John Cena recently spoke with Arash Markazi for ESPN.com; you can read a few highlights below:
Cena explains what the series ‘Dallas and Robo‘ is about:
“It’s a good, fun comedy based in the future about this space trucking industry with a human and a member of artificial intelligence who wants to be human and their adventure in space. It’s in that vain of funny, snarky, easygoing and easy to watch.”
Cena says he’s far from done with WWE, despite all of his projects outside of the ring:
“I’m far from done with the WWE. The WWE will always be my home, but in this current state of affairs right now with all this extra cool stuff that’s going on, it’s fun to try. It’s a great time to be able to take a chance and I’m so eternally grateful to the WWE and its audience for bringing me to this point. I realize I’d be nowhere without them and I never forget them. I promise as soon as I have any sort of downtime, like I had when I was at the Greatest Royal Rumble and the string of shows I did before WrestleMania, anytime free time I get will not be free, it will be spent at my home in the WWE.”
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Cena talks about working with The Rock on The Jansen Directive:
“Dwayne is the professional gold standard. He’s the hardest worker in the room and he’s inspiring to everyone and I don’t think he realizes the outreach that he has on people. From a personal standpoint, he’s a friend of mine and a really good one. We had what I would consider a bad year when as a selfish wrestling fan I went after him and his decision-making process to get him back in the wrestling ring. That was so wrong of me but it actually ended in one of the greatest moments in WWE history. So I was very fortunate that it worked out and it was only after that moment that we were both able to communicate with each other the amount of mutual respect we had for each other and from then on it has been a fantastic relationship.
“He doesn’t have to pay me the time of day, but he has always been there for me and he has always given me sound advice, not some sort of reverse psychological thing that will hamstring my career. He has always been very transparent and an ear if I need to ask him something. He always checks in on me as I do him. I really admire what he does, how he operates, who he is, and I couldn’t think of better partner for a project like this and I’m so excited and I know if I know I don’t do a good job, he’ll kick my ass.”
Cena explains why a photo of him growing a beard became the topic of speculation last week:
“I’ve just been put in a peculiar place recently where I’m challenging myself to do things I’ve never done before. I’ve never grown facial hair. I had a few days free, but I since shaved it off before I did the “Today” show. I’m clean shaven and I’ll probably go clean shaven from here on out, but I have some projects coming up that might have called for a look like that and I wanted to make sure before we did it that it was possible and it looked OK.
“‘The Jansen Directive’ script is so intricate and well-written and it calls for a different approach that may call for me to grow facial hair. I’m also fortunate enough to go to China in the near future and work with Jackie Chan on a wonderful movie I’m doing out there and I’m very excited for that. It calls for me to possibly have some facial hair so I didn’t want the first time I tried something like that to be the first time I was doing it. Now I know the process. I know how long it takes, I know what it looks like and it was a cathartic thing to do in a period of self-reflection to do something I’ve never done before and change my routine.”
