WWE has been a somewhat steady client over the past 8 or so years. Shooting for them is always entertaining. They are after all in the entertainment business. Admittedly, I’m not much of a wrestling fan anymore, but definitely was growing up. And the person I was a biggest fan of towards the end was Stone Cold Steve Austin. The Texas Rattlesnake. So it was a lot of fun shooting on the set of his show a few months ago. The thing I always appreciated about him was that he always did his own thing. He wasn’t looking for approval. If you liked what he was about, then great. If not, that’s fine too. Fast forward to 2019, and he still has that same attitude to a certain extent. He started his own show so he could do things his way. And watching him do his thing was cool to see. On the show he interviewed The Undertaker, another WWE legend that I enjoyed as a kid. On set though, you get to see that just like every other celebrity athlete, they are just people. On TV they are literally larger than life. Off TV they are still enormous, but still just people. Over the years I’ve shot with a number of elite celebrity athletes like Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal. Most of the time though, they are guarded by people in their crew that are paid to keep people away from them. So for the most part, they come to set, do their business and get out. On the show, it was just a couple guys hanging out, drinking, and bullshitting about old times. Very humanizing. Very candid. After the show we were hanging around on set where Steve has a bar. Everybody was drinking a couple beers and I told the producer that this is a show everyone can watch. Not just wrestling fans because it’s show where two guys have a real conversation. It’s not two famous wrestlers. Just two guys. Looking forward to another one.
