Starring Don Johnson (Knives Out) and Olga Kurylenko (Black Widow), High Heat follows an ex-KGB operative turned chef, Ana (Kurylenko) who is targeted by the local mafia in a hit on her new restaurant to collect on her husband's (Johnson) debt.
Now, Ana must rely upon her lethal skills as she goes on a deadly rampage to take out the entire crime syndicate one-by-one, to save her restaurant and survive the night in this action-packed crime thriller from Saban Films and Paramount Pictures.
Playing the movie's big bad is WWE Hall of Famer Diamond Dallas Page. You can read the full interview by clicking here, but while we had DDP on Zoom, we couldn't resist asking the WCW Legend about potentially stepping back into the ring.
After all, he wowed fans in 2020 when he teamed with Dustin Rhodes and Q. T. Marshall to take on MJF and The Butcher and The Blade at AEW's Bash at the Beach. While that currently looks set to serve as DDP's last match, he hit one of his patented Diamond Cutters on Matt Cardona earlier this year, leaving fans to wonder whether he still has some fight left in him.
Below, Page reflects on those experiences and reveals that, while they would be hard to top, he was at least a little tempted when WWE Superstar Randy Orton recently got in touch to suggest they step into the ring together.
The RKO vs. DDP's Diamond Cutter? Sign us up for that...
Ric Flair received a lot of attention for his last match this year, and as much as I loved what you did in AEW, is that it for you, or is there a dream opponent you still have in mind for one final singles match?
You know, Cody [Rhodes] asked me right after we got done, because it was such a huge success and big for the ratings - everything came off perfect, you know? - ‘Would you consider one more time?’ I said, ‘How do you top that?’ You have to understand, I was managing Badd Company in the AWA and we had a feud with the Guerreros, and there’s a picture out there somewhere of Mondo Guerrero running at the turnbuckle, and I’d never seen this before, run up the turnbuckle and eject. I don’t know he’s coming down on us, and Paul Diamond and Pat Tanaka were saying ‘Catch him, catch him, catch him!’ I had no idea! Oh my God! That was one of my first days in professional wrestling as a manager, and if that was the last thing that I do and it becomes part of my reel…I don’t know if I could top it.
At Flair’s thing, I did something with Matt Cardona, the Broski, and hit a Diamond Cutter. It got a huge pop, but what was really cool was I got a DM from Randy Orton. Randy has always been my guy. To me, he’s one of the greatest of all time, especially the career he’s had from 22 to his 40s today. He’s had a fairytale dream career and he should be on a Mount Rushmore because he’s that good. I’ve said that, and he told me, ‘I’ve heard you said some things about me. Thank you so much for the accolades. I saw that Diamond Cutter at Flair’s final match and immediately Googled your age and thought to myself ‘Bravo’ that you can still look as good as you do and be able to do what you do and be healthy. That’s number one when all is said and done.’ Then he added, ‘The money is number one’ and I just started laughing. He asked, ‘How is your body now?’ Because of DDP Yoga and my lifestyle…I still drink, I still eat meat. I just don’t abuse myself and go out of my way to ice baths to infrared saunas to hyperbaric chambers.
WWE just did an A&E biography on me and they wanted to know what it’s like being DDP and getting out of bed in the morning. The first shot of me they’ve got is me getting out of a hyperbaric chamber, getting on this bike which is oxygen deprivation so it’s like I’m training at 22,000 feet! Then, I get on the mat, and do DDPY, then I’ve come up with this whole new workout around power cuffs. I used to have Jacked Straps, but this is the new and improved next level of training. I’m telling you right now, I’m going to change the face of fitness. People love my DDP Yoga programme, but there are certain guys who just have to lift weights no matter what. This training programme is going not just take you to a different level with weights, but with one-third the weight and half the time. I’ve been working on it for the last nine months, so that will change everything.
High Heat arrives in theaters, on Digital, and On Demand on December 16, 2022.