You look fantastic.
Thank you.
It's so nice to meet you.
And you're a great actor by the way, you're really,
really nice actor.
Thank you.
But you were a pro wrestler.
I was.
At what age did you start?
I got into professional wrestling at 30 years old.
30.
Is that late for pro wrestling?
Really late.
But I was at the point where I had
wasted my 20s in nightclubs.
I was a bouncer from the time I was 17 till I was about 30,
and I was broke and had no future and had two kids.
And I was desperate, so I was trying
to figure out what I could do, and kind of a light bulb
went off over my head, and I was like-- what am I
qualified to do?
And professional wrestling was the answer,
and of course originally I failed miserably at that,
but I just stuck with it, and I found my way.
And a few years later, I was world champion.
A few years.
So that's how eventually, that's--
Yeah, well it was something I really--
I left everything behind, because I really
was-- when I say I was desperate,
I mean, I'm not joking.
I was desperate.
I had nothing.
What led me into looking for a career was I had to go--
I had to go one year for Christmas
and borrow money from a club owner
because I didn't have money to buy my kids Christmas presents.
And I was so humiliated, and I just wanted to make a change.
And I just didn't know what to do.
I didn't know what I was qualified for.
I didn't have an education, and I
figured I'd give professional wrestling a shot.
I was physically capable, and I looked
like a professional wrestler--
my first tryout, they literally told me
I would never be a professional wrestler,
and I should leave and go away and never come back.
And it lit a fire under my butt.
And how long did that last?
I was a professional wrestler for about 10 years.
10 years.
Because you really are a very, very nice actor.
It's--
Thank you.
Seriously, you're incredible.
And I hear that--
I don't know if this is true, but--
guardians of the galaxy, the next one, will be your last.
It will.
Yeah, you know, it's weird because when I said it,
I said it recently because I've been
doing interviews and talking a lot about Guardians,
and I didn't think it was going to be news
because I figured everybody assumed
that this is how this works.
We work in trilogies, and James Gunn has already
announced that it's his last film, and when James is done,
I'm done.
And I'm also going to be 54 years old by the time Guardians
3 comes out.
And just like the shirtless thing is getting
harder and harder for me, and--
Yeah.
But I just-- the journey has come full circle,
and I'm just ready to kind of step aside and wrap it up.
Yeah, well you'll do something obviously.
There's other movies to do.
I'm looking at several tattoos on you.
How many tattoos do you have?
I have so many--
it's kind of a joke now.
I say that I have like 5.
Because I have so many tattoos--
they're all-- most of them are connected.
But it's my life story.
I've probably got hundreds.
I'm covered.
Do you still, like, when's the last time you got a tattoo?
Oh God, a few months ago.
Yeah, if I have time off, I'm probably getting a tattoo.
Which is--
Really?
--part of my story I guess, and I'm telling throughout my life.
So if there's something that comes
into your-- an idea you have-- you
want to put it on your body.
Yeah I think if I'm feeling a certain way
about a certain thing, or it's a certain time in my life,
and yeah it is.
Tattoos really are my life story.
They're things I'm very passionate about.
And, I don't know, they're kind of mementos
of people and family and--
Do you have animals on you, because I know
you're a huge animal lover.
I have three pit bulls.
Well two pit bulls and one catahoula on my thigh.
And I have two new pit bulls, who I adopted about a year
and a half ago, where I'm trying to figure out where
I can fit them on my body.
I think, I will, I'll fit their faces--
or I'm thinking about paw-prints.
Doing their paw-prints on me somewhere, maybe on my face.
Don't put them on your face.
It wouldn't be a good career move.
No, no not really.
All right, let's talk about the movie.
I found it so entertaining.
I watched it last night, and of course, Tig
is a friend of mine.
Yeah.
Who was great in it also.
So, tell everybody about the movie.
So I'm really bad at this, so bear with me.
I hope I do it justice.
But this is basically-- so there's
been a zombie apocalypse, and the breakout
has been contained to Las Vegas.
So there's this greedy hotel owner
who's already collected insurance,
but he also wants to get the money out of his Casino
that he left behind.
So he hires this ex military team of zombie killers
to go in, get the money, and come out.
So they have to not only face the zombie threat--
but also, so what's left of the zombie breakout
is going to be nuked, so he's under the time crunch.
So add a bunch of relationship issues and a redemption story
to that, but that's basically what it is.
It's a zombie slash heist film.
It's a zombie heist, but it's also a tongue-in-cheek.
There's some comedy in there.
It's funny, and it's clever.
It's very self-aware, and Tig is really amazing.
Yeah, yeah.
It's great.
We didn't get to talk about it, but I know you collect
lunchboxes, which is kind of surprising, I don't know why--
but that you collect--
so I thought I would add to your collection.
I had a special Ellen lunchbox made for you,
so that's going in your collection.
You're the only one who has it.
This is so amazing.
Ever see someone get so excited about lunchboxes?
No but I saw the picture.
You have a lot of them.
Yeah, I have a pretty sizable collection.
Well that's a one of a kind.
This was brilliant, thank you so much.
You're welcome.
So nice meeting you.
Yeah, likewise.
Yeah, thanks for being here.
Army of the Dead is in select theaters
and streaming on Netflix this Friday.
We'll be back.