Have you wondered how Paul Heyman was able to pull off such a tremendous performance on the night Solo Sikoa and Bloodline 2.0 sent him through a table?
Apparently, the “Wiseman” of the Tribal Chief went into method actor mode by eating like shit for a week and not sleeping before the big show in Madison Square Garden.
“If I had a good night's rest, and I had a nice meal in the morning and I got a little sweat going in the afternoon and I warmed up and I'm clean shaven and my suit fits perfectly, and you just feel right walking out there in Madison Square Garden going, 'I'm (Frank) Sinatra.” Paul Heyman explained to Logan Paul on Impulsive. "I feel great.' That's hard to cry. But if I've been up for an entire night or a night and a half. If I got 90 minutes of sleep and I intentionally woke myself up. Didn't shave for several days. Didn't wash my hair for several days. Little more grey grows in. Took the stuff that washes the dye out of your hair so that more grey is showing.
I wanted the aging process for a week to be really defined. Ate like shit the whole week. Stuff that would upset my stomach. I intentionally ate things that I knew (would upset me). If there are spices that don't agree with you, I ate those, just so that my skin color was off. Wore no makeup. Intentionally wore a suit that didn't fit me as well. I wanted people to go, 'You're okay, right?' Therefore, it wasn't difficult for me. When it's time for me to say, 'You're not my Tribal Chief,' and I'm in tears, and I'm bawling, it's easy for me because I'm worn out. I feel awful. I just feel like crap out there, but you have the adrenaline rush because we could feel the audience was with us."
Heyman explained further why he went to great lengths to give the performance of a lifetime during that segment. The WWE Hall of Famer doesn’t consider himself to be a great actor, so Heyman feels that he needs to rely on helping himself in order to give such an incredible performance.
“Why I did it is because that's what the story needed. Why I did it, personally, is because I'm not that good of an actor. I'm not. I have to rely on helping myself get through the presentation so people look and go, 'This dude is really stressed out,'" Heyman said.
It’s interesting that Heyman doesn’t feel that he’s a good actor, yet he employs the same tactics from some of the best actors in Hollywood. Plus, you'll be hard pressed to find a terrible Paul Heyman promo or segment because he’s so darn good as a performer.