Killer Kross and Scarlett Bordeaux are two of the most creative personalities right now in professional wrestling.
Former WWE Superstars Killer Kross and Scarlett Bordeaux recently sat down with WrestleZone Managing Editor Bill Pritchard to discuss a wide variety of subjects. Asked about some of the more subtle inspirations for their characters, Kross revealed that Scarlett drew inspiration from the character Lady Gaga played on American Horror Story.
“Well, I know for her The Countess from American Horror Story, Lady Gaga,” Killer Kross shared.
Scarlett also name-dropped Elizabeth Hurley from the movie Bedazzled as a big inspiration for The Smokeshow character she utilized in IMPACT Wrestling.
“Bedazzled Elizabeth Hurley’s character is massive,” Scarlett shared. “That was like a big Smokeshow character-based work that I wanted to model after and John Maroney from 30 Rock. For [Kross], Patrick Bateman.”
Killer Kross said he studied Patrick Bateman from American Psycho for a while and also credited the movies Dark City and Watchmen for helping to inspire the ‘Tick Tock’ Doomsday character.
“Patrick Bateman from American Psycho was a very interesting character piece that I studied for a while,” Killer Kross said. “Bronson, Tom Hardy, it’s an obscure film I guess now, but Dark City [by Alex Proyas], but he was the same one who did The Crow. We’re very careful not to blatantly rip anything off. We all can’t help but be inspired by different things that we see. We kind of take over inspired by and put it through our own interpretation.
“But I don’t know. I mean, the whole tick-tock thing always came from my fascination with Watchmen. They played on the Richard Nixon administration era, which is a strange era that we went through anyways, where they had the doomsday clock on TV, which I talked about, I thought that was such a strange notion, but that actually really happened. They would terrorize people — I don’t know if that was the intention, but they put this clock on TV and people would turn their television on, they’d sit there and they’d scare the crap out of themselves going, ‘it’s one more minute to midnight. We’re going to be in this nuclear warfare.’
“I just thought I can’t imagine us doing that right now. What that would do to people, and I thought, that’s really a terrifying notion. So I took [aspects] of that. And I played that into the character of letting people know this is a super villain who’s morbidly obsessed with time, and he’s always telling people the clock is ticking. There’s this ass whipping coming, and it’s going to be apocalyptic, and it’s going to be on your head. So tuck your chin. I guess I took aspects of perhaps how I see combat violence happening and folded that into theatricality.”
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