Paul "Triple H" Levesque

One of the most...

You asked me about him in the beginning, one of the most beloved epic characters that we have ever had in our industry, went through a lot of career changes and morphs.

But the basic premise of his character is he's a dead guy that just you can't hurt him, right?

So no matter what you do to him, he just keeps coming.

And, you know, that played out in a million different directions over time, but very much a character.

Then there are characters and I'll just use this as an example, like CM Punk.

who is a massive character for us, but with CM Punk, CM Punk is Phil Brooks, his real name.

Phil Brooks is CM Punk.

And it's really difficult, if you went down the character of CM Punk, it's really hard to delineate that from Phil Brooks, almost the same person.

And Phil Brooks' attitude and his excitement or his displeasure with things comes out in his character.

It's on his sleeve, right?

But so that's a great character for us because you never know the blend of is that real?

Is that not real?

Are they taking a real situation and ramping it up, turning the volume on it to make it worthwhile?

Is the confrontation between those two talent real or is it part of the storyline?

some of the stuff we do so you know people that aren't fans of wwe sometimes um will think like sometimes it's so hokey or corny yeah it's supposed to be it's entertainment it's supposed to be fun it's supposed to be fun you're supposed to enjoy it at times we're going to make you laugh at times we're going to make you cry at times we're going to make you on the edge of your seat excited with your adrenaline pumping we're going to make you sad we're going to we're going to run the gamut of all those emotions like any great tv show would

with those characters, but it's not supposed to be serious all the time.

Some of the characters that are serious are the best ones are the ones that blur reality.

When you can blur those lines of reality and people think,

Well, that might be scripted, but I think those two guys really don't like each other and they might really fight.