[MUSIC]
Action >> We're in Cincinnati, Ohio and I am
filming a movie with Bruce Willis and an amazing cast and it's called Open Source.
My character is Sasha, so I am ex-military, I’m a mercenary,
the cream of the crop when it comes to your armed services,
like 1% of the military, I’m that person.
>> Hey, ow, ow.
>> [LAUGH] >> Ow
>> Let him go Sash.
>> Really Dash?
>> My job is to come prepared.
Once you embody or you know your character, then you're able to add little
characteristics that your character would do, and then you can throw them out
to the director, and if he likes it, cool, if he doesn't, that's okay too.
>> Let them go, he came in to [INAUDIBLE].
>> So cool, yeah, that's good, we're good, that works.
>> Very different than WWE in the sense of, we're sitting here in one location,
in one spot.
WWE is constantly moving, different cities, different towns,
different audience, it's not like we're picking up our luggage and our suitcases,
hoping in a car and driving to the next city.
It just comes kinda natural, anybody that is in WWE,
you kind of already embody everything doing that.
You're performing live, which is so much harder than being able to say,
cut, give me the line.
What?
Let's do it again, or a different angle, Monday Night Raw,
you don't have another take.
So, I feel like the transition is just one of those things that's supernatural.
>> Hoorah!
>> Cut, nice.
>> Not bad.
>> I'm the youngest of all boys, so I'm the baby girl, I'm Mexican-Italian,
very much grew up tomboy, wanted to be alpha, wanted to always compete.
When I was really little, my mom put me in dance and ballet, and I loved it,
but then my brothers all were playing sports and they were playing football,
baseball, basketball, I wanted to be like one of them.
I started playing and I played everything,
until my sophomore year when I got really serious into strictly just soccer.
Soccer was my main sport, I wanted to be a professional soccer player, that was
really the dream, and then I tore my ligaments, my ankle and I stopped playing.
I was able to get through college, thank God, and got my business management
degree, but then I wasn't ready to go into the corporate world.
I moved to LA, I dabbled in a little bit of modeling, a little bit of acting,
and I really enjoyed it, and then WWE came into town, and
they're doing a Diva Search, I was like, my Gosh, if I could land this,
this has everything that I wanna do and fuse into one place.
You get to perform a live, you get to travel the world, and
then on top of that, you get to compete.
And you have to be physically fit and
handle all of the physicality that it takes to perform inside the ring.
Wrestling to me I remember getting thrown around, being a little girl with
my brothers and stuff, so, if I could actually learn to really handle it and
go home and give them the business, that would be, ideal.
>> I got another callback and the last one was a four week, in ring physicality try
out, to see if you could even handle taking a bump, running the ropes.
So, after the four weeks, I was just like this is everything and
more that I've ever wanted, this is the moment, and I got it.
At the time they are developing Total Divas, so, they were like hey,
they gave me a call and asked if I would go to a meeting, slash, kinda audition.
We can't really tell you too much more, and it's just a one on one,
just kind of talking back and forth, drilling question, question, question,
and then said okay, well if you happen to get this project, we are moving very,
very fast, so your life could be changing within the next, 72 hours.
So, that was a Friday, I got a call on Saturday, saying congratulations,
you got it, so, you will be hopping on a plane to WrestleMania.
[MUSIC]
My God.
[MUSIC]
Hi, my name is Eva Marie, I'm 28 years old and I'm from the Bay Area.
I was in New York at this really expensive salon, which I also was,
how am I even in this salon right now?
Where are we?
I was listening to Rihanna's album Loud, and she, on the cover she had that crazy,
just fire red hair, so, I remember sitting in the chair.
I have to do red.
>> How red do you wanna be?
Fire? >> Rihanna red.
>> Rihanna red?
Exciting >> Rihanna red.
And then all red everything came to life, and boy did she.
[LAUGH] >> My
name is Eva Marie and I'm here to make a name for myself.
>> [APPLAUSE]
>> Miz, I think we're about out of time, I think I'll turn this back over to you.
>> In all of my kind of debuts, whether it was my first time being on TV,
that moment, or my first match, just kinda had to learn as I went,
but it really benefited me and my character because it turned me
immediately into a heel, like within 2.5 seconds,
but it did take a little bit to get used to, I'm not gonna lie.
[LAUGH] [MUSIC]
[APPLAUSE] >> Bayley and
myself, and was paired with Nia Jax, that's probably one of, for
sure, my most memorable storylines and matches.
>> The referee was doing a fine job.
>> My, Eva Marie from behind!
>> No, no, no.
>> Bayley able to power off.
>> Eva Marie takes advantage.
>> And another, wait a minute, wait a minute.
>> [CROSSTALK] >> That's it.
>> New champion, cover.
>> And Bayley powers out.
No!.
>> [NOISE] >> That audience it's so
intimate and they're so die hard.
That was the first time I had the feeling they didn't want it to end.
>> Going back to the top.
