Shaun Newman Podcast - Ep. #146 - Tyler Mane

Episode Date: January 25, 2021

Originally from Saskatoon SK. he toured the world wrestling for over a decade before making the jump to Hollywood. Since then he has appeared in  X-men (Sabretooth), Troy, The Scorpion King & Rob Zombie's Halloween - he was Mike Myers. Super laid back he tells story from the glory days of wrestling where he crossed paths with Andre the Giant & Rocky Johnson (The Rock's pops). Let me know what you think Text me! 587-217-8500

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Since then, he got his start into movies and has been seen in such movies as X-Men, Troy, Halloween, Scorpion King. I'm talking about Tyler Main. So buckle up, here we go. This is Tyler Maine, and welcome to the Sean Newman podcast. Welcome to the Sean Newman podcast today. I'm joined by Mr. Tyler Maine. So first off, thanks for hopping on with me. Hey, thanks for having me, man.

Great to be here. I got to say, for the people who can't see you, you have one badass beard going on. There we go. Yeah, I'm going to actually for a part. I'm doing another period piece. So that's why I'm growing it. Well, I got to say, I'm sitting here back in the oil patch.

I got to shave every, like, second day. I miss growing a good old beard, but I don't know if I've ever had one that looks as good as that. I've had it bigger, you know, for Halloween 2 and that. But I just had to trim it up a little bit because it's getting a little unruly, even though it is, you know, we are quarantined and stuff. I still got to live with myself. And my wife's got to live with me too. Well, let's talk about it.

You know, when I first reached out, I stumbled upon you because you're originally from Saskatoon. And being from Lloyd Minster, I was, I don't know, I was tracking down notable people. And you've done some pretty interesting things in movies, sure. For a lot of people, I can't remember. All I've ever heard of was the highlights of Stampede Wrestling. But I mean, you're a guy who trained with some of the best in the biz, that type of thing. but maybe we could just start with growing up in Saskatoon and how in the world you went from wrestling to movies

and everything in between. Yeah, yeah. You know, I was a tall, skinny kid, glasses, braces. I was dyslexic. And, you know, I was picked on in school, and every Saturday morning, Stampede Wrestling would come on. And I would watch Stampede Wrestling, and I'm like, I'm going to do that someday.

and then I'd watch the action movies afterwards, you know, Stallone and Schwarzenegger and all of them. And I'd watch that all weekend until I had to go back to school on Monday morning. And then I'd be crying. My mom would throw me out in the back step and say, go to school, kid. And I just said I'm going to do it someday and started hitting the weight and doing martial arts and went to Stampede Wrestling and met Stu

and went into the dungeon and he stretched me and then here we are, you know, 11-half years of pro wrestling. I went from there to Red Bastine in Los Angeles and trained with him. And after that, I just traveled the world and was tagged with Kevin Nash for a while. And then went independent, you know, Japan, Germany, Austria, England, South Africa, Yugoslavia, you name it. You know? Well, I have to assume by the time you went to meet Stu, you weren't a tall, gangly kid with braces anymore.

No, I got rid of the braces. I was still a little skinny, but, you know, they packed on the way. I started to end the wrestling, like probably when it was like 1920, somewhere in there, 18, 1920, started training. and then in 86 Christmas Day, I started my pro career in Portland, Oregon for Don Owens in the NWA. I was born in May 86. So you got a couple. I find it fascinating. As you can probably tell by my teeth, everybody loves to comment how I'm missing the front chicklet.

But I find it fast. You got to be a hockey player, huh? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've traveled a good part of the world playing hockey. And I, you know, I feel like I live a little bit under a rock or a box because I get to now with the podcast, I get to stumble into people who've done the same thing, just in very different. Like, you know, that's what intrigued me. You know, the movie thing is cool. And I hope we get to talk a bit about it. But the wrestling thing I find fascinating that you've toured the world wrestling. And, you know, as a kid, I grew up watching the WWF. And, you know, out on the the farm, we only had two channels. It was either, I don't know, I don't even know what the other channel was, because who cared? You had the Hulkmeister out there just whooping and the ultimate warrior and everybody else, right? Like, it was, that was, I mean, it's got such a cult following, right?

