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Welcome back, our next guests
are starring in a new series.
It's a dark small town drama in Georgia
about two brothers with pro wrestling dreams.
One is a villain or heel in the ring,
the other a hero or face.
They're both fighting for their
late father's wrestling promotion
while buying for national attention,
let's go ahead and check in with actors
Stephen Amell and Alexander Ludwig
to talk about this series on Starz.
Good morning to you.
Both welcome.
Good morning morning.
A great to have you.
OK so you guys play brothers Jack and Ace
Spade tell our viewers about your characters.
Who's a good guy who's a bad guy?
Everything we need to know.
Well, first of
all, we're very much missing
San Diego because we are so used
to going there for Comic Con,
so we can't wait to come
back. That's right. Well, we can't.
We can't wait to have you back next year.
Or maybe I, I think Halloween right there.
Having like a special event. Who's
to say alright would be amazing.
That would be amazing.
But yeah, so I know I played Jack.
I'm the bad guy in the ring.
I'm the I'm the guy that's a
little bit more of a standup guy
outside of the ring and I play ace.
He's the rock star in the ring and
the hero and outside of the ring he
is a complete disaster. In real life,
you guys actually seem like
like you could be real.
Brothers really tell us tell our viewers OK,
when you initially here, you know this.
The series about wrestling.
Do you have to be a wrestling
fan to be interested in
this series? No, take it, take it,
take it from the guy who grew up
with big wrestling fan and someone
who grew up sort of more on the on
the fringes of the wrestling fandom.
You know you can walk into this with
no no knowledge of anything to do with
pro wrestling at the WWE level or at.
The small, independent promotional
promotion level, but this really
comes down to the relationships that
exist within a wrestling with in
a small town wrestling promotion.
Bunch of people who want more
out of life and just people were
aspirational and are doing something
'cause they're passionate about it,
which I think everyone can connect.
Yeah, it's totally relatable.
What do you want the viewers to walk
away with when they watch this series?
Oh man, I mean it's a it's a
rollercoaster of emotions.
This show I you know I think
that I hope they have the same
experience and it feels like for the
people who have seen it already,
that that that this is happening.
But they have the same experience
that we have when we read the
scripts which is just you know,
these characters are we're going to
see you're going to see yourself
in one of these if not all of them.
And these characters are so complex and
exciting and the world is so colorful
and it's about people wanting more
out of life and trying to provide and.
I mean, who can't relate to that,
you know, and they're thrown
into this incredible world.
And it's a hell of a ride.
And I think people are really
going to see that,
and I hope they
do so for those who don't know what
is a heel in the wrestling world.
So it's like it's it's it's,
it's just it's it's the bad guy in the ring.
It's the one that it's the one
that whose responsibility is to
to make the crowd Boo him or her.
And us to make the crowd
cheer for the good guy.
And the best thing that the that
the heel can do is give the face
the match of his life and make the
face look like 1,000,000 bucks.
That's wall of the bad guy.
OK, that
makes sense. So how did you
guys train for this series?
Ma'am is insane exhaustively,
yes exactly. Yeah, speaking,
as somebody who who who didn't
really have a lot of wrestling,
wrestling experience, Steven had someone.
He's wrestled in some pro matches.
I immediately realized pretty quickly
that we had to go from zero to 100.
Really, really fast,
and right when we started the show,
we were in a training facility in Los
Angeles with a guy named Chavo Guerrero,
who comes from very prolific wrestling
family trained there for months in the ring,
then moved to Atlanta, GA.
Stars built us this incredible gym.
When we weren't training in the gym,
we were in the ring with pro wrestlers
in the South who were on our stunt
team and it was just this constant
cycle of filming Jim Ring filming Jim
Ring for like 8 months while COVID was
happening it was it was unbelievable.
It's definitely I think the most
and we've we've ever trained for
anything yeah before so our viewers can
see your hard work this Sunday heels
premieres on Starz, Steven Alexander.
Thank you so much for joining
us and giving us a little sneak
peek into what people can expect.
Thank you very much.