An Interview with Stone Cold Steve Austin

Below, Stone Cold Steve Austin talks about his last movie, The Condemned:

On using his WWE persona for The Condemned:
"This is my first major part in a movie and I just tried to do as good a job as I possibly could. I wasn't dialogue heavy in The Condemned - we know that - and I hired an acting coach. I tried to be as far away from Stone Cold Steve Austin as I could and a lot of people said it was just an overgrown version of Stone Cold. I disagree.

It was light-years away from that... I think that with anything that you do, you get better with repetition -- the same with wrestling and acting. I have a long way to go and, hopefully, I'll get more swings at the plate to get a chance to try and improve."

Austin on getting involved with the project:
"The script came to me in Los Angeles. An agent brought it to me and I took it to Vince [McMahon], and he liked it. It wasn't that great of a script in the beginning and Scott Wiper re-wrote it nine times to get it to its final stages.

Then he started tailoring it to me towards the end. But when the script originally came to me, they wanted me to play the part of Ewan McStarley, which Vinnie Jones played. But once Vince got behind it, I played Jack Conrad and that's pretty much how it all came about.

As for the humor in the film, in my personal life I just laugh my head off all day. If you're going to get a laugh out of The Condemned, it had to be dry, dead pan humor because there wasn't a whole lot of funny 'ha, ha' situations."

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