrestling, noting that being strategic with planning helps.

Vinny is a professional wrestler, but has also managed to develop a career in acting, being cast in multiple roles over the past couple of years.

While speaking to Fightful Overbooked’s In The Weeds in a new interview, Vinny Pacifico spoke about managing and juggling pro wrestling and acting.

“Great question. Thank you for asking. That’s a really good question. Luckily for me, I’ve been extremely lucky to have a lot of my filming for movies or TV be on weekdays and wrestling is mostly weekends. So I kind of need to plan a schedule to where I could really do both whenever, however I can. Like, for example, I did a film called The Hours That Keep Us with Paige VanZant and Mickey Gall. That was filming in August. I filmed Tuesday through Friday and then wrestled Saturday. So it was all it was Massachusetts we filmed. We did a premiere for one of the other movies they’re doing, and then I flew out to wrestle the next day. So I made that work. I think it’s all about making it work. It’s way busier because I’m not home really at all anymore. The last few weeks I have been home, the last few weeks, like I said, I filmed, I got back home. Now I’m taking care of things at home. My grandma is starting to not do so well. So I’m trying to take care of her however I can and spend more time with her because it’s just, it’s just, you know, I think I try to take a step back and realize, like, I have family who love me, and I love them so much, and I’ve missed so much of my life rom the age of 14 to, like, 20. I missed everything. I was never home. I was just wrestling and training, and that was it.  I was 20, I met my wife, so I started to be around a little more, but still always traveling and now few years later, I’m acting and it’s way more busy and I’m never really around. It’s not easy to not be home. But I will say this, getting to do both and having to do both, making my schedule available enough to wrestle and then act and then wrestle and act has been great. But also, like I said, way more busy. I’m home way less, and you have to just be really strategic with the planning. That’s what I’ve gotten really good at.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Vinny spoke about wanting to wrestle in Europe again. You can read more about that here.