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8 Actors You Didn't Know Were Wrestlers - Lenny Montana! Brian Glover! Harold Sakata! Robert 'Jeep' Swenson?!

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🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Those who swapped headlocks for headshots. Simon Miller presents 8 Actors You Didn't Know Were Wrestlers...


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Here's a sense of reason that a lot of actors are going to become wrestlers and sometimes

0:12.0

other wrestlers are going to become actors because there are a lot of similarities.

0:15.2

You need a large of the life personality, you need to be able to act in front of a camera,

0:19.6

you need to be able to do things with a microphone in your hand or at least not in your hand

0:22.8

when you're doing a movie, and hey, if you're good at something, why not double triple

0:27.6

quadruple it up?

0:28.6

And given that we are wrestling fans, where was the talk about the rock and Hulk Hogan

0:31.8

and David Teester, who obviously went from the square circle into Hollywood, but sometimes

0:36.3

there were people already in Hollywood that you didn't know were wrestlers.

0:40.5

My name is Simon Mellowow to watch culture wrestling, and here is eight of those things

0:45.1

I just said out of my mouth.

0:46.5

Now, eight Brian Glover.

0:47.5

Oh, I Brian Glover, mostly because when he was describing himself, he would say, well,

0:52.2

I'm a bald-headed, mean-looking Yorkshireman, and anybody that's a part of the bald-brotherhood

0:57.2

is all right by me.

0:58.6

It's how he landed roles in the likes of Ken Loach's 1969 classic Liz, and also how

1:03.5

he played bottom in Shakespeare's mid-summer night dream.

1:06.5

Now, that was a little bit of a stretch given his accent, but it's called acting people,

1:11.6

you must act.

1:12.6

What he wasn't studying in front of a camera, though, Brian was a genuine wrestler known

1:16.2

as Leon Arras, and it only pronounced it like that because he used to say he was from

1:21.8

Paras.

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