Yeah, yeah. I get why, you know, with the stampede wrestling, you were like drawn in, like, I get that. But how, you know, for people who don't know you, Tyler, how tall do you stand? About 6-8. So I got a little bit of height. And then when I was at the heaviest wrestling, and I was about 358. 358?

348-358 at 6-8. And one of the highlights of my wrestling career is I was one of the last people to wrestle Andre the Giant, if not the last people, in the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. so yeah it's uh i've had a i've had a what was what was wrestling what was wrestling the giant like it was fantastic you know i mean it was in of course his latter part and uh i was there to make him look good and and uh he's a fantastic guy you know and when he went to to pin me uh he goes oh sorry boss and i mean he landed on me and it was just like i was like oh good

Get off. He's like, just a minute, boss. Just a minute bows. And then he thanked me. And, you know, it was just, it was just such a pleasure working with Andre the Giant. Oh, man. There's a, there is an absolute legend, isn't it? Yes. Yeah. That man was, I mean, 6-8 is no, you're no small fry, but Andre was, uh, giant amongst giants. Yeah, I mean, he made me look like a toothpick. It was, it was crazy. He was, he was crazy. He was a big man. I mean, his his hand was like the size of a baseball glove. You know, he'd covered my whole face with it. It was just crazy.

Big dude. How do you go from Calgary and training? Actually, I want to wind up back. You said you started taking a martial art. What did you start taking? I trained with Dwight Shear. Okay. So it's karate and then took some judo.

some jiu-jitsu and I've done a little bit of different styles throughout the years. But I started with Dwight Shire and Saskatoon, yeah, way back when. Are you still, do you still train? No, not really. I still do the weights. I still do stuff like that. I should have kept it up, but, you know, it's like, it's just one of those things. You know, if things start to hurt and you're like, okay, I'm, uh,

You know, you got good intentions and forget it. But I pull it out whenever I have to, you know, for doing fight scenes in the films and things like that. But dust it off a little bit and the way we go, you know. Well, how do you get, like when you start with Stu Hart and your training there, yeah. Did you do Stampede wrestling then? No, I never did. I've never had to wrestled in Canada.

Really? Special match in Canada my, my career. Really? Yeah, that is strange. Yeah, no, never have. And so I was training with Stu, and then the WWF came through. Red Bastine was the West Coast Booker for them, and he had training camp. And he did the training camp that Sting and the Road Warrior went through.

So I went through the camp just after them. Yeah. Well, I can ask you? Like when you do a camp like that, is it just wrestling moves or what goes into it? Yeah, I mean, all of that. It's like they teach you how to be a performer. You know, first of all, they want to make sure that you want to be there. And it's like with Stu, I mean, first thing, tip me into the dungeon.

Well, actually, he fed me and cooked me breakfast first. And then we went into the dungeon. Then he proceeded to double grapevine me and stretch me. And he goes, nah, kid, da. How do you like that? I'm like, oh my God, I'll be back tomorrow, you know. And so it was just they make sure you want to be there, you know, because it's not for the faint of heart.

It's a tough life. Pro wrestling is not easy. How so? Well, I mean, you're on the road 200, 300 days a year. You're lonely. You're in a different city every night. You're missing your family. You're missing your friends.

and you make a new group of friends on the road that you travel with. Got it had to have been exciting at the start, though. I mean, once you get over the loneliness of like, all right, I'm not seeing anybody, you get this group of people together and just go out and perform in front of big, small. Yeah, you got a lot of characters together and they're all beat up and you're like, oh god i don't want to go out and do that again then soon as you know you hear your music and the curtain opens and you go into the people shows on you know how did you how did you pick your first name uh how did i get my first name i think um i wrestle this i think the mighty yankee and

sky high lee in in oregon and um you know i i didn't really have a name and they were just like, you look like Sky Halley, we're going to call you, Sky Halley. I'm like, okay, you know, and that's what it was. And then I was the mighty Yankee for a while. And then, you know, I was like, I don't care what you call me, just send the checks. You know what I mean? Make sure they cash. How much money were you making back then?

