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Mike “The Miz” Mizanin will be on both the big and small screens soon, and he took time recently to talk about his upcoming projects with Uproxx.com.
He reprised his role of Jake Carter in Marine 5: Battleground, which came out Tuesday on Blu-Ray and DVD. He took over the lead role in WWE Studios’ longest-running action franchise in Marine 3: Homefront in 2013, and has steadily built his acting career ever since.
The Miz will also star alongside lead actress Alison Brie, Marc Maron, Kia Stevens, whose ring name is Awesome Kong, and others in a Netflix show titled GLOW, which will be released on June 23.
GLOW is a remake of a short but popular show from the 1980s which tells the fictional story of Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie), an out-of-work actress in 1980s Los Angeles whose last chance for stardom is among the spandex and glitter world of women’s wrestling.
The Miz was asked about Maryse revitalizing his WWE career and joining him on working in Marine 5.
Uproxx: Your career got revitalized when Maryse came back, and I wanted to know, how does that help your comfort level and confidence with what you’re doing now, and did that in any way translate to having her in Marine 5 with you?
The Miz: Any time that you have a support system with you, all the time … basically, no matter what, she is literally at ringside with me. So, whenever you have your wife there, you kind of want to show off. You don’t want to be a loser in front of your wife.
So, yeah it has brought a whole new confidence to me and having her around, being able to talk to her … you know, before, she was at home and I was on the road and it takes a lot. You don’t get to be around each other, and we actually like being around each other. The main thing is: a married couple that actually enjoys being around each other. It’s shocking, isn’t it? But, we do, and she gives me a whole new revitalization because of the support that she gives. Having her in Marine 5 is just topping on the cake, you know. She earned her role, did a great job in it, and we had a lot of fun shooting the scene.
Uproxx: So, let’s talk about your co-stars real quick. You’ve got a bunch of WWE Superstars in here. Besides Maryse, you have Naomi, Bo Dallas, Heath Slater, Curtis Axel … and in my opinion, they’re all amazing in the movie. What’s your take on all of them and how they fared as actors?
The Miz: Oh, I mean, they all have the ability. It’s a matter of if they want it and what they’re going to do get it. Obviously, they came to this movie well prepared, ready to go, and now it’s just finding new things.
A cool little story that I have is, one day we were driving to the set and we were all joking around, having fun in the car, and Heath was kind of being kind of quiet. And we all know that Heath Slater is not a quiet guy. And I’m like “Heath, man, what’s wrong? You’re not being Heath Slater.” He goes, “‘Cause I’m not Heath Slater. I’m Cash.” And I was like “Ah, man, that’s good.” He was so into the character that he was preparing way before we were even getting to set!
That’s the kind of mentality that you need going into one of these types of movies. You need to be on point, ready to go, and have all their lines, have their character down, and just … have all their fights down, because we don’t have the time to mess around.
Uproxx: I know you love being the Marine, you love playing this character. If WWE Studios came to you and said, “You can do whatever you want to do with a movie,” what would be your dream project?
The Miz: My dream project? I mean, I think anyone’s dream project right now is how amazing the Marvel/DC comic book era is really coming together and really blowing up the scene. Anytime you have a movie, it’s breaking records, it’s doing great things, so obviously I’d want a Marvel character.
Obviously, Deadpool is already taken and Ryan Reynolds did an absolutely fantastic job. That was always my dream role ever since I saw the video game seven years ago, I was like “Oh my god, I want to play this guy!” But, Ryan Reynolds took it and knocked it out of the park and did an absolutely incredible job, so I can’t fault him at all. But I think anyone would want to do Marvel or DC, maybe WWE can combine with them and do something, but you never know.
Here’s a link to the full interview:
The Miz Talks ‘Marine 5,’ What To Order At Mr. Hero And Which Comic Book Hero He’d Love To Play