Cody Rhodes Talks About The Stardust Character, Travelling With Brandi, Wrestling Outside WWE

Source: IGN

Cody Rhodes was recently interviewed by IGN as part of promoting his appearance on “Arrow”. During the interview, Cody talked about the Stardust character, working with Brandi and more. Below are a few highlights.

On the Stardust character:”I think for me, internally, the entire thing was a comic book. In terms of psychologically thinking about it, I approached it like a symbiote, like Venom, taking over my initial persona. Especially since I’d wrestled for the prior eight years as myself and here was this drastic departure. I was treating it like this symbiote thing. That’s what I would say to myself in my head. Then performance-wise, people know I was just stealing flat out from Frank Gorshin and Jim Carrey’s Riddlers. I’d watch the scene where he blew up the Batcave and study how he moved around and just plucked some of that out in certain ways. In my mind, it was a mash-up of different comic book influences. I loved the idea that I had an alter-ego but that my true identity was very well known and very much on the surface. I was the only one who didn’t know who Stardust really was. So it …

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