It’s certainly not uncommon for WWE stars to cross over to Hollywood nowadays. Seth Rollins managed to land a role in Captain America: Brave New World which premieres next week, but the former WWE Champion recently confirmed that his role had been cut from the film.
Ahead of the film’s release director Julius Onah spoke to Chris Killian of Comicbook.com and he shared some details regarding why Seth Rollins won’t be appearing in the movie.
“When you’re taking characters like Serpent Society from publishing, who, as you know, are individuals dressed up as snakes and have snake-adjacent powers, you’re always iterating and trying to figure out the version that totally works best in a movie like this.
I love Seth, Seth’s incredible. But as we were evolving and we knew we had an additional photography period, just one that we did early on in the process that’s planned. We were trying to figure out, ‘Hey, who’s somebody that can bring a very specific kind of gravitas that works with this tone.’ When Giancarlo [Esposito] became available, it was such a no-brainer.
I have a very particular history with him. He’s iconic for working with Spike Lee. I interned with Spike Lee when I was 19 years old. Of course, fans have been fan-casting him for a long time in the MCU. So it’s really about making sure that all the elements worked in the grounded tone and vision that I have for this film. As we evolved and iterated, Giancarlo just made sense. What a blessing to have in this film.”
While Seth won’t be appearing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe any time soon, it seems that he’s set for a huge match at WrestleMania this year and you can get more details on that here.