Big E and Kofi Kingston of New Day say WWE isn’t booty when it comes to allowing them freedom to be creative with their wrestling personas.
They recently spoke to NDTV Gadgets 360 during a promotional tour to India. Here’s what Big E had to say about creative liberties the tag team group is allowed to take:
We have a long leash for sure. That’s taken time to get trust from the higher ups and people of importance. But yeah, we don’t write everything. A lot of times we’re given scripts and we disagree with the script’s directions and we have some leniency to retool. A lot of times it’s ‘hey we need an overhaul and none of it works’ and sometimes it’s just a few tweaks here and there.
We’ve been very fortunate. A lot of talent really don’t have that ability to just say ‘hey I want to rewrite this promo’ but it’s really helped us. And one thing we’ve noticed, too, is that as much as we – as a company- try to attach ourselves to pop culture, we felt also that a lot times they were a little outdated or a little bit outside of their window of freshness.
Kofi Kingston added that he’s enjoyed the evolution of New Day as one of the most hated tag teams to one of the most beloved:
My favourite era is the now. The unicorn era of the WWE. That is The New Day. We got to host Wrestlemania 33. We went from being the most hated group. Two years ago at Wrestlemania, we were booed out of the building. The entire arena was telling us that we sucked, and then you fast forward two years, and we were dressed up as Final Fantasy characters and we had an ice cream bicycle.
Kingston was asked what’s next, and he admitted he wasn’t entirely sure:
I don’t think that we ever plan. These things just happen. The unicornification of New Day just kind of happened. Woods actually had the idea of having us on a t-shirt all on the back of a unicorn and then from that, the horn was born and putting their index finger on their head acting like unicorns. And now you have Starbucks with their Unicorn Frappuccino capitalising off our stuff here but the unicornification of the world is in full effect right now.
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http://gadgets.ndtv.com/games/features/wwe-new-day-nintendo-switch-starbucks-wwe2k17-1693656