‘Thrillbilly’ Silas Mason and Pollo Del Mar spoke with WrestleZone Managing Editor Bill Pritchard ahead of the 2023 NWA Crockett Cup. Mason (cornered by Del Mar) challenged EC3 for the NWA National Heavyweight Championship at the event.
During the conversation, Thrillbilly Silas Mason spoke about playing Terry Gordy in The Iron Claw, the upcoming biographical sports film about the rise and fall of the Von Erich wrestling family.
“I get to play — did play, we already wrapped filming — but I played my favorite wrestler. The best wrestler, in my opinion, is Terry Funk. There’s levels to this, and Funk is God, brother. But Terry Gordy is my personal favorite wrestler,” Thrillbilly explained. “He’s someone I’ve always modeled my stylings in the ring after. We have similar body types; big guys that can move and put a hurtin’ on people. So that’s who I was playing.
“Zac Efron called me personally and he said, ‘Thrill, we need you.’ I said, ‘Zac, let me check my schedule. Let me see what I’ve got going on.’ Turns out I had a few free weeks in November. We went down to Baton Rouge — that’s French for you — Louisiana and we filmed the whole movie.
“Chavo Guerrero was the coordinator on that. He basically told us, ‘Don’t hurt these acting people too too bad.’ We still put a hurtin’ on a couple of ‘em, there’s a guy that still has to walk around with a brace on his arm but it’s a tough business, man. If you don’t want to be in it, get out. If you want to make a movie about it,” he noted, “you’re going to take some lumps too. That’s why I respect those guys that I was in there with, because they took their lumps and took it seriously.”
Watch our full interview with ‘Thrillbilly’ Silas Mason and Pollo Del Mar below:
