Leaking one of Roman Reigns’ pictures got a Hollywood star into trouble once.
Earlier last year, after WrestleMania 40, Roman Reigns went completely missing from WWE television before making his grand return at SummerSlam. While speculations began about his departure, it was later confirmed that Reigns was busy filming for a Hollywood movie.
Soon, Hollywood star Keke Palmer leaked a picture of Roman Reigns from the sets of The Pickup on Snapchat, which went viral on social media and confirmed his role in the film. With the Prime Video heist film now out on the streaming platform, Palmer recently appeared for an interview with Screen Rant Plus and revealed how she got into trouble for sharing the picture.
Oh my gosh, he was so sweet. I used to love wrestling back in the day. I mean, I was like, ‘Do you smell what The Rock is cooking?’ So, it was cool to, like, okay, connect and then I remember I did something with John Cena too. Shout out to wrestling. I know a little something, something. But yeah, Roman Reigns was really sweet, cool guy. It was great to have him in that cameo and I got in so much trouble for that Snapchat. I didn’t know that Roman was really that guy like that. I told you I been out the wrestling game for a minute so, I blew up his spot real big.”
[H/t Fightful]
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Roman Reigns Discusses Possible Hollywood Career
Last year, during an interview with Sports Illustrated, Roman Reigns opened up about the possibility of joining Hollywood as an actor, similar to The Rock, John Cena, and Batista:
I think there’s a lot of — I’ve said this before, there are a lot of tools and skills that I’ve built and learned along my way in WWE that it would probably be a waste if I didn’t somewhat transition and use these skills.
I don’t know if I want to go the full extent of Dwayne [Johnson] or John [Cena], Dave [Bautista] is very busy as well [but] he seems to have a little more balance in the way he conducts his schedule, maybe, but you can tell he wants to be that guy too.
I want to make good — if I’m going to make movies, I want to make really good movies. I want to be part of really good stories, I want to work with really good crew — directors and production teams who know what I’m doing. I want to work with other experienced actors.”
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