Alexa Bliss was recently a guest on Talk is Jericho, hosted by WWE star: Chris Jericho. She spoke on a wide variety of topics about her WWE career. One of the most interesting parts was when she spoke about her anxiety regarding turning heel for the first time.
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Many fans know Alexa as the amazing heel that she is today. You might not know that she made her debut as a fairy type character that would blow pixie dust at the camera in NXT.
Here was her experience when she was told that she was turning heel in NXT:
“When I first was told that I was turning heel I had such mad anxiety because the character that I portrayed before that was very bubbly, very fairy princess completely not relatable whatsoever. And when I was told I was turning heel I had mad anxiety over it because I was like ‘oh my gosh, I don’t know how to be mean. I don’t know how to literally just make someone just like hate me.’ I would have anxiety over it. We would do heat drills and stuff in the [WWE Performance Center] and there were times when I would stop and start crying. Like oh my gosh, I don’t know what I’m doing!”
After Jericho wasn’t sure what she meant by ‘heat drill’, she explained in more detail:
“Yeah, it’s where you would basically practice being mean and putting heat on somebody. So you grab your opponent, put some heat on them, you would say something mean and then keep going. So basically trying to fit your character within little spots and where to put it [in a match]. It’s a really cool drill, but I would have mad anxiety like ‘oh my gosh.’ But then once I got used to it, it just became so much more fun and now I’m like ‘I’m having so much more fun than I ever did.’ It’s so fun. I love it.”
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Hard to imagine the Alexa Bliss that we know today struggling with being an effective heel. Just shows how much she has progressed over the past few years and how well NXT works!
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