You know, in the beginning, it's tough. I mean, you're not making a lot of money. at all, you know, but then when you start traveling the world and you go into the bigger promotions, you know, you're living, you're living okay. But then, you know, if you got an ex-wife involved, that changes everything too, you know. So I was doing good and then got a divorce and had to restart all over again. So, you know, hopefully you don't know how that goes, but I'm sure all our divorced guys out there and gals know so i've been i've been uh i don't know if it's fortunate it's fortunate the word maybe i i've i've got a good a good woman i got i she uh she gets me so

far anyways we're we're in the year 13 i think so she uh so far so good yeah congratulations well my second one i mean i had to have a second one to do it right the second time so uh now she's my partner in crime and and you know we have our production company together and she's the brains of the operation and I like to think I'm the old brawn. Do you enjoy having a production company? You know, it's a lot of work. It's a lot of work, but it was the fantastic thing about it for me and for us is it gives you a chance to showcase yourself. You know, I've done a lot of really cool roles. I've been blessed, you know, to be, Sabretooth and

The first X-Men, King Ajax and Troy. Probably when I mentioned to a couple of my buddies that you were coming on, they said, who's coming on? I said, remember X-Men? Which one? I'm like, come on it. The best one. Right? Like, it's not even close. And I'm like, you remember Sabretooth?

Now are we talking the good one or the bad one? I'm like, is there, yeah, the good one. And like, yeah, that guy was good. That guy was good. I think everybody was depressed when you weren't back on that role. So X-Men, that's the way I sold you when I had you coming on. Well, there we go. Thank you. I appreciate it.

Yeah, well, it was a kick-ass. Well, I mean, it was a kick-ass movie. And you did that character well. Oh, thank you. Yeah. You know, I mean, like I say, I've been very lucky and blessed. I mean, for the X-Men, King Ajax and Troy, Michael Myers and Rob Zombies, Halloween. You know, and then now coming out in the next.

probably a few months is Jupiter's legacy on Netflix. It's a TV series that I just did just before COVID hit. And I think we did about eight episodes. I'm in four of them. And I think the budget was over $100 million for the series. So it's a fantastic looking show. Who else is in that? Josh Dulele, Leslie Bibb.

Okay. Yeah, check it out on IMDB. There's a lot of really cool people. Yeah. No, for sure, for sure. Well, you know, you mentioned all these movies. Like going from training in probably what is, I just assume a $2 production. I'm assuming you've been to some pretty small venues, some pretty small.

gyms per se where it is not a hundred million dollar production to see how far like from one end of the spectrum to the next uh i'm always curious about the start because i think anybody listening oh yeah you're talking the next well yeah but there had to have been a story on how you led up to getting all these different uh roles you know you talk about you haunt my dreams with your role and Halloween man i tell you mike myers that is one creepy individual but i mean they're iconic roles And I'm always curious about to start and what you did to get to where you are. Yeah. Like I say, I was starting out from Saskatoon and I was like telling my friends, I'm like, I'm going to go do this.

I'm going to be a pro wrestler. Sorry, I unplug my computer. So I'm just trying to make sure it gets plugged back in and doesn't come to plug. So, you know, being that kid from Saskatchew, I'm like, I'm going to go do this. And everybody's like, yeah, right, you know. and that was actually one of my driving forces too. I knew I needed to do it to prove myself. And yeah, when you start out, man, in the pro wrestling ring,

you're getting beat up and slugging it out and getting a few bucks every night in front of 10 people sometimes. And you're like, oh, my God, is this ever going to get any better, you know? And you got a lot of years of that, And then when you walk through the curtain at the Tokyo Dome or the Pontiac Dome, it's a different ballgame. You know what I mean? And how I started my acting career is I was wrestling in Mexico.

And have you seen any of those Mexican wrestling movies where the guys are wearing the mask and that? They're kind of a little cheesy. I've seen some cheese. But the Reagan became late at night if you've been drinking a lot. You know what I mean? All right. So they go, okay,

hey, man, we want you to do this movie. And I said, well, first of all, you know, I don't speak Spanish very well.

And don't worry, we'll dub it. Okay. Well, what do you want me to do? Well, you're an antigalactic vampire that shoots laser beams through your fingers,

and it'll be great. Okay. So, uh, ends up I have three midget sidekicks, dressed up with Martians. now this is the 80s so don't judge I am this big intergalactic vampire

that shoots laser beams and I've got a pink fog that follows me everywhere I'm like what is this you know and I end up wrestling and chasing a woman Gloria Mayo who was a famous Mexican star

so that was my start in film, but I was like, you know, I'm not getting dropped on my head. I'm getting fed. I'm getting paid. This is pretty good. You know, I can stay at home for, you know, several days while we're filming. I got to like this. I think I'm going to transition into this stuff, you know.

