So add all that together and it explains a lot of why Stratus – who had been powerbombed and leg-swept in just about every arena in North America – was so eager to do as many of her own stunts as possible. So I didn’t need firearms training because I went through that.” She said, “It was a bunch of celebs who got shipped off to Muncie, Indiana, and trained to be police officers. ![]() That’s when another post-in-ring experience, the TV reality show Armed and Famous, paid off. So she had the physical combat side down, but wrestlers don’t usually use guns, and Gridlocked is an old-fashioned slam-blam, firearms and handguns action film. “I love fight scenes, so I was excited to take fight school.” As for Davison, she said, “He didn’t know much about wrestling, but he did appreciate the athleticism.” That definitely helped when she met with Gridlocked stunt director Neil Davison to finesse the film’s multiple hand-to-hand combat scenes. She chose yoga, which not only gave her a second career when she opened up her own yoga studio, but also made her “a lot more agile, and I have better recovery time.” Without it, she added, “I wouldn’t be able to keep up the physicality in my life.” Two years before she left the WWE, she was faced with two options: After the huge amount of punishment her body had taken from wrestling, she could either undergo reconstructive surgery, or take up yoga. “He said, ‘I’ve got this role for a female person that can kick ass.’ Check.” Moreover, Gridlocked was shooting in Toronto, so “it was kind of perfect."īut it wasn’t just about the right manager calling her at the right time with the right script. Two weeks later, the agent called back with a part for Stratus. ![]() “I said, 'I’m really interested in this, but I’ve just had my child, and I don’t want to be jetting off to L.A.'” With a baby due, she held off on accepting the offer for a while, but after Max was born that September, she finally flew out for a meeting. She recalled, “He said how he really enjoyed his life on TV,” and offered to introduce her to his manager. He’d joined the cast of the Stephen King-inspired show in season 2 as Police Chief Dwight Hendrickson, so Stratus dropped by to see her old friend. As luck would have it, while Stratus was on vacation, Copeland was on set in Halifax for the SyFy original series Haven. After he retired from the ring in 2011, he moved into acting. He and fellow Canadian Stratus were key components of the WWE’s roster in the early 2000s, both were multi-time champions, and both are now in the WWE's Hall of Fame. “I get a text from Adam saying ‘Are you here?’ ‘Yes, are you here?’”Īdam was Adam Copeland, better known to wrestling fans as Edge. She said, “I enjoyed the process, but it was at a point in my life when I wanted to build my business, and build my brand.”Īcting came back into her life in 2013, when she and her husband were taking a babymoon (“that’s the last vacation you take with your spouse before you become a party of three”) in Halifax, Nova Scotia. ![]() She actually did her first film, Bail Enforcers, in 2011, but the timing wasn’t quite right. Stratus began her in-ring career as a tag team manager, but by the end of her six year run, she had revolutionized how women were seen in wrestling, even achieving something that was once thought impossible: headlining the WWE’s flagship show, Monday Night Raw. ![]() There had been top-level female grapplers in the Fifties, like the Fabulous Moolah, but the industry had negated their wrestling presence, sidelining women as valets and announcers. While the modern WWE has started pushing women wrestlers as top-level performers, Stratus was arguably the first modern female wrestling superstar. When Stratus says retired, she means from professional wrestling. She said, “Acting is one of these things that, when I retired in 2006 – God, that feels a long time ago.” It's bad timing for officers, but the film was perfect timing for Stratus. An ordinary shift turns into an Assault on Precinct 13-esque siege when a gang of mercenaries lead by Korver ( Stephen Lang, Avatar) show up. In Gridlocked (which debuted last year at Fantastic Fest), Stratus plays Gina, part of an elite police unit headed up by David Hendrix ( Dominic Purcell, Prison Break, The Flash). We do everything ourselves on the road.” Trish Stratus makes the leap from the squared circle to the silver screen for action thriller Gridlocked.
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