Post by héad.casé on Jul 13, 2020 12:08:01 GMT -5
"I had never been a backstage interviewer before in my life. I was terrified of the red light. The first time that I ever did a backstage interview, I was so scared. I said 'James Ellis' instead of James Ellsworth. I clearly knew his name, but I was terrified. This is live. It's happening live. I was always told I had too much personality, and I had to dial it down. I was told it's not about the interviewer. It's about the person being interviewed. I had a lot of conflict"
"I have so much personality, and I feel like my personality could help put over what the talent is saying, but it wasn't about you. It was about the talent. The light shined on the talent, so you have to ask your question and, kind of, don't show facial expressions. Let their answers make the viewer have a certain sentiment or feeling. I wasn't allowed to, like, nod or do certain things like that. I felt also too like I had to get the question exactly verbatim how it was written or the world was gonna end. Interviewing wasn't my thing, I guess. I don't know."
"I was only doing as I was told,. But it's kind of fun now being able to be myself. People are like, 'Whoa. She is not a robot.' I'm like, 'No, I'm not a robot'.
"If you take a second to get to know me, I do have a personality. If you are a true fan and had been to a live event, you knew that wasn't me. So, it's different how things translate, but I'm the type of person, like, if you don't know me before you ever speak to me, you will remember me after you leave."
"There's was this one interview I did with Mojo Rawley when he had won the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, and I had to say like, 'No, not really'. He was like, 'Can you feel it Dasha? Can you feel it?' Because you know Mojo's very expressive, and I literally had to look at him straight in the face and be like, 'No, not really.' It was one of the hardest, most silly things. So many memes were made after it.
"To this day, I don't event know. I asked, 'Am I supposed to be cheeky?' They're like, 'No, you just look at him straight dead in the face and say no, not really.'"
"Renee Young always told me, obviously, follow the directions that they're giving you. Once you, kind of, build their trust, then you'll get a little bit more leeway because Renee is one of those that, like when she was doing backstage interviews, she was allowed to have emotions. She was allowed to nod. They trusted her, and she earned that trust.
"I was so new. I didn't have that trust. I had to earn that trust, for me, I always struggled with I wouldn't say this this way or I wouldn't write this this way. She's like, well, sometimes you just have to bite the bullet, and just do it, and prove to them that they can trust you and that aspect of it. It is what it is."
Source: Talk is Jericho
"I have so much personality, and I feel like my personality could help put over what the talent is saying, but it wasn't about you. It was about the talent. The light shined on the talent, so you have to ask your question and, kind of, don't show facial expressions. Let their answers make the viewer have a certain sentiment or feeling. I wasn't allowed to, like, nod or do certain things like that. I felt also too like I had to get the question exactly verbatim how it was written or the world was gonna end. Interviewing wasn't my thing, I guess. I don't know."
"I was only doing as I was told,. But it's kind of fun now being able to be myself. People are like, 'Whoa. She is not a robot.' I'm like, 'No, I'm not a robot'.
"If you take a second to get to know me, I do have a personality. If you are a true fan and had been to a live event, you knew that wasn't me. So, it's different how things translate, but I'm the type of person, like, if you don't know me before you ever speak to me, you will remember me after you leave."
"There's was this one interview I did with Mojo Rawley when he had won the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, and I had to say like, 'No, not really'. He was like, 'Can you feel it Dasha? Can you feel it?' Because you know Mojo's very expressive, and I literally had to look at him straight in the face and be like, 'No, not really.' It was one of the hardest, most silly things. So many memes were made after it.
"To this day, I don't event know. I asked, 'Am I supposed to be cheeky?' They're like, 'No, you just look at him straight dead in the face and say no, not really.'"
"Renee Young always told me, obviously, follow the directions that they're giving you. Once you, kind of, build their trust, then you'll get a little bit more leeway because Renee is one of those that, like when she was doing backstage interviews, she was allowed to have emotions. She was allowed to nod. They trusted her, and she earned that trust.
"I was so new. I didn't have that trust. I had to earn that trust, for me, I always struggled with I wouldn't say this this way or I wouldn't write this this way. She's like, well, sometimes you just have to bite the bullet, and just do it, and prove to them that they can trust you and that aspect of it. It is what it is."
Source: Talk is Jericho