Cody Rhodes Says His Cameo In The Naked Gun ‘Was A Really Warm Way’ To Enter The Acting World

Cody Rhodes discusses warm memories from his foray into the world of acting, discussing Street Fighter and The Naked Gun.

Cody’s career in the world of acting is only just getting off the floor, but has already featured in both The Naked Gun and the upcoming Street Fighter movie. Cody has now reflected on some of the warm memories of working on both movies.

While speaking to Sporf in a new interview, Cody Rhodes was asked if he had any stories to tell of his early acting career.

“Honestly, just having come into this very new, wanting to tell stories, but not always wanting to fall down as we do in pro wrestling, and one of the most, just like warm ways to enter this all because Street Fighter, which is coming out next month, is so good. Katsao Sakurai did such an amazing job, I think for fans of all of its lore, whether it was the graphic novels, whether it was the anime, whether it was the old movie, whether it was just the games. He’s done something for everybody and told the story unique for our time. That was such a beautiful experience. Before I went and did that, I was able to just do one day on set on Naked Gun, and that’s Liam Neeson, you know? It’s so funny because I told Brandi, ‘hey, you think I should do this? It’s one day, it’s kind of hard to get back, but it’d be amazing,’ and she actually said, ‘well, I mean, he’s a Jedi.’ So I love that we looked at him that way. We didn’t think about Schindler’s List or the various other movies that, Liam Neeson has been part of and been amazing, and we just thought, oh, it’s Qui-Gon Jinn. He’s a Jedi, and, of course, I did it. He was so gracious, and we were able to banter a little bit and then to come and see the movie and just have that bit be in there. It was a really warm way to enter this world, and now we’ve got some potential big projects with Street Fighter and beyond that I really am excited about.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Cody spoke about Randy Orton and how he falls into his ‘golden circle’ of pro wrestlers. You can read more about that here.

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