While the film depicts Saraya and Zak getting their tryout (and meeting The Rock) at Smackdown Live; in reality, WWE wouldn't rebrand Smackdown as a live show until 2016. The film was produced by former wrestler and now actor The Rock, who stars as himself in the film, which was also co-produced by WWE studios. Otherwise, Fighting With My Family has fun portraying the low-budget world of independent British wrestling where WAW puts on shows in convention centers and halls in front of dozens of paying customers. In an interview at the Sundance Film Festival, she told The Wrap's Beatrice Verhoeven: “It’s wonderful — obviously I didn’t know I was going to have a movie made about my life at the age of 26, so it’s definitely a surreal moment. After FCW became NXT, Paige became the first NXT Women's Champion; she defended the title in a highly-praised match against Emma in the first NXT Takeover pay-per-view, NXT Takeover: Arrival, in February 2014.

While the actors perform some of their own stunts, Tessa Blanchard, a pro-wrestler and the daughter of wrestling legend Tully Blanchard, was the stuntwoman who performed Paige's more challenging wrestling moves. Florence Pugh was coached by The Rock and a few other wrestlers. Meet Kelsey Asbille, 'Fargo' Season 4 Episode 3 Recap: American Pie, 'Ratched' Co-Creator Evan Romansky Has a Four Season Plan, Give 'Ratched's' Peach Argument Several Emmys, Who is Huck Finnigan on Netflix's 'Ratched'? It was the entire family's dream that both Zak and Saraya would make it to WWE. Fighting With My Family changes and simplifies many aspects of Paige's career in NXT, mainly to smoothen the story for general audiences. According to Paige "like, 95 percent of the story was very accurate," though she adds: "Obviously, there were little twists for Hollywood, but it’s very true.”.

The phone call Zak received telling him it was a no was shown in the Channel 4 documentary. Furthermore, Vince Vaughn’s character Hutch Morgan is not a real person, but an amalgamation of a bunch of trainers and managers at the WWE. She wrestled under the name Saraya, but changed her title to Paige before she debuted in February 2012. 147, This story has been shared 140 times. She won the Divas Championship twice and went on to become the general manager of the SmackDown brand following her retirement from in-ring competition in April 2018 due to a neck injury.
Her goth look and unique sex appeal were different from the glamorous WWE Divas of that era and she was billed as "The Anti-Diva". No. In the Channel 4 documentary the family is described as “the biggest names in modern British wrestling.”. — on a totally triumphant note and doesn’t bother telling us where Paige is in 2020. At the first tryout that he attended with his sister, he was told that he needed to put on more muscle before trying out again. In addition to WAW, the Knights also wrestled and won championships in many countries, including the United States, with Britani and her mom "Sweet" Saraya becoming tag team champions in the U.S.-based, all-female SHIMMER promotion in 2011 before Britani left for WWE. 197, This story has been shared 147 times.

Yes. A WWE talent scout invited Saraya and Zak to attend WWE trials in Great Britain.

So what’s the true story at the heart of Fighting With My Family? They did amazing, every single one of them. 281, This story has been shared 197 times. The matriarch of the family, Julia Knight, stepped into the ring as Sweet Saraya. What Time Will 'A West Wing Special' Premiere on HBO Max? After that, she became one of the biggest stars on the WWE women’s roster and helped usher in the “Women’s Revolution,” along with current stars Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch. newspaper archive.
Merchant strived to be as authentic to Paige's story as possible, but he made many creative decisions in order to clarify her WWE journey and to benefit the film's narrative. -Norwich Evening News.

Produced by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (who plays himself in the film), Fighting With My Family follows the movie-ready story of how the girl was … Directed by Stephen Merchant. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing to have something, a product like this. We see the Rock screaming at her.

See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, Fighting With My Family is out in cinemas on March 1, 2019. WHAT IS IT? 'Bridgerton' First Look: Shonda Rhimes' First Netflix Series Goes Back in Time, Best on Netflix: The Top 11 Ominous Movies + Shows, 'The Haunting of Bly Manor': How to Find All the Hidden Ghosts, 'NCIS: New Orleans' Actors Allege CBS Orchestrated a "Guerilla-Style" Robbery Scene with No Safety Measures. Bevi is a two-time Divas Champion and was the inaugural NXT Women's Champion in WWE's developmental branch NXT. “The first initial time I watched it I couldn’t (see it), because I was crying so much," she told app. A one-stop shop for all things video games. "And just happen to involve people in spandex throwing each other about. They not only learn WWE's style of wrestling but also the technical details of how to perform for the TV cameras and the audience at home. That's where the money is. "[The filmmakers] all started coming over to England to film and [my family members] all have extra parts in it,” she said (Lilian Garcia Podcast). Fighting With My Family depicts Paige as uncertain in the ring and on the microphone to dramatize the difficulty of making it in NXT and to portray Paige as an underdog misfit.

During that same conversation, he informed her a movie was going to be made about her family.


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