Cody Rhodes Was Adamant About Doing His Own Stunts For ‘Street Fighter’
Cody Rhodes pulled out all the stops for ‘Street Fighter’.
Rhodes is set to portray the popular character Guile in the live-action ‘Street Fighter’ film, which hits theaters in 2026. The film will also feature two other wrestlers, as Roman Reigns will portray Akuma and Hirooki Goto will portray E. Honda.
Appearing on a recent episode of The Pat McAfee Show, Cody Rhodes talked about recently filming the movie and how he was adamant about doing his own stunts.
“The physicality part of Guile was a pretty easy pick up. A bit of a spoiler for what I hope is going to be a monster movie, Guile does a few things — in terms of the video games, you know Guile is going to do a Sonic Boom, you know he’s going to do the Flash Kick. I was adamant that anything that’s a stunt, I want to do it. If that requires me being on these wires, I wanna do it. If you put another guy over here in the corner who I know is going to do the shot after, I still want a shot at it. His name is JV, his stunt squad is putting together these fights because it’s Street Fighter, you need fights, it’s a fighting tournament. Unbelievable, very easy for me to jump right into it and he had a great team around me to let me get one go at a couple of things that I hope I get to see in the movie.”
Rhodes went on to praise the cast and crew after noting that the movie has a ton of fan service.
“That movie, if you’ve ever played particularly Street Fighter 2, what Kitao Sakurai has done as the director is unbelievable. It’s just fan service. If you saw us walking around the lot in Australia, you’ve got [all these characters]. I don’t want to say the real final boss, but in that game, you know. Just a really wonderful cast. I think one thing they did on this movie that was awesome was Noah, Koji, and Callina, who are the three leads, unbelievable actors who take it serious and are there to work everyday. Then you’ve got me and 50 Cent and Andrew Schulz and Roman, we were able to play. They let us have a lot of fun and I hope people enjoy how I approach Guile because it’s different than straight military man, I suppose.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Rhodes spoke about his match with John Cena at WWE SummerSlam. Check out his full comments by clicking here.
