Sheamus Discusses being Able to Change Your Look, Getting to Work With Kids, More

– Sheamus recently spoke with thewhig.com, here the highlights…

On Changing And Embracing New Looks: “You’ve got to keep changing it up, otherwise it gets boring,” the six-foot-three Sheamus answered. “In fairness, I didn’t change or alter the look — I only altered my gear — for the first couple of years,” he qualified. “You’re only talking in the last two or three years that change with the Mohawk and the beads and stuff. But it’s good to change it, keeping it fresh. We’re on so much television now, people see so much of us. It’s not like the old days, where you’d be on TV once in a blue moon, or Saturday Night’s Main Event. You’re on all the time, so it’s good to keep it fresh, even if it’s just for yourself, to keep it interesting for yourself.”

On The Hassle to Maintain a Look: “Every time I got home, I had to get the hair cut — my hair grows pretty quick — and then I had to go to this African braiding place, where she used to twist the skin off me face, like Hellraiser, the movie. It would be like hooks going into me face, I’m pulling them off. It was literally like, she got to looking at me three or four times, ‘Are ye alright?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’m grand. Just keep going. Don’t stop, don’t stop.’ It was brutal. It was such stress going from one to the other. Every weekend I had to get them done. I do not miss them, just for that situation alone.”

On Getting to Work With Kids: “You have to have time for the kids,” he said, harkening back to his own experiences of being let down by his soccer heroes as a kid. “I was let down so many times as a kid, with football, soccer stars, football stars coming back home. I remember queuing up for three hours for an autograph for this football player who played for Liverpool, and I was so pumped, I didn’t sleep the night before. I got in line. I walked up and I wanted to tell him he was a big inspiration, I loved him. He didn’t even look up at me one time. He scribbled on a piece of paper and just threw it at me.”