And then I went from there to doing the Universal Action Pack, which was the Smoking and Abandon sequel with Brian Bloom. I did that. And then, you know, just kept going. And I've been lucky enough to make a career out of just doing movies my entire career. When you were done doing the Mexican movie, were you like, and that was crap? Like, or were you like, I thought it was pretty good, right? Like, I mean, I have no idea.

Like, when you look back now. I had no, I had no Volsbrite. I was like, God, this is not. Did you send it to all your friends and family, though? Like, you got to check this out. people what the name of it is, you know, because it's spelled wrong. But some of them have checked it out and go, oh, we

found it. I go, oh, great. You know, but it's basically just me walking around chasing people and beating people up. But, hey, you know, it is what it is. That's a hell of a start.

Yeah, you know, I mean, hey, it opened the door and from that and from with the rest of wrestling career, being able to do my own stunts and stuff like that, it's opened up doors. And here we are, you know, I've been doing it for quite a few years now. Yeah. If you, yeah, like, like, I assume being a personality in wrestling, transitioning to being on screen wasn't that big a deal per se. Yeah, I mean, it's, I ended up taking it

serious. So I did acting classes. I worked on things like that. Because in wrestling, you have your persona of being the big badass. But you also have to, in acting, open yourself up to be vulnerable. Because even if you are playing a bad guy, you're not all bad. You're not doing things because you want to be a bad guy. You're doing things because you think that they're right. you know and you have to believe that while you're doing it to make your character be real and seem real because you never do anything because you you know you want to be evil right well some some people do but most of the time you're doing it because you have your belief system and motives for doing something I would give you your belief system.

All I could think of is, I'm talking to the guy who played Mike Myers. That is the definition of pure evil. Well, yes. But, you know, the way I approach that role was it wasn't to be evil. It was my whole thing was trying to reconnect with my family. If you think about it, I mean, I'm chasing Lori. she's thinking that I'm trying to kill her and people just get in my way

from stopping me to get to Lori so I end up killing them because I have a goal in mind. Has playing that role I got to like when you YouTube you YouTube Tyler May the amount of interviews

that pop up for Mike Myers Halloween is I don't know you probably understand To find anything that wasn't that was actually you had to really do some digging. Right. Has that taken on like a life of its own for you? Like where you're just like... Yeah, it's, you know, it's funny because I'll be talking to people and they'll be like,

wait, you were saber-tooth? But you're Michael Myers. I go, well, you know, that's the thing about acting. You do... Multiple rows. You know? and then like I just did

playing with fire with John Cena where it's a comedy you know and people like we didn't know you were did comedy I go well you know I did do Joe Dirt back in the day I was in the first Joe Dirt

you were in Joe Dirt see there we go yeah I played Bundy I was a guy at the that farts and says I'm done with that Apple Corr you want that and then I get in the fight with him and I throw him and I pee on the fire and I burn up with toxic pee.

Yeah, that's me. What a career, right? Hey, man, if it pays the bills, right? It is what a career, right? That is true. It's some of the people you've got to work with is almost astounding then. Yeah, I've been, I've been very, very lucky and blessed in my career. you know, with working with all the people from X-Men to the people, all the people in Troy,

to the new stuff that I'm doing, you know, it's like, it's funny. It's like I was in, I was supposed to do the third lead in Scorpion King and go against Duane in the first one, but there was conflicting interest because I was doing an HBO show at the time, how to make a monster. And then they went in to do reshoots. And Chuck Russell said, hey, I want you to open up the movie with Duane. We're going to do this big scene and fight scene.

And I'm the guy that rides the chandelier. And it's funny because I was at Universal Studios walking in. And Rocky Johnson, Duane's dad came walking out. And he looks at me and goes, what are you doing here? And I said, I'm getting ready to work with your kid old man. And I'd work with him 15 years earlier in Yugoslavia. What?

Yeah. So, I mean, that's the kind of stuff that happens in this business, you know? And it's just, it's been a crazy life, crazy cool life. You're telling me you fought the Rock's dad in Yugoslavia? I never, I never wrestled with him. We were wrestling like. Right. On the same card.

