{"id":160502619,"date":"2018-01-22T04:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/?p=160502619"},"modified":"2026-08-14T03:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:07:33","slug":"wwes-viktor-talks-twin-peaks-fashion-files-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/?p=160502619","title":{"rendered":"WWE\u2019s Viktor Talks Twin Peaks, Fashion Files & More!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Viktor, from the WWE tag team The Ascension. Twin Peaks fans may be familiar with the Fashion Files, a skit that parodied Twin Peaks on WWE Smackdown in which Viktor was featured. I reached out to him to see if he would be interested in discussing the skits and Twin Peaks, and we wound up talking about quite a bit. I hope you enjoy the interview!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting into Twin Peaks<\/strong>: Actually, it was the Fashion Files segment that got me into it, really. It was something that, honestly, I\u2019ve had friends tell me for years that I should watch. I was trying to remember the first person that told me about the show. When it first came out, I was just a kid. I wasn\u2019t really aware of it at all, but then as I grew up, I can remember a friend of mine telling me when I was like 20. He was like, \u201cYou should really watch this; you\u2019ll like it.\u201d I was like, \u201cOkay.\u201d It was always on my mental list, and when we actually did that Fashion Files, I still had never seen it. I\u2019d had another friend recently, telling me, \u201cHey, you need to watch this, because The Return<\/em> is coming out now. I know you\u2019ll love it, so go watch it.\u201d I was like, \u201cOkay.\u201d It was still like the number one thing on my list to watch, and then once we did that segment, all of us were like what? None of us had ever seen anything from it before. Our writers are the ones who came up with that, and they\u2019re huge fans, and they\u2019ve loved it forever. It was more or less one of the writers, Stevie G, had told me, \u201cIt was my dream to be able to pay tribute to Twin Peaks<\/em> through something.\u201d He goes, \u201cThis was like the perfect medium for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watching the show for the first time<\/strong>: I watched it really quick, because once the writers showed us, \u201cHey, this is what we\u2019re taking this from,\u201d and they showed us some clips on YouTube, normally stuff from the Red Room with the Arm, and the scenes with BOB and stuff. I was like, \u201cHoly crap; I\u2019ve gotta go watch this now.\u201d None of us knew if our fans would get it. Do you know what I mean? We didn\u2019t understand it. If we don\u2019t get it, we\u2019re a little worried that maybe the fans don\u2019t get it. As it turned out the next day, when I landed, all of our social media had blown up. We\u2019re like, \u201cWhoa, this hit mainstream media,\u201d which doesn\u2019t always happen without the help of celebrities and stuff like that, for us. It\u2019s really cool, and I was like, \u201cAlright, I\u2019m going home, and I\u2019m watching it.\u201d Basically, I just tore through everything. Initially, when I watched the first two seasons, I was in love with it. I don\u2019t know. Lately, I\u2019ve started to really appreciate, I guess, older movies and television again. I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s just from getting older or what. It\u2019s just weird because it was something I felt like I\u2019d kinda been looking for. It was older and just the way it is, so different, I couldn\u2019t stop watching it. It was the first thing in a long time, that I sat down to watch, where I wasn\u2019t within 10 minutes of it picking up my iPad to do something else because I\u2019m just drawn into everything. I just loved it immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Season 3<\/strong>: I liked it. Immediately, that was what I said, I was like, \u201cOh, this is like the Lynch that I\u2019m used to.\u201d I remember when me and my buddy first watched Lost Highway<\/em>. Within five minutes, we were like, \u201cDid that just happen because this is so weird.\u201d It made my brain do something I didn\u2019t expect it to. Twin Peaks<\/em> kinda has that same effect; I think both ways. The original series, it\u2019s like so innocent, and fun, yet incredibly dark. You know? The new series is just kind of like really dark, and then has its fun stuff, quirky twists to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fashion Files:<\/strong> It had been so weird already for us just being in it. It was kind of a different direction, but it was one that we were totally welcome to, and we were loving being able to do it. It wasn\u2019t like we didn\u2019t like it, we just didn\u2019t understand it. I always try to like watch things somewhere where I can hear the crowd\u2019s reactions that are going on. Based on the live audience, even then it wasn\u2019t like one of those things where I guess, filled with laughs or whatever. It was one of those things where I was like, \u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna happen.\u201d None of us really knew what was gonna happen. When I landed at home the next day, and my phone was going crazy with all this stuff, was just like holy cow, this is so awesome. We just couldn\u2019t believe it. It was more unbelievable than anything. It definitely helped us because we continued with \u201cFashion Files.\u201d I know the week afterward, I think we still kinda parodied more within the third season. We did a couple more, and I believe in a way, it let them really see how well we all worked together in this. It gave us a personality that people have never seen before. That was the biggest thing for us, and that\u2019s really what we had wanted to do for the longest time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think we were pigeonholed before this. This opened up a door creatively, and with our creative department, to be like, \u201cOh wow, we kinda see these guys in a light that we can now work with.\u201d At least it inspires creativity and how to use us as well. I would continuously laugh at Tyler Breeze being dressed up as a girl. Just the relevance of knowing that our writers are such Twin Peaks<\/em> fans and that there was the resemblance with him and Laura Dern played out in that. He looks similar in some of the outfits. I kept telling him; I was like, \u201cDude, you should really watch this.\u201d I don\u2019t think he did. I think Konnor watched most of the first season, but I don\u2019t know if he got any further. During that time, he was having a kid as well. I think that kinda went that way. He goes, \u201cDude, I watched a bit of it. I liked it,\u201d he goes, \u201cI\u2019m just kinda busy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrestling & David Lynch fan crossover<\/strong>: Before, I was always aware of David Lynch, but I wasn\u2019t quite like, I guess I would say, obsessed as I would be now. Not obsessed but I was just so fascinated when I watched Twin Peaks<\/em>. I circled back through everything and watching interviews and stuff; now I\u2019m not surprised at all. There\u2019s a lot of weird stuff that happens within wrestling, