Charlotte Flair loves to play the heel role for the WWE Universe.
SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair recently sat down with Ariel Helwani of WWE on BT Sport to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked if she prefers playing a face or a heel, Flair said she prefers to work as a heel and explained why she just doesn’t see herself as a convincing babyface wrestler.
“Anytime I try being a face, I think that there’s really nothing in the character other than I have a great relationship with my dad like the father-daughter relationship that people necessarily can relate to. Like when I come across like understand me or this was hard for me, it just comes across as like whining or complaining, or I’m like, ‘No, I really feel this way.’ It doesn’t come across as endearing. So I’ve found like, even though I’m trying to open up and be relatable to the audience,” Charlotte explained, “I don’t think the audience sees it that way. It comes across as entitled. When that’s not really how it’s supposed to be portrayed. So anytime I’ve tried to do that as a face. I think it just comes across as like a cry baby…just whining.”
When asked if she was upset about last year’s Money in the Bank Premium Live Event when the crowd hijacked her match with Rhea Ripley with chants for Becky Lynch, Flair said that she wasn’t and believes that she elicits that type of response from the WWE Universe.
“No, with the crowd of Money in the Bank. I truly believe I elicit that response from them to do that with Becky [Lynch] because of our history,” Charlotte Flair said. “So I think the crowd was partially doing that because it was me. And then also, it didn’t help that she’d been gone for how long? A year, year and a half? And she posted a picture outside the venue. So the fans wanted her; they hadn’t seen her. So I was like, Eff you. You’re going to respect Rhea [Ripley], you’re going to respect me, and you’re going to watch this match. And it went from those chants to this is awesome.
“So I came back with a little more of an edge — like four years ago? Oh my God. Now I can be more in the moment when I’m in the ring. And I think that matters so much more as a performer. Like you’re just going with it and feeling it and going off the audience. Whereas like, a couple of years ago, I was like, it has to be ABCDE like now; you just go with it. And in that moment when I heard that, it was just I didn’t even [think], am I gonna get in trouble for this? Which I did. It was is inappropriate. That is not the right way to handle things. But if you play a bad guy on television, go for it! So I just feel like one. It was like a perfect storm. They wanted to see her; they thought she was there. And it was me.”
When asked if Becky Lynch posting that photo on social media before the event annoyed her, Flair admitted that it didn’t because she would have done the same thing.
“No, I’d do the same thing,” Charlotte Flair admitted. “As a performer, it’s the hype. I think anyone in her position would. What she means to the WWE Universe and like, is she coming back tonight? Is she not? It was the first time we had a live audience since COVID. So they were ready to chant what they wanted.”
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