In an interview with ScreenRant, Jay Karas, the director of the WWE Studios & Netflix movie “The Main Event” discussed working with WWE wrestlers for the movie.

“I mean, The Miz has been in films before, but for a lot of them, it was their first filming experience outside of the actual wrestling stuff that they do, so these guys are performers, they go out in front of a crowd, they’re performing and it is acting in putting on a performance, but in terms of the mechanics of being on a single camera film environment and also in terms of delivering specific comedy, it was a learning curve, but it was so quick because again, they’re athletes and they’re performers, so anything that they didn’t know, they got in like three seconds. In terms of getting the comedy, we would just have very specific conversations about what the tone of the joke was and they were all very direct-able.”

The interview is available in full at this link.