While in attendance at AEW Revolution, “Queen of the Ring” star Damaris Lewis spoke with AEW broadcaster Tony Schiavone about what she discovered about skilled wrestling through her filming experience. In response to Lewis, she learned that wrestlers knew they were going to win before anybody else — a press release that many fans and pundits viewed as a violation of kayfabe.
AEW’s Kamille, who stars as June Byers within the film, has since clarified that Lewis’ comments weren’t a professional wrestling spoiler, but fairly a mentality. Lewis later reiterated that herself during an appearance on “Busted Open Radio.”
“Firstly, I completely take accountability for a way it got here out. That was not the way it was intended, so I’m sorry if it got here out way fallacious,” Lewis said. “Through the course of our press tour, I have been reiterating the statement that I learned from pro wrestlers that you simply guys carry something in you that claims on a regular basis ‘I’m gonna win, I’m gonna win, I’m gonna win.’ It has been incredibly inspiring to me. Having a really short time period to take into consideration a solution in the sector, that is what got here out of my mouth.”
Lewis moreover noted that she deeply respects the game of skilled wrestling, because it is “tough,” with performers putting themselves susceptible to injury as well. In “Queen of the Ring,” Lewis portrays Babs Wingo, a women’s skilled wrestler of the National Wrestling Alliance throughout the Nineteen Fifties and 60s.
“I’ll say it again, I’m so sorry if it got here off that way,” Lewis said. “But such as you said, you gotta know the home you are in. I do know these fans love their sport and that they were defending their sport, so I can not be mad.”
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