Miz on His Acting Career and Dream Acting Roles

Can we please have quiet on the set? This past year has been one of the best of Miz’s career as his promos have been through the roof and he’s won a pair of Intercontinental Titles. It turns out that he’s also had quite the year out of the ring too with the release of a new movie in the Marine series.

Miz recently spoke with Uproxx.com on his new movie, “The Marine 5: Battleground”, his acting career in general and a host of other topics, almost none of which have to do with his actual wrestling career. Here are a few highlights of the fairly lengthy interview:

On Having Fellow WWE Superstars in the Film

“As soon as I knew they were all in the movie, we basically went at a Smackdown Live, I believe we were all there, and … this is before the draft happened, or the brand extension. So we went upstairs at Smackdown Live, and literally just sat down and read the whole script together as a complete unit; as a cast, just to really know that what we’re doing, what we want, and these guys really came to play. They weren’t messing around. They wanted to do a really good job and I think they really succeeded at it.”

On His Dream Acting Job

“My dream project? I mean, I think anyone’s dream project right now is how amazing the Marvel/DC comic book era is really coming together and really blowing up the scene. Anytime you have a movie, it’s breaking records, it’s doing great things, so obviously I’d want a Marvel character.

“Obviously, Deadpool is already taken and Ryan Reynolds did an absolutely fantastic job. That was always my dream role ever since I saw the video game seven years ago, I was like “Oh my god, I want to play this guy!” But, Ryan Reynolds took it and knocked it out of the park and did an absolutely incredible job, so I can’t fault him at all. But I think anyone would want to do Marvel or DC, maybe WWE can combine with them and do something, but you never know.”

And on His Three Favorite Acting Roles

Okay, three favorite movies? God, they’re all my babies, you know. I would have to go Marine 3 because it was my first, Marine 5 because it’s my latest, and then, it would have to be out of either Marine 4 or Santa’s Little Helper … are my other two. I don’t know, they’re all my babies.

You can read the full interview here.

Opinion: I know a lot of people try to get into acting outside of WWE but Miz really does seem to have started something there. He’s got a great natural charisma and shows up on various talk shows looking like a movie star. Throw in the gorgeous wife and he really does seem like a star in the making who could go somewhere with it after his in-ring career ends.

What is your favorite WWE Studios movie? Do you like Miz’s acting work? Let us know in the comments below.