Slapstick comedian Marc Maron is greatest identified to wrestling followers for his look within the Netflix collection “GLOW.” Nevertheless, whereas showing on the one thousandth episode of “Speak Is Jericho,” he revealed that he wasn’t a wrestling fan when he first accepted the position.

“I used to be a really younger child, in all probability in fourth or fifth grade, I might stroll right down to the drug retailer from my home in Albuquerque. Okay. And there was these wrestling magazines. They have been all the time on the rack. I knew nothing about it, however I simply knew it was like, bloody guys and unitards. And I used to be simply kind of like, what the f*** is occurring? And so they’re all the time, like, subsequent to the true detective magazines. So it was similar to guys lined in blood after which our bodies,” stated the actor and podcaster.

“So after I acquired the half on GLOW, I used to be like, I do not know something about wrestling,” Maron continued. “They have been like, neither does your character, he is a movie director. That is type of down on his luck. And he is been given this chance.’ I am like, ‘Nice, then I can study that.’ So actually, my expertise with wrestling and I met a couple of guys who did the present. Chavo [Guerrero Jr.] was there, and I type of acquired some classes and a few historical past. However it wasn’t till I went with Brendan to see you guys that I had no expertise of it.”

Maron would go on to say he’d study the terminology equivalent to heel, face, and kayfabe from watching the ladies on set. Moreover, he said he was a type of individuals who puzzled what the purpose of wrestling was on account of it not being actual, however having attended a present now understands the tradition extra. And whereas not an everyday watcher, having attended an AEW present, he stated, “I get it.”

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