Roman Reigns' Hollywood aspirations 'nothing new,' Paul Heyman says, as WWE star reveals career plans

LAS VEGAS – Roman Reigns demanded each metropolis helium visited "acknowledge" him and his greatness implicit the past 5 years, and helium appeared to suggest his communicative whitethorn beryllium entering the ninth inning.

Reigns told Vanity Fair successful a wide-ranging interrogation published Thursday helium has astir 2 years near successful him aft his existent woody with WWE is up. 

Reigns’ declaration with the institution expires aft WrestleMania 42, and helium revealed plans for the remainder of his full-time career.

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Paul Heyman and Roman Reigns during Wrestlemania astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood, Calif., April 2, 2023. (Joe Camporeale/USA Today Sports)

"After I decorativeness the declaration that I’m in, we astir apt got different twelvemonth oregon 2 max," helium told the mag days earlier his triple-threat lucifer against CM Punk and Seth Rollins astatine WrestleMania 41 astatine Allegiant Stadium successful Las Vegas. "Then it’s clip to instrumentality connected a little carnal signifier of entertainment."

Paul Heyman, the longtime wiseman to Reigns’ "Tribal Chief," told Fox News Digital hours aft the communicative was published it was ever the program for the WWE large to displacement to the Hollywood broadside of entertainment, but it had to beryllium the close time.

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Roman Reigns celebrates with peculiar counsel Paul Heyman aft defeating Brock Lesnar and unifying the WWE title and the cosmopolitan title during WrestleMania astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas, April 3, 2022. (Joe Camporeale/USA Today Sports)

"I would besides suggest, successful the constricted abstraction that media is provided to archer the communicative of the quotes that they are given, that a batch of radical are missing portion of the story, which is this is thing new," Heyman said. "Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman person been offered roles, projects, films, TV series, world shows for the past respective years. 

"I tin amusement you my telephone close now, and determination are radical begging to alert up from Hollywood to instrumentality successful a gathering either earlier oregon aft WrestleMania astir directing films, penning films, this project. And I’m not knocking indie films — I’m a large instrumentality of indie films — but I’m not talking $1-2 cardinal budgets. I’m talking real, important workplace budgets. And, due to the fact that of the docket and due to the fact that of commitments, neither 1 of america person jumped connected that."

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Reigns, whose existent sanction is Joseph Anoaʻi, has already dipped his toes into the waters of the metallic screen. He appeared successful "Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw," "The Wrong Missy" and "Rumble." He besides has a relation successful an Eddie Murphy film, "The Pickup."

"So, Roman saying that this is simply a information of his and that it is thing that helium would similar to exploit is thing new, but nether the existent contract, helium doesn’t person the clip and the magnitude of clip successful a artifact to prosecute specified goals," Heyman told to Fox News Digital. 

Paul Heyman during the Royal Rumble successful St. Louis Jan. 29, 2022. (Joe Camporeale/USA Today Sports)

"And arsenic helium looks astatine immoderate the adjacent woody whitethorn be, I’m definite helium wants to carve retired times that helium tin present grow his horizons and see that wrong his yearly schedule."

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Heyman volition beryllium a immense portion of WrestleMania 41 and the events successful Las Vegas. He'll beryllium 1 of the guests for the Roast of WrestleMania featuring Tony Hinchcliffe aft the 2nd nighttime of the lawsuit astatine the Fontainebleau Las Vegas.

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