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Brian Cage Reveals How He Got Cast in Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day
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AEW and ROH wrestler Brian Cage recently sat down with Insight with Chris Van Vliet to discuss appearing in the new Steven Spielberg movie, Disclosure Day, revealing how he got cast in the movie. Below are some highlights from Insight:
Brian Cage on How He Got Cast in Disclosure Day
“So Chavo [Guerrero] hits me up for this TV show…”
On Chavo Guerrero Being the Liaison for Wrestling in Hollywood
“He’s like the liaison for wrestling in Hollywood. So, he hits me up for this TV show. It doesn’t happen. Well, it was gonna happen. It gets postponed. And then he goes, ‘Hey, I think you would fit really great for this role. Contact this guy and get him everything he wants.’ So I email him. I get everything he requests. Typical kind of like audition situation, where after a few weeks go by, you don’t hear anything, whatever. Easy come, easy go. So I’m in the gym, and all of a sudden, I get an email, and it’s, ‘Hey, I just sat down and watched everything with the director. He absolutely loves you, your look, your persona, your charisma, and everything you do. He says you’re exactly perfect, and exactly what he wants.’ Great email to get. And he goes, give me a call immediately. So I call him, and again, I don’t even know what the project is.”
On Not Knowing It Was a Steven Spielberg Project
“Nothing. [They say] ‘Yeah, I was watching it, and Steven loves you, loves you. He just wants you on the set, blah blah blah.’ He keeps saying, Steven, I go, ‘Who’s Steven?’ He goes, ‘Oh, the director, Steven Spielberg.’ I went, wait, what? Steven Spielberg’s watching my stuff and is like, ‘That’s it, I need Brian Cage in my movie.’ I go, ‘This is amazing.’ He goes, ‘[Spielberg] likes you so much, we want you to work somebody else, preferably another big guy that looks a different type of big than you. But instead of casting it, we figured he just wants you, so you could just pick whoever you want.’ So I was like, what about my buddy Lance [Archer]? Because he was in some of the photos they sent, my tag partner, and he goes, ‘Oh yeah, we did see him. We thought he looked good.’ I go, I mean, I’m fine with that. They’re okay. So then that’s how Lance got in the movie, too.”
Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is now playing in theaters. You can read 411’s official review of the movie RIGHT HERE.
