All Elite Wrestling’s Chris Jericho is a character in the brand new Terrifier 2 movie that was just released in theaters today.
Ring of Honor World Champion Chris Jericho recently sat down with Tyler Treese of ComingSoon.net to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked about his recent role in the horror movie Terrifier 2 and filming a scene inside a mental institution, Jericho said it was very creepy because they filmed it in October at three in the morning.
“Well, it was weird too because it was October, and it was about three in the morning, so it was cold. The institution was, just like you said, it was creepy. It wasn’t like filthy, but it wasn’t like the cleanest of places. It just really fit the vibe of Terrifier,” Chris Jericho said. “Like I said, it just was a gritty location, and that scene was actually a lot longer, which led to the actual ending of movie. Another horror movie came out in the same timeframe, over the last year, that had the same ending, so we had to recut it, and re-shoot it. So, it was actually a longer scene than that. But either way, it was really cool to be involved and just see all the passion of the people behind this project and it leaves the door wide open for Terrifier 3 for me.”
When asked if he draws any inspiration from the horror movie genre when it comes to his Painmaker character, Jericho said it wasn’t influenced by a movie but more along the vibes of what a crazy killer would look like.
“Well, so when I went back to Japan and had the match with old WWE Chris Jericho and it didn’t really fit the vibe of what I wanted to do, and it just, it was much more of a brutal, violent attitude that I had. I just thought, well what does serial killer look like if he was a pro wrestler? That’s kind of how Painmaker became a thing, was just my kind of interpretation of, let’s say a serial killer had a wrestling match, what would he do? What would he look like, how would he act? And that’s where the Painmaker came from,” Chris Jericho said. “So it is more, not really influenced by a movie per se, but influenced by that vibe of like, what would a killer look like? What would he feel like? What would he do? And that kinda really helped get that character up and rolling. There’s much more of a murderous intent with the Painmaker, which is why any time I have some kind of a really violent death match sort of a thing, that’s when you’ll see the Painmaker.”
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