What’s it like working with or for Vince McMahon? 

I met Vince in ‘99 I think with Stone Cold they came to town in London and we’d done the WWE there the wrestling. I was Stone Cold’s tag partner, it’s a small world. But he asked me if I’d do the wrestling and I said yeah.  He said we’re going to team you up with Stone Cold Steve Austin, so when this call came through and said Stone Cold’s doing this movie and I thought it must be the end of his career as a wrestler as well then, you know. 

Did you ever want to be the hero?  Why couldn’t you be the hero?  You think of yourself as a bad guy?  You said a bad guy in action films.

In this?

In this one, the next one you’re doing?  Could you picture yourself doing like Steve Austin’s part?

I think a good baddy the audience loves them.  They love to hate you. I said to Steve that for me this movie, if they cheer him and hate me and boo me we’ve done our job.  The last couple of minutes of the movie for me turns the audience around on McStarley for me.  They go shit, he’s intelligent. All this stuff has built up and this is not just because he’s been paid to do this well, this is a human being sitting there. 

But then you kill everyone.

It’s the part when I’m in the chair.  Did it not say to you, when I’ve killed everybody and then I stop and I go do you enjoy watching all this? 

Some people were applauding when you killed them all but….

When McStarley actually stops and says do you enjoy watching all this it’s like the kid’s like what do you mean?  In some of the takes, I say this is wrong.  You can’t watch that, you know.  McStarley, his character is what you see for an hour and a half and the last 5 minutes it shows you that somewhere this guy was an intelligent guy.  Where did he come from? The fact that he was down there on the shop floor working for Robert Mammone doesn’t take away that he still doesn’t agree with what’s been going on and in real life we’re the same. There’s a big message, because how far in the future is it? 

Do you have any other projects that are lined up that will be happening after the one you’re filming right now?

I’m doing Midnight Meat Train now for Lakeshore and for Lionsgate.  I’m going on to do Hell Ride a Tarantino project with Larry Bishop and then I’m going on to The Heavy in London. That’s my next….

Can you talk a little bit about your character in both of those films?

In Hell Ride, I play a biker—it’s about the bikers. It’s with Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen, Larry Bishop and myself.  We’re bikers and I play Billy Wings, I’ve got all sorts of wings and you have to watch the movie to find out what the wings are about. Then in the Heavy, I play a detective, a beard like yours, big scar and I spit futuristic gangster stuff.

Who’s directing that project?

Marcus Warren wrote and directed it.

Working with Larry Bishop on something like that, I mean, looking up to him and I don’t know if you look but with motorcycles do you talk to him about that or have you had the chance to talk to him about that? 

About what?

About riding motorcycles.

Sure, we was up at XO the other day choosing the bike and we were building my bike for Billy Wings and it’s quite fascinating.  Larry’s a character man. He’s a dude.  You look under dude’s in the dictionary and it says Larry Bishop, man, he’s great.

So you just hang out.  Do you talk bikes or…?

Well, we did Sunday. That’s what we done.  It’s one of the best scripts I’ve read for a long, long time. Yeah, this is the nice part about movie making. Sometimes we’re all after the big bucks but when the smaller budget comes along and you do it for the script it’s good for your heart.

On this film, what was the set like in between the scenes?  You’ve got all this testosterone going on and these really tough guys you know acting together.  Was it easy getting in and out of character or did you stay in character?

There was a lot of mickey taking because Steve’s got a great sense of humor. 

He said that about you.

Yeah.  The laughs were fantastic.  But the only scene that went not wrong it went right, but the scene where I rape the girl, well see you can’t just walk into work and be laughing and joking and do a scene like that so I came to work and I was just had to alienate myself from everybody and I stayed away. I worked myself up into such a frenzy about what I was going to do and what I was going to do to this woman because I’m always have been in my life a big protector of women.  If I see a guy slap a girl I would rip their head off.  I’m very like that.   So I had to get myself into this and it really spooked everybody because we’d done it even in between sets I didn’t speak to anybody I was in completely in the zone, you know.  I was freaked out. We went to lunch and the whole crew was freaked out. There was this ridiculous atmosphere and then even until going home at the end of the day I couldn’t …it just never left me and I came back in the next day and we sort of eased into it but everybody had this big hangover of that rape scene.

Thanks.

Always good to finish on a nice note.