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His Upcoming WWE Studiios Film:
"It's called Bending the Rules, I play a cop who's been kicked off the force pending, because he was skimming money out of some of his busts and things like that to put his daughter through school. So he's kind of one these - I likened to The Big Lebowski that can fight. So it was a good experience. It was fun. We shot it down in New Orleans last August. I believe it comes out in January. I think it's straight to DVD, it's through WWE. It had Jamie Kennedy, Jennifer Esposito, Philip Baker Hall, Jessica Walter -- so it had some really good actors in it, which was fun for me to kind of try and pick their brains."
What He'd Like to Do, Acting-wise in the Future:
"I hadn't really thought of it in those terms honestly. Yes I hadn't really thought of anyone in particular that I'd, "Man it'd be cool to do a scene with that person," or "be directed by that person," or anything. Go to any Marvel Studios film and I'm just like, "Man, I could play that villain." That's kind of the (unintelligible) of being like a lifelong comic book fan, I think that's kind of a given. But I'm starting now to watch things in a different respect and try and really - instead of just enjoy just a movie, really try and focus on performances now. I don't fashion myself an actor by any means, but I'd like to start understanding why certain people make certain choices. So I'm having fun watching movies in a different way now."
How WWE Prepared him for Acting:
"Well I mean, one of the great things that I was able to have with WWE is that we adlib so much of what we do. We would (unintelligible) on the air at 9 o'clock and they wanted me to fill eight to ten minutes of time talking. And give me a script two minutes before I went out. Well obviously I'm not going to memorize that in two minutes. So what are the bullet points? I'll hit them. So in that respect it was pretty cool, to be in front of a live audience worldwide and be out there without a net, if you make a mistake it's out there. And it really taught me to think on my feet. It made getting scripts and lines really easy because I actually have time to study lines. It's like, "Okay, cool." So it was good training in that respect because now at least I know I can, you know, think on my feet and hopefully get across, you know if - with an actor who wants to just kind of go off script and just feel it, then I think I can do that."
Whether the WWE improvisational style of performing or a more set acting performance was more fulfilling for Edge:
"I don't know, I think they can both be rewarding. I don't if you can tear them, in a way, just because it's like there are similarities, but they're different animals too. So I think once you see the end result and the end product, that's when it's rewarding, whereas with WWE and with wrestling it's like instant, and you know whether it worked or not. So I kind of like that up in the air, "Did it work? Did it work? I don't know, I don't know until I see it." That's kind of cool, but it was also great to know instantly whether it worked or not. So I can't - it's tomato, tomato. I don't know they're kind of like - or apples and oranges I guess."
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