On the same card. We got to know each other. Yeah. Yeah. I want to know what wrestling around the world's like. I've played hockey around the world. I got to know what wrestling in Yugoslavia is like. What is that like?

Well, that didn't quite turn out the way that was supposed to because this was right at the time when they had all those protests, you know? So we started our tour. We got like, I think we only. did like maybe one or two events. And then the government was starting to be overthrown. So we were stuck in our hotel for probably four or five days. We were running out of food. We started to go out and they're like not get back into the hotel because the president or prime minister or whatever they have over there was doing his speeches right across the street from our hotel.

So it was crazy mayhem. And then we ended up eventually having to get the U.S. government to get us on a plane to get out of there. So Yugoslavia wasn't as much fun as, say, wrestling in Japan where, you know, you get a 7.2 earthquake and your hotel shakes and all kinds of crazy stuff, you know. But the wrestling part's fun. Holy crap. I go back to when I look at, don't get me wrong, I want to hear all, you know, I want to hear about working with Brad Pitt and Troy.

Like that movie was kick ass. You're, you know, you get handed, you know, you get your ass handed to you, so to speak. Well, at the end, yeah, yeah. You're by the Hulk. By the Hulk. That's right. So you see, you saw Sabretooth against the Hulk. It's true.

It is true, isn't it? And if I would have been writing it, it would have had a different outcome. Oh, yeah? Yeah, because, you know, Ajax outlived Achilles in the Iliads in that. So, but, you know, hey, I wasn't Brad Pitt, so. Well, are any of us Brad Pitt? Well, Brad is. It's true.

What was Brad Pitt like? He's a fantastic guy. He's so down to earth. I mean, one of the coolest guys I've ever met. Yeah. Yeah. It's, you know, people, people, I just try, I get along with everybody, you know, man, I just trying to have fun. And my motto is if I'm not having fun, I don't want to be there.

So it's, I mean, we just had a lot of fun. It sounds like your career has been a lot of fun. That's honestly, when I read, when I first stumbled upon your name and I was like, oh, who's this guy? Click on it, right? Start reading. I'm like, wow. Like, I probably said it four times already. Like, the movies is one thing.

That's, that's super cool. The fact you've, like, wrestled all over the world is, I guess I come from the hockey world where that's, to me, that's like commonplace. You're probably gone, wrestlers have been wrestling all over the world for thousands of years for all I know, right? And hockey players have been all over the world playing hockey for a long time. And it just, I don't know, it doesn't surprise me anymore, right, that you played hockey in New Zealand.

And it's like, oh, yeah, I know a couple guys that do that, right? But hearing you talk about it and being over in these places wrestling, I just, I have to assume you walk in and there has to be like, when you think back on it, there must be a country. You bring up Japan a couple times where you walked in and you're like almost blown away, like, now this is cool. Yeah. I mean, it just, it's just so such an eye opener.

You're like as a kid you hear about people wrestling all over the world and when you're doing it, you're like, oh my God, you know. And it's like, as you know, some of the best stories come outside of the ring or off the ice, you know, or something that has happened from inside the ring that carries out. You know, it's like in South Africa, in Durbin, South Africa, we were wrestling with Gamma Singh who wrestled at the, stampede for a while. And it's an East Indian population, Durban, South Africa. And he got blood and left myself and David Sheldon, who was the angel of death in the ring. And we had for about 45 minutes probably about 30,000 people trying to kill us. They were throwing chairs at us.

We were stuck in the ring. It was, you know, it was crazy. You know, people were trying to come into the ring to kick our asses and we're just fighting them off. And it was like, it was crazy. And then finally, gunshot rang out and a female officer came running down from the stands. And she just, follow me right now. Get out of here. You know, you're going to get killed.

So she escorted us back to the dressing rooms where we were stuck for about another hour after that. So, yeah, there's, I got a few stories. after after that happens are you like maybe i need to change my career or were you just like man that was that was something else that was that was crazy yeah they wanted us to go back next weekend and we're like no no we're not going back there no what was traveling with a group of guys to different countries like that i mean were you guys uh out on the town every night or were you Were you just like, I don't know, were you well-tuned athletes that were, you know, meditating and getting ready for the big show. Yeah, we were well-tuned on where the next bar was, you know, it's just like, it depends on who you travel with and where you're traveling, you know.

