Priscilla Kelly: Gigi Dolin Feels Like An Entirely Separate Entity From Priscilla Kelly. To Me, It’s A Whole Different Character
Priscilla Kelly struggled with her character’s authenticity in WWE.
After spending over four years with WWE as Gigi Dolin, Priscilla Kelly was released from the company earlier this year. Almost instantly, Kelly started to rack up indie bookings in promotions like GCW, Wrestling REVOLVER, and House Of Glory.
Speaking with Denise Salcedo for a new interview, Kelly was very open about her attempts to bring more of the Priscilla Kelly character into WWE, saying that it was hard to do things the way that she wanted to do them.
“I tried my best to bring Priscilla Kelly into WWE. I really tried. I would film a lot of these promos for the internal performance center website and I would try to pitch these ideas and they would take my ideas, but a lot of times the way that their team would film it and execute it, to me it just never felt like my work. Gigi Dolin feels like an entirely separate entity from Priscilla. To me, it’s a whole different character. There’s elements of Priscilla in there but at the end of the day, it’s completely separate. In WWE, it can be very hard to portray things the way you want them to look and the way you want them to be presented because you’re not the one producing it, you’re not always the one writing it, you’re not always the one filming it. With all my independent stuff and the stuff I would make myself, it was me producing, me writing, me filming. Even like all the promos I have done, including the one I just did for MLW, a lot of these social medias, my return promo, that’s all me. I’m the one directing it, I’m the one writing it, I’m the one doing everything. It’s kind of like when you have a recipe that’s your recipe and you give your recipe to somebody else, it’s going to turn out different even if they’re using the same ingredients. I think that’s what happened a lot of the time with WWE. I would give them my ideas, but then they would be the ones along it, so it always read different to me. With WWE, there’s a lot more restriction on what you can wear, what you can do, what you can say, how you can act sometimes. It’s very hard to — sometimes it can be hard to let your authentic side show as well. You’re portraying a character.”
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