Luke Hawx Recalls Working On Wrong Side Of Town On Stunt Team

Luke Hawx’ first film on a stunt team was Wrong Side Of Town, and he recently looked back on that movie. The 2010 straight-to-video film starred a several wrestling talent including Rob Van Dam, Dave Bautista, and Viscera, and Hawx spoke with Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp about the movie. You can see highlights below:

On the film being written for RVD: “So that was my first SAG film is me, Batista, and Rob Van Dam. Well, you know the whole story behind that, right? That was the whole problem. So I’ll give you an inside scoop right here, right here on Fightful. Well, this is perfect then. This is perfect then. So that movie was written for Rob Van Dam. The director is one of Rob’s really good friends. Everything was based around Rob and it was Batista’s first movie, his first opportunity. It was also my first SAG movie, which was cool.”

On working on the film: “Viscera was in it. Yeah. So I helped with the stunts. I helped coordinate some of the scenes with the stunts. My stunt coordinator who broke me into business, Phil O’Dell, he was the coordinator for that film. So it only fit that you know they threw me in. But the crazy thing about that was when it went into post-production, I don’t remember what network it was was, do you remember? Lionsgate? Well, whoever it was, whatever production company it was Batista was the bigger wrestling star at the time. So they said, ‘We’re going to put him front and center, and make him the star of it on paper.’ Which wasn’t cool, you know what I mean? It was good for Batista, you know what I mean? You can’t fault the guy for getting that opportunity.”

On RVD: “100%, 100%. But, Rob, I’m thankful for Rob. Rob’s a great guy, a good friend and I was really happy that Rob got the opportunity to star in his own movie and do a few more films. I forgot Ja Rule was in it. I was in the mood with Ja Rule. It’s so funny. You forget all the people that you work with and all the things you’ve done and just odd stuff, right? So that’s what I’m thankful for about film, is I got to transfer a lot of wrestling guys over into film and give those guys opportunities and take them to walk the red carpets and stuff and that’s been so cool.”