It's like in Japan, I was lucky enough to be over there with, you know, Dr. Desti, Williams and Davey Boy and Dynamite and that. So I got to hang out with some of those guys and they got they showed me The finer places because they'd been there for several times, you know And it's just Every place is a different place like like you know you know it's you go to a different city It's you find the things to do and pass the time until you got to do your thing and then you get out You've mentioned some of the crazier stories on the maybe the negative side of it.

You must have a couple of places that you just like, I could hang my hat here. Like this is a fun place to wrestle them. Oh, wow. Yeah. I mean, shoot, I just thinking of Cape Town, South Africa. South Africa?

Beautiful city. Some of the best food I've ever had in my life. You know? And that was back probably early 90s, beginning of late 80s. and Japan was like Germany was really nice, you know. We stayed at a few castles over there. It's just you get to see things, you know,

and in that moment you're not really appreciating it as much as you should. So to any young person that gets to travel the world and do what they want to do, take it in and enjoy it, you know? Just absorb it. Because time comes when you're done and you're moving on, you know what I mean? I know exactly what you mean. Because I think back to, well, my travel, you're too young to understand, I think, right? Like when you're young, like you just, it's hard to, and I'm not old by any stretch of imagination.

I just now with kids. Well, there are my eyes. Fair enough. Absolutely. But I mean, but at the end of the day, a little bit of age gives you a little more perspective. That is true. When you're sitting there and you're, you know, 18, 19 years old, even, hell, I came back

when I was 26, in that short span, you just, you kind of just think you're going to be able to do that for all the time. And then all of a sudden, time catches up. Yeah, you feel like it's never going to end, you know? And then then you're like, wait a minute. You know, so. But then luckily, we get to move. move on to the next phase and do, you know, do other things.

Luckily, I was lucky enough to transition into the film. You know, when you, when you watched The Rock go from wrestler to, I don't know, what do we call that absolute stardom? I have no idea. Yeah. As a, as a wrestler, he was electrifying, right? Like he was somebody you wanted to tune into every single time he was. talking. And then in his movies, though, like, not like, I don't know. I don't know. If the,

if the guy turned out to be the president of the United States in four years, I don't know if it would surprise that many people. Right. Yeah. It's, I mean, he has had a crazy, crazy, fantastic career, you know, and, and he's, he's got the look, man. He's got the charisma. And he's, he's doing his thing. I personally wouldn't want to be that famous because, you know, you talk to those guys and they go, yeah, I used to be able to do something. Now they can't even go get their own groceries, you know. That's something, I don't know that I'd want to be that famous. That might be a little over the top.

Huh? That might be a little over the top. Yeah, you know, I mean, when you can't go get your own groceries or anything like that, it's kind of like, I don't know. Well, I was listening to. I'm doing just fine just where I am. You know what I mean? No, that's cool, though.

I think it was, I was listening to Matthew McConaughey. He was being interviewed by Jordan Peterson. And he was talking about his kid wanted to see a fire truck. And he had to weigh whether he takes him to see a fire truck and the mob of media that's going to come around it or sheltering him from the media. And then he doesn't get to see the fire truck, right? Right. I'm like, yeah. That's almost ambient itself, right?

I can't imagine. Yeah. Yep. It's craziness. Let's talk about a couple of your movies. You mentioned right at the start, getting your start in the Mexican movies. Did it just, as soon as he did one, did it just come easy? Yes and no.

I mean, like for my size, it's a very specific role, right? I'm always going to be playing the big, bad guy. but that's why I started my own production company, Maine Entertainment. And we've so far put out two pictures because I wanted to expand my acting, right? We put out, first one was compound fracture, and we just released in April, Penn and Slane.

So if all your viewers haven't seen it, please check it out. They're out on the platforms right now. That's compound fracture and Pennance Lane. We're working on a TV series, right now called The Last Spartan. So just trying to keep busy and create and do things like that, you know. And enjoying it.

Yeah. Yeah, trying to. And I've got another comedy that I'm working on writing right now, though, was writing this morning that I've got to get back to you pretty soon. When you talk about, is that something you've always done, writing stories and like writing things? Or is that something that you've kind of grown into? I've grown into it. I've always been very visual, you know, and I've been like the idea guy.