>> Bayley >> But this time, yes.
Super Bayley, but there's no official yet.
>> One, two, three.
>> [SOUND] >> [APPLAUSE]
[MUSIC]
>> That entrant that, when I came back to the main Wrong Star, was insane, the first
time that I've heard it I'm like, people are literally gonna throw food at me.
>> From Concord, California comes the most,
stylish, elegant, bewitching,
eternally beguiling, continuously charismatic,
and fantastically fascinating woman to appear in this or any arena.
Allow yourself to to be seduced,
enchanted, dazzled, and
entranced by All Red Everything herself, Eva Marie.
>> It was with Becky Lynch, when I was avoiding matches with her, so one of them,
I got up on the second rope and then as I jumped down, I hurt my knee.
>> Ladies and gentlemen due to the fact that Eva Marie cannot compete,
this match will not take place.
>> A classic one was my top almost came off.
>> God [INAUDIBLE] >> Give me a towel, give me a towel.
>> That was really fun, I do wish that we got to play that completely out.
Being in WWE gives you an amazing, tremendous platform and
I've always had this entrepreneur just mindset,
I've always wanted to run my own business, be my own boss.
Other, TV and film opportunities were kinda coming up as well, and so
it was one of those things where it was like, okay, well,
I don't wanna also say no to the transition,
because what if it doesn't exist in three or four years, then what?
Then I'm going to look back and say I should have taken those job opportunities,
as well, so that's kind of how it all went down.
Because I didn't feel like I was walking away from the WWE,
even though I made that transition, I never truly felt that I was done.
>> Ready to do this?
>> What kinda question is that.
>> [LAUGH] >> Come on.
>> So, today as you guys know, we're in Monster HQ,
this is where the athletes train, this is where corporate trains,
this is the big Monster Gym, and it's especially, I guess,
extra special for me, because I'm plastered up here on the wall.
Today we're training, we're getting ready because we are actually going overseas to
get everybody excited and hyped about the brand.
It reminds me a lot of WWE, it's a very easy transition for me just because they
have the same core values and the sense of what they represent.
>> You guys know that fitness is my brand it's, I live it, walk it, breathe it,
do it, every single day.
You guys are gonna see my girl P here videoing just like behind the scenes
stuff, cuz I think it's so important especially,
cuz we live in such a social media era, to really bring you guys along with me,
show you my day to day, and show you what I do on a daily basis and
kind of peel back the curtains like we did with Total Divas.
Jonathan wrote all of the workouts that are on my website at natalieevamarie.com,
we have a subscription site on there as well, we do challenges, carb cycling,
so we just kinda made what I do on a daily basis and then turned it into
something that my audience can actually tangibly grab as well, and follow along.
Without social media, I wouldn't exist, because it gives somebody such
a free access to one follow me every single day, but also, what am I doing?
What am I up to?
What am I working on?
What am I creating?
NEM fashion, when I was on the road, I always had shades on.
So, I wanted to create my own, because if I'm going and
I'm wearing something all the time, I want it to be my brand, then that's
NEM Fashion kinda came to life, and we have a million different sunglasses now,
and now I'm walking around wearing my own brand, which is the name of the game.
Your decisions especially being super young, they have such an impact on you.
I still had a year left of school to complete and
I ended up making poor decisions and got into a terrible car accident,
and I ended up getting a DUI and lost my driver's licence totaled my car,
I ended up going to jail for 3 months, because those are the choices that I made.
Just kind of going through all of that and really embracing all of
the good with the bad, has kind of allowed me to learn all these lessons.
>> To watch her grow from that, and become a worldwide brand, that's amazing just
from that perspective, but then to see when she went to Total Divas, and became
very, very open about her alcoholism and working at 12 step program and
seeing that evolution from a girl that did not even want to go to AA meetings,
because she was embarrassed, to now on a national and a worldwide platform,
talking about that experience and how it's helped her and sponsoring girls and
seeing that, I think that's where I'm the most proud of.
>> My relationship in general with everything that I do,
is so much more solid.
>> Okay, let's get quiet, let's do this, pictures up.
Brook's gone [SOUND] >> I don't think that I would be as
prepared if I did not have the WWE background,
because it has just really prepared me in all aspects because,
anyone that is a WWE superstar is a stone cold stud.
Not only are they able to handle physicality,
there's no one in the world that performs like we do, there's no off season,
we're not getting charted around on private planes to the next city,
we're doing this because of the love of wrestling, the sport,
as well as performing for the WWE Universe.
So, I really think that having that prior to any of this,
really just instilled all of that in me and
allowed me to really enjoy this next element.
>> I think that's a around on Natalie talking about Marie.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> So, I didn't have
those feelings of, cuz I don't feel like my business at WWE is over yet,
I never really got to finish out what will set out to accomplish, and
that's why the door definitely for me is gonna be open.
I don't think you have seen the last of Eva Marie in the WWE ring,
that's for sure.