Mercedes Moné Says Experience On ‘The Mandalorian’ Led To One Of Her Best Years In Wrestling

Mercedes Moné Says Experience On ‘The Mandalorian’ Led To One Of Her Best Years In Wrestling Disney +

Mercedes Moné says her experience on “The Mandalorian” led to one of her best years in wrestling.

In October 2020, Moné appeared as Koska Reeves in two episodes of the second season of “The Mandalorian”. At the time, Mercedes was known as Sasha Banks in WWE and was one of the company’s top stars.

In the same month, Banks defeated Bayley to win the SmackDown Women’s Championship at WWE Hell In A Cell 2020. Her run on SmackDown led to the historic main event match with Bianca Belair at WrestleMania 37.

Alongside Katee Sackhoff and Simon Kassianides, Moné participated in “The Mandalorian” cast panel at Emerald City Con (video via Popverse).

Reflecting on her time on the show, Mercedes stated that her experience led to the stretch between 2019 and 2020, which was one of the best years of her wrestling career. She said:

“I never experienced anything where you had to repeat yourself over and over and over and over. I’m so used to just one take, live, and then go, and just be like, ‘Okay.’ That’s my anxiety and stress, but I know I can get it done.”

“But to do it 20 times, maybe 40 times, great. Now we have to change angles. Now we have to do it 40 or 50 times on your left side, from the back, to the right, above you, behind you, underneath you.”

“I never, ever experienced that. So to do 14-hour days I would just look at Katee [Sackhoff] and I would just be so blown away. I learned so much from you, and I grew from watching you. I was so empowered by everything you did on set.”

“She knew Bo as a tea that she would go to Jon [Favreau] and Dave [Filoni] and be like, ‘I think Bo would do this or say this.’ I learned so much from Katee because I brought that back to wrestling.”

Using what she learned on the set, Moné revealed that it helped with her character work when she returned to wrestling. She stated:

“I’m like, you have to remember who you are and what you’re gonna bring to the table. You are the character. You’re gonna be this the rest of your life and bring it to people’s viewership.”

“So she knew so much about being a strong woman that I brought that back to wrestling, and I felt like that was one of my best years in wrestling in 2019 and 2020 because of everything I learned from you and Bryce [Dallas Howard].”

In 2022, Moné and her tag team partner Naomi walked out on WWE during the May 16 edition of Raw. The duo were subsequently stripped of their WWE Women’s Tag Team Titles and indefinitely suspended.

Mercedes went on to leave the company, and debuted for NJPW at Wrestle Kingdom 17. At Battle In The Valley last month, Moné defeated KAIRI to win the IWGP Women’s Championship.

Transcription via Fightful

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