WWE Unreal Director Chris Weaver Says The Show Is ‘Like Pulling The Curtain Down’

WWE Unreal’s director talks the show and how it is actually ‘pulling the curtain down’ on the industry.

On July 29th, WWE Unreal launched on Netflix as the company allowed Netflix to go behind the scenes of their creative process with interviews from Triple H and the WWE superstars who bring the show’s characters to life.

While speaking to Jimmy V3 in a recent interview prior to the launch of the show, WWE Unreal Season 1 director Chris Weaver talked about the project was not just ‘pulling the curtain back’ but actually ‘pulling the curtain down’.

“So, walking into this project, I knew that wrestling historically was pretty tight-lipped and wanted to keep things under wraps for both they want to keep their stories and their reveals secret. Plus, just like you said, the mystery of what they’re doing. I think they’ve accepted that, the world knows this is scripted. It’s episodic television. Maybe we can get even more fans to want to enjoy this if they know a little bit more about the people that make it possible. So very deep dive. People actually said, oh, so we’re going to peek behind the curtain. I’m like, no, this isn’t just a peek behind the curtain. This is like pulling the curtain down. They were very open. They, we said, ‘let us shoot as much as we possibly can.’ and they did that. They were very warm and receiving and they made us feel like part of the group when we go out on the road or when we go into Stanford, their headquarters in Stanford. So yeah, this is going places that no one’s ever really been with cameras. In fact, one of the first events we shot, we were going and shooting some different things, and even like internal people at WWE were like, ‘whoa, you’re going to shoot that?’ and that’s when I knew, we’re onto something here. We got something special.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Weaver spoke about how he believed that bringing in new fans was WWE’s goal with the series. You can read more about that here.

Elsewhere in another recent interview, Rhea Ripley spoke about what she hoped fans will take away from the series when it launches. You can read more about that here.

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