or ted bundy or something like that. >> jimmy: yeah, right yeah. [ laughter ] >> when we showed up to, where a lot of the story takes place, he was there with his whole family. we had a one-on-one chat. >> jimmy: did you fight? [ laughter ] wouldn't that be cool? >> no, but it could have gone that way. oh, man. i was ready for him to be, "dude, you messed that up." >> jimmy: what was it like getting in that ring for the first time? >> i don't even know how to put it into words, man. you sign on to play a wrestler, you know you're in for a bit of -- i don't know, "magic mike" scenario, kind of. but there's the moment that it becomes real. and you're out there in front of a huge audience. >> jimmy: oh, so those people were really there? >> yeah, a lot of them were real, you know, big wrestling fans. >> jimmy: right. >> but you know, the way we shot the film, we did, like, really long takes. we'd shoot the whole wrestling sequence kind of at the same time. so the matches could be anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes long. we would do the whole thing start to finish. so you would emerge, see th