Becky Lynch reflects on studying Clown in college before starting her WWE career
While speaking to Bert Kreischer, WWE star Becky Lynch reflected on studying Clown in college before starting her WWE career…
“Well, I studied Clown. Yeah. In Colombia. I studied Clown. More just, yeah, the nose and the embodiment of the Clown. Just the mask work.”
“I’d given up wrestling at the age of 19 because I felt like what I wanted to do wasn’t going to be possible. You know, I wanted to be taken seriously. I wanted to wrestle, and I didn’t see an outlet for it in the mainstream. So I had left home at 18. I was living in Canada. I was wrestling over there. I was wrestling in Japan. I was coming to America. I was wrestling here. But WWE was very much models, and it was pillow fights, it was mud wrestling matches, it was all the stuff that I didn’t want to do, nobody would want to see me do.”
“But anyway, my mom was like, ‘What’s your plan? What are you doing?’ And I couldn’t point to anything and say, ‘This is, you know, this is what I’m going to do.’ If I pointed at WWE anytime when she came in and she’d see what the women were doing, she’d avert her eyes and walk out like, ‘Oh, God, what is this?'”
“So I went back to college and I did my degree in acting, and I went to Columbia College. And then at the end of the semester I was in physical theater, and this teacher, this little Italian woman, brings in the Clown nose. And everybody just stood up there, and she wouldn’t let you do anything, and you just had to stand there, and like everybody just started crying. And I was like, ‘What is this? What is this thing?’ And so then I became fascinated with it, and I ended up doing my thesis on it. On Clown— On how Clown can bring out a truthful performance. I loved it.”