{"id":59029,"date":"2019-12-06T18:39:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T23:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=59029"},"modified":"2019-12-07T17:49:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T22:49:59","slug":"natalya-states-wrestler-2-coming-featuring-jason-mamoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/12\/06\/natalya-states-wrestler-2-coming-featuring-jason-mamoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalya States Wrestler 2 Coming Featuring Jason Momoa (UPDATE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>UPDATE, DECEMBER 7: After all the buzz late in the week of a potential Wrestler 2 film due to Natalya&#8217;s comments on this week&#8217;s Total Divas, Natalya has come forth to contend that she found out after the filming she was a victim of catfishing and it wasn&#8217;t the real Jason Momoa.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Well&#8230;&#8230;we should further clarify&#8230;.while filming <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TotalDivas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TotalDivas<\/a> I was \u201ccatfished\u201d lol by a guy pretending to be Jason Momoa. It was a pretty hilarious situation and a long story!\ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2640\ufe0f @SonyaDevilleWWE definitely wants me to tell the story OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!! \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vHSxcxCqiJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/vHSxcxCqiJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nattie (@NatbyNature) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NatbyNature\/status\/1202807120808357889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In an extra clip from this past week&#8217;s <em><strong>Total Divas<\/strong><\/em>, WWE Superstar <strong>Natalya<\/strong> dropped the news that she has been approached to appear in <em><strong>The Wrestler 2<\/strong><\/em>, a sequel to the 2008 sleeper hit <strong>The Wrestler<\/strong>, from director <strong>Daren Aranofsky<\/strong> and starring <strong>Mickey Rourke.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>The Wrestler\u00a0<\/em>became one of the year&#8217;s most popular films and resurrected Mickey Rourke&#8217;s acting career, garnering an Oscar nod for Best Actor and taking home the same award at The Golden Globes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Natalya has been asked to star in a movie with Jason Momoa: Total Divas Bonus Clip, Dec. 3, 2019\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ec1_vDxu_Hk?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>The Wrestler\u00a0<\/em>painted a painfully accurate picture of the trials and tribulations of former 80s stars trying to navigate the indie scene after working stadiums and tens of thousands of fans, but the ending pretty much left off with Rourke&#8217;s <strong>Randy The Ram<\/strong> putting his body on the line once again after being told it could mean his life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday <strong>Bret (Hart)<\/strong> got a call from this guy about being in a new movie that they\u2019re making called <em>The Wrestler 2.\u00a0<\/em>And I didn\u2019t know until I googled him, but he\u2019s actor <strong>Jason Momoa<\/strong>\u2026So this morning I talked to Jason. He wants me to star in the movie with him. He wants me to be his ex-lover,&#8221; she told her castmates in the clip. &#8220;Once I found out who Jason Momoa is, I\u2019m like, \u2018this is pretty cool.\u2019 He\u2019s a really big star. He\u2019s an actor who has been on <em><strong>Game of Thrones<\/strong><\/em>, he was in that movie <em><strong>Aquaman<\/strong><\/em>. So, the fact that he is now interested in having me in the movie is huge!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Wrestler - Official Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/61-GFxjTyV0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>The Wrestler\u00a0<\/em>featured plenty of actual wrestlers in its film, including WWE&#8217;s <strong>R-Truth<\/strong> and <strong>Cesaro<\/strong>, plus former WCW Superstar <strong>Ernest &#8220;The Cat&#8221; Miller<\/strong> and many other stars like <strong>Jay Lethal, Nigel McGuinness, Necro Butcher<\/strong>, and AEW&#8217;s <strong>Chuck Taylor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the film is still going to happen (the scene was taped months ago) is still going ahead is yet to be determined, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/videos\/natalya-reveals-she-has-been-asked-to-star-in-a-movie-with-jason-momoa-total-divas-bonus-clip\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE also mentioned it on their official website<\/a>. While it sounds like it could be direct to DVD type of movie, Mamoa&#8217;s stock has definitely exploded since his role of Aquaman proved to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/travisbean\/2019\/10\/21\/box-office-where-joker-currently-ranks-amongst-all-dc-films\/#7f002f927ad4\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DC&#8217;s biggest movie ever<\/a>, garnering $1.148 billion worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE, DECEMBER 7: After all the buzz late in the week of a potential Wrestler 2 film due to Natalya&#8217;s comments on this week&#8217;s Total Divas, Natalya has come forth to contend that she found out after the filming she was a victim of catfishing and it wasn&#8217;t the real Jason Momoa. 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