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Brisk Iced Tea Launches Campaign Featuring Roman Reigns Ahead Of Movie Premiere
Roman Reigns has a chance to make a major buzz in Hollywood, starring alongside Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw”.
Reigns spoke with AOL, and revealed the differences between working inside within the professional wrestling world and Hollywood.
“Within WWE we kind of use a bunch of different disciplines in performing arts,” Reigns stated. “Where I’m at right now, the huge difference for me would be comparing [film] to the live performance. It’s what is so addicting about sports entertainment, about WWE, about professional wrestling, you get your feedback immediately. It’s very cool to be able to create a world within feature films, television. To build a role and then completely change from character to character. I like all of the different changes between the genres of film.”
Reigns also revealed that he didn’t speak to The Rock prior to auditioning for the role, and nepotism didn’t play a factor in getting his big break in Hollywood.
“I had heard about the project and figured I’d just read for it, see how it goes, I don’t think Dwayne actually knew I was reading for it or interested in it at the beginning. Once my tape went out and they were happy with it, fairly serious [about me coming on], I think they told D.J. that I was in the hunt. It was pretty neat to go through the regular process and then see what happens once someone like Dwayne gets his fingerprints on something.”
Reigns had acclimate to the way stunts are done in major motion pictures. While he is used to performing his own in WWE, he had a stunt double on set of Hobbs & Shaw.
“In the ring we don’t look at it as stunts, we’re just working,” Reigns stated. “I’m so used to throwing my body around, the idea of doing it when nobody other than just the crew and people in production are watching, my adrenaline doesn’t get going for that. Having a stunt double, his name was Niko, I loved every bit of him, it was awesome.
“All I had to do was just look cool and stand there and say my lines, do the acting bit of it, but when it was time for me to get hit or do something crazy, Niko would be there. That was the cool part, especially where I was, resting, healing, being able to take advantage of that process and not beat my body up during the production, it was a nice spin on things for a change.”
“Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw” will hit theaters on August 2. Ahead of its release Brisk has launched a campaign with custom “Hobbs & Shaw” labeled cans. Check out the commercial below starring Reigns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bu6r9P11TU