My wife was editor-in-chief of Top Cow comic books for 10 years, and she was with radical and a bunch of other things. And so they did The Wanted and Witchblade and did the Hercules movie with The Rock and stuff like that. So, and she's, she's always been in that kind of writing, acting field and, and stuff like that. So I'll, I, for our first couple of films, it'd be like, we sit down, talk about it and we have ideas, throw them around. I go, oh, this would be cool, you know, and she's the one to kind of piece it together. But now I'm starting to figure out the format of, of actually writing a script and getting it down. And there's, there's quite a bit to it.

You know, it's kind of like a natural, next progression. for me from what I've been doing, like the wrestling and then into the, then to get into the acting, I started studying the acting and then boom, now doing this. And so it's just natural transgression through my life, you know.

I tell you what, it's been, uh, I bet you're going to be, I think you're going to be successful. I just, your story the way it goes, I mean, it's just been a nice little progression there. And every time a door opens,

you seem to seize the opportunity. and carry on. Yeah, I mean, I just, like I say, I just want to have fun and just keep doing what I love. I mean, there's nothing for me better than being on set. I'm like a kid in a candy store when I'm on a movie set, you know, it's just I just love it. That's what I live for in any aspect. If I'm producing or, you know, acting, I just love being on set. It's just the vibe, the feeling of creating something and putting something together.

is just fantastic and being able to tell a story. That's super cool. Well, I won't, you mentioned that you got to get things going back the other way and you got stuff on the go this afternoon. I don't want to keep you too long. So let's slide into the final five questions. I do a final segment here, the Crude Master Final Five. Shout out to Heath and Tracy McDonald, supporters of the podcast since the very beginning.

It's just five questions, long or short as you want to go, Tyler. The first one I always ask is if you could sit down with anyone like I'm doing and pick between their ears and try and grab some of their stories, some of their wisdom, who would you want? I mean, I'd love to sit down with Steven Spielberg. I'd love to sit down and really pick Arnold's brain about how he did it. You know, I guess just to anybody like that, that I really, really admire that has done it, you know, to see how they do it and whether they do it differently at all from what they've done. Yeah. No, I get that. It's always interesting to see and hear how people earn their success. Yeah. You know, it's like with acting, I mean, everybody comes into it differently. There's some people that are classically and, I mean, trained like a Ian McKellen from X-Men, I come into the door from a wrestling perspective and boom, you know.

So it's like, and I've been just very lucky to be able to learn from those people too, you know? I mean, I was able to sit down and talk with Ian on the set of X-Men a lot. And he taught me a lot, you know, and one of the biggest things that he told me about acting was less is more, my dear boy, less is more. And always check for boogers because they're big on the big screen. Did he actually say that? He said that. He said that.

And then it's funny because we were at the premiere of X-Men. And Ian just kind of, I was sitting right behind him and he kind of just closed his eyes and turns around and goes, see what I mean, my dear boy? Because he had one for a little bit. so yeah I gotta be honest I've watched a lot of movies in my day I don't know if I've ever picked up

I don't know if I ever stared at anyone's nose obviously that is something that you worry about as an actor yeah well you know as an actor you hope that they're watching other things and looking at other things besides whether you got a booger or not but you know

if you've blown a big snobble or something but you know it happens you know if you're in the moment and stuff. It's being human. Very much so. If you could start in a movie tomorrow and be cast with one other person to be the co-star, so to speak, who would you want as your co-star?

Oh, wow. You know, like I said, growing up watching Schwarzenegger and Stallone and them, I'd love to do something with those guys. What's your favorite? What's your favorite Arnie or Stallone? show. Oh, I mean, Conan, the Terminator movies. Yeah, yeah. The Rambo, you know. Have you ever done, have you ever done a movie like Arnie, though, where he's the Terminator and he utters like, what, like three words the entire movie? Uh, I was Michael Myers, right? Oh, yeah, duh,

duh, duh. I am actually the only Michael Myers that actually that said a word. And, and, And I think at the end of the second one, in probably the director's cut, I say to Loomis die as I kill him. No kidding. Actually, that's a very good point. I just kind of, that just kind of left my brain for a bit. Is that hard to do when you, when you just, all you got is your actions, you got no words. There's nothing. Yeah, it's just physicality.

