CM Punk recently shared his mindset on how to properly play a heel character. The WWE star touched on the topic in his appearance on the No-Contest Wrestling Podcast and spoke about how it’s important to be a true bad guy when opposite a babyface. You can see highlights below, Wrestling Inc:
On the risks of being a popular babyface: “I do think it’s dangerous. If your role is to be ‘the bad guy,’ you have to be this dragon for the good guy to slay. I think where you can maybe falter is thinking ‘Oh, there’s pockets of people that are cheering me. I want them to cheer me.’ When I’m a bad guy, I do not want people to cheer me. I don’t… Everybody wants to be Jack Burton, Han Solo, Indiana Jones. He’s not completely White Hat but if you know what you’re doing, and to me that’s the art behind it, is doing that but still maintaining that bad guy slant.”
On his old Straight Edge Society character: “I can walk into a high school and talk to kids about not doing drugs and I’m a good guy, or I can walk into an arena, sold out, and talk to people about not doing drugs and I’m a bad guy,” Punk chuckled. “Preachy, people don’t like it. Nobody likes a finger wagged in their face.”
