Santos Escobar was involved on the earth of Lucha Libre since he was a youthful teen, and it helped put collectively him to turn into the WWE Well-known particular person he’s within the current day.
SmackDown Well-known particular person Santos Escobar was a present customer on Out of Character with Ryan Satin to debate all types of subjects. When requested about rising up collectively together with his father, who was always seen in public collectively together with his Luchadore masks on, Escobar in distinction it to his dad being a superhero and later discovered how loads it wanted to do with character development.
“It was weird because of it’s not, quote-unquote, common to have these circumstances the place I used to drive along with him in all places, do the reveals, interviews, photoshoots, and whatnot,” Santos Escobar acknowledged. “TV reveals, movies, and all that. And we could be driving normally casually throughout the vehicle, after which probably like a block sooner than we arrived to the venue; masks.
“And I was just so impressed by it because of, ideas you, a baby doesn’t know the excellence between Superman, Batman, or your dad. After they positioned on the masks, they’re superheroes too. He’s one too. So that’s what I assumed once more then. Nevertheless then I seen it’s a follow.
“The customized of guarding the Lucha Libre image and the best way it’s essential to portray your character, and it’s quite a lot of character development, with out calling it character development. It’s essential to always portray your self as a celeb. And it’s essential to always costume like a celeb, and likewise you always ought to present that image, and it’s a customized, nevertheless it’s moreover you, and I’d title it an unlimited character development.”
Santos Escobar believes the time he spent in Mexican Lucha Libre really helped put collectively him for the transition of becoming a WWE Well-known particular person.
“So all people asks me how powerful it was to transition from Mexican Lucha Libre to the WWE Universe. Truly, Mexican Lucha Libre has obtained quite a lot of what you need,” Santos Escobar acknowledged. “A complete lot of the bins that it’s essential to check to develop right into a WWE Well-known particular person.
“As a Mexican Luchadore, you already do it. The character development is telling the story. The way in which you portray and present a product. It’s quite a lot of what we do. Just some people title it utterly totally different industries or utterly totally different worlds, utterly totally different psychology, or regardless of. Nevertheless in my ideas, it wasn’t onerous because of I already knew straightforward strategies to present myself. As an example.”
When Satin launched up that he’s seen wrestlers who’ve worn masks all via most of their careers have gotten extraordinarily good at displaying emotions on their faces. Escobar agreed with this, explaining how powerful it was for him to breathe when he first started competing beneath a masks.
“Exactly. I really feel I agree with you, and I wore the masks for these 18 years. And at first, it was very powerful. It was very powerful merely to hold out. I couldn’t breathe because of I felt like I had fingers over my face defending my nostrils, defending my mouth, nevertheless then it kind of grew to develop into my second ambiance throughout the ring sporting my masks.
“After which I started digging down and getting the expressions portraying appropriately what I was feeling to the viewers, and it merely kind of grew to develop into an issue once more then. Nevertheless then, as you talked about, after I took my masks off, it was all there. It was all there, events ten. So I really feel Mexican Lucha Libre is the right.”
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