Former WWE Star Discusses Stress Of Wrestling Alison Brie For GLOW

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A former WWE star has discussed the stress of wrestling Alison Brie for Netflix’s GLOW.

The wrestling-inspired series, Netflix’s GLOW was based on the 1980s Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling and first made its way onto the subscription service in 2017.

Despite being renewed for a fourth season, Netflix decided to pull the show in 2020 when production was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaking with the Comedy Store Wrestling podcast, current IMPACT Knockouts Tag Team Champion Taya Valkyrie discussed having already completed film scenes for the series before the cancellation and how “stressful” it was stepping in the ring with other actresses.

In regards to working with actress Alison Brie, Taya said:

“I was, like, wrestling Alison Brie, and I’m like, ‘Don’t drop her. Don’t drop her. Don’t drop her,'”

“[She was] so nice. You know, we choreographed everything in a way that it was as safe as possible. I just remember John [Morrison] coming to watch me film on the day we were doing the in-ring stuff.”

“And he’s like, ‘How many times did you do that?’ I go, ‘A lot.’ Because it’s so different filming wrestling for a show like that than it is to just have the match and be over,” she added. “I loved it. I could have done that forever.”

Alison Brie played the lead role in GLOW of Ruth Wilder, who portrayed the wrestling persona Zoya the Destroya, a fictional Russian-born wrestler generally based on actual GLOW wrestler Colonel Ninotchka. Ninotchka held the GLOW championship for 189 days.

Valkyrie will compete in six-woman tag team action with her Death Dollz teammates Rosemary and JesSICKa against Tasha Steelz, Savannah Evans and Gisele Shaw at IMPACT Hard To Kill on January 13.

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