Cody Rhodes has framed Hollywood as a natural next step from a WWE career, telling The Rich Eisen Show that moving into Hollywood is “a definite natural extension” of the storytelling work wrestlers do in the ring.
Rhodes has been building his Hollywood profile across his WWE run, with the upcoming Street Fighter live-action film being one of the big projects on his calendar. He plays Guile in the Kitao Sakurai-directed adaptation, with Roman Reigns playing Akuma in the same film.
“I definitely want to grow beyond telling stories in the ring. I got the opportunity to do Street Fighter, it comes out this October. Kitao Sakurai directed this movie. I saw bits of it the other day. I think it’s going to be a huge hit. I hope it is, because I had such a fun time making it. I want to do more of that. What we do in the ring is tell stories, I’d love to do it outside of falling down in the pro-wrestling ring, but that’ll come when this is done.”
He discussed the broader wrestler-to-Hollywood lineage.
“Moving into Hollywood is a definite natural extension of what we do next. Just being able to tell stories. Batista, Dwayne, Cena, Terry Funk even. There has been so many examples of guys who really did well with it, and brought their skillset over to it.”
Rhodes doubled down that his immediate priorities is all about WWE.
“Everyone who carried the actual main title in the industry has to carry it with the responsibility that comes with it, and the responsibility has a timeline on it. Keeping this as long as I can is the immediate goal.”
Rhodes also addressed what is keeping him in WWE despite his Hollywood interests.
“Beyond that, there’s a few matches left on the board at WWE I haven’t had, and there will be new matches coming about each day, because we have so many guys getting locked and loaded down in NXT that I’ll probably want to touch before all is said and done.”
Rhodes is scheduled to defend the Undisputed WWE Championship against GUNTHER at Clash in Italy on May 31 in Turin.
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