Chelsea Green Explains The WWE Creative Process, Enjoys Improvising Scripts
The WWE creative process, as told by Chelsea Green.
Chelsea Green is one of the top WWE Superstars on WWE Friday Night SmackDown. She also takes pride in being an entertaining character every week on WWE TV. During a recent interview with WKMG, she was asked to explain the WWE creative process and how shows evolve from the creative team’s minds to the finished product distributed to millions.
Chelsea Green explained that it all starts with Triple H and his direct team of creative professionals before being passed down to a smaller team of writers who then collaborate with the wrestlers, who work together. Chelsea also mentioned that she enjoys improvising scripts, but noted that every wrestler has their own preferred style. Some memorize what has been written for them.
“Basically, it goes from Triple H down to the creative team, and they’ll spend the week molding the show, molding the look of the show, the theme, the arc of the show, and the storylines. Then it’ll trickle down to another team of writers, and they’ll write out the pre-tapes and the scripts and things like that. Then it’s given to the talent, and depending on who it is, we either memorize the script and go out there or improvise. It just depends on the trust and faith that WWE has in you, and also maybe how creative you are, maybe how much you love to improvise.
“I love improvisation, and I love comedy, so I like to rework a script to be really outlandish and ridiculous, and then I like to surprise my scene partner with things that I’ll say in the moment to try to make them break character. But we do have little things like rehearsals and stuff like that when we’re going through backstages and things that are going to go live, because at the end of the day, we’ve only got X amount of time we cannot go over. The minute that we go over that time, we’re taking out of somebody else’s precious minutes in the ring or backstage, and you just never want to do that. I want to make sure that as many wrestlers are seen on TV every week as we can possibly see.”
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Check out the full interview with Chelsea embedded below.
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