WWE Star Was Filming For Disney+ Show During Major 2022 Storyline

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WWE star Edge has commented on his experience working on the upcoming Percy Jackson Disney+ TV series.

Edge was officially announced for the highly anticipated series in October, billed under his real name, Adam Copeland.

The Rated-R Superstar will play Ares in the project based on the best-selling fantasy novel series.

Speaking on After The Bell, Edge noted that he was out filming in Vancouver, Canada, ahead of his I Quit match with Finn Balor at Extreme Rules in October.

Happy that he was able to work with WWE and Disney at the same time, Edge said:

“I’ve still been taking the occasional auditions if I think in terms of time frame that it could possibly pan out.

“I mean, thankfully, gosh, the company has been so good with me throughout it all and making sure that the time can be carved out to make certain things happen.”

“So I read to play Ares, the god of war on Disney Plus. They are doing a Percy Jackson television series. The author of the books is also an executive producer. He’s on board.

“He wasn’t on board with the movies. He’s on board with this. He wrote some of the script. So the fan base is like, ‘Rick’s involved. This is going to be the way Rick wanted it.’

“So I read for it, forgot about it as you do with auditions. This is what you do. Then, I guess about two months later, I had a Zoom meeting with all the executive producers and they said, ‘Okay, when you get out to Vancouver’, and I went, ‘Oh, I got it?’ They’re like, ‘Yeah.’ ‘Oh crap. I better talk to everybody then.'”

“Thankfully, everybody, we were able to figure it out and make it work within the story, and if anything it added gas to The Judgment Day because you know, from the I Quit match, I really did the bulk of my work for Percy Jackson.

“But even the week before the I Quit match, I was out in Vancouver filming all that week, a month actually. It was such a blast.”

“If you had told me at 49 years old, that I’m going to be working for WWE and Disney at the same time, come on. I’ve been so lucky, and there’s been work involved.

“Don’t get me wrong. But I’ve done so many things that I can check off a list that wouldn’t have even been on the list because I would assume they’re absolutely impossible, yet, they are.”

Edge has now revealed the backstage origins of Judgment Day, which you can read more about right here.

Transcription via WrestlingNews.co. 

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