Adam Copeland Says It Came In Handy To Dip Into His Wrestling Playbook For Percy Jackson Role

Adam Copeland discusses the influence his time in wrestling had on his role in Percy Jackson And The Olympians.

Adam Copeland discusses his latest acting gig and how professional wrestling influenced it.

Copeland is a WWE Hall Of Famer, and has achieved an incredible amount of success inside the squared circle. When he was forced to retire in 2011, he would soon find himself in the world of acting. Initially starting off with a role on Haven, he would also feature on The Flash before securing a recurring role on Vikings. 

When Copeland returned to the ring in 2020, it would put a pause on his acting career as he returned to the industry he was forced to leave in 2011. However, Copeland has once again returned to the realm of acting with the upcoming series, Percy Jackson and The Olympians.

While speaking to The Koalition on the red carpet for the premiere of the Disney+ series, Adam would explain how he had dipped into his wrestling playbook while playing Ares in the show.

“Ares is a little bit of wrestling and that helped, you know, because you’re playing a god. So you have to be larger than life, you have to be big and that’s exactly what wrestling is. You have to amplify things to possible 80,000 people away, it has to be big, everything has to be big. Ares is big. It came in handy to kind of dip into my wrestling playbook.”

Percy Jackson And The Olympians is set to premiere on both Disney+ and Hulu on December 20th with the first season spanning eight episodes.

Copeland is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling, most recently competing on the December 6th edition of AEW Dynamite, where he would lose to Christian Cage in a TNT Championship match. You can read more about that bout here.

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