And you, you can't even use your face. I mean, like, yeah. It's, it was all with the eyes and the head tilt. and the, you know, and just portraying that. And luckily I had wrestled. And so the physicality of that I could bring forth. Yeah. Yeah.

Present the character. And it was funny because I got to know the editor real well. He ended up adding one of our movies. And he said, man, I thought that you guys had different masks with different emotions because it really looked like your face was changing in the mask and stuff. And it goes, but it was just your eyes, you know, and the way you held. your head and so it's a big compliment to be told something like that from one of the top editors. Absolutely.

Yeah. If you could have a guy out of the WWE now as your tag team partner and you came back for a Thursday night Smackdown, so to speak, or something, who would you take? Oh man Boy that's a That's a good question I don't really watch that much now But I'd have to say I'd probably go with the big show

Yeah If he's still If he's still working You know Because I'd just throw him in there And go go get him Go get him tag I'd just come in and wrap it up

At the end You know what I mean If If you're going to take one or have one celebrity come out with you on a night on the town, who would you want? Who would be the best time? Boy, that's a tough question. Really? That's a tough question. Like, I mean, if I, because usually when you meet these people or you're out with them, it's out like the Golden Globes or things like that, you know, and it's getting pretty wild and crazy.

but, you know? Let me rephrase it then. All right. What one of your maybe cast members who you've worked? Do you think would be fun to go out on a night on the town with? Well, Ian's pretty crazy. Ian McKellen's pretty crazy. Is he?

Yeah, he likes to have fun. Brad was a lot of fun to hang around with. But didn't see. You're talking. about you're getting that mob scene going there too, you know? I mean, if you'd rather, you'd rather just avoid that. Yeah, I mean, you get it, you get it to a certain degree, but if you go someone like that, you're going to go crazy, you know, I mean, it'd be like, it'd be like hanging around with like a Mario Lemieux or something in the hockey world or something.

Now you're talking. Now you're talking, hey? You know? I guess I don't even, I guess, I guess I just, I wipe that clean. I'm thinking of a world where people are just going to interact normally and you just get to go party with Brad Pitt and the world isn't going to go crazy around him. That's the way my brain looks at it. Like, what it would it be like to just party with Brad Pitt? Like, would that be fun or would Ian McKellarley,

you know what I mean? Like that's, I guess, the way to look at it. But in the real world, that's not how it happened. Because as soon as you walked in, it would be an absolute shit show, wouldn't it? Yeah, yeah. You know, so it's, So I look at it as

Who would I have the best time with if we were out doing something, you know? Yeah. And that's a hard question to answer. So but there's, you know, and it's like You when you're filming and stuff like this, you'd be at, say if you were filming on location, we'd be at the hotel bar drinking and having a good time, you know? And there's lots of people, I mean, that.

That's got to be some fun nights. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Especially if you don't have to work in the morning. You know? For sure. But you're kind of like secluded and you got all these like interesting characters from all

over the world in a certain little spot, just having a couple sassaparillas and you just get to kind of tell some stories. I bet that is a pretty cool experience. Yeah. You know, like I mean like in Malta when we were filming Troy, I mean, it would be Vincent Regan, myself and Garrett Headland. going out to have a good time, you know, and we would have a good time, you know. Your final one before I let you go is, what's one lesson you've learned along the way? Wow. Enjoy the moment and respect everyone.

So there's two. That's cool. That's certainly come off, Tyler. I appreciate you sitting down with me. it didn't disappoint. I'll leave you with that because I was curious, you know, watching your movies and then understanding where you're from so close to my hometown. I was wondering, you know, what's a Saskatchewan boy who's been down south now for

some time going to be like? And it's been very, very enjoyable. I appreciate you carving out a little bit of time for me. Yeah, no problem. I'm still that dumbass Saskatchewan boy, you know, that was just lucky enough to go have some fun. What do they say you could take the boy out of Saskatchewan, but you can't take the Saskatchewan out of the boy. There you go.

Yeah, you know, and it, it, it, you always got to remember where you come from, you know. And we all put our pants on the same way. And it's just, like I say, try and have as much fun as you can doing it within reason. 100%. Well, thanks again. Hey, my pleasure, man. Thanks for having me on. and tell everybody to check out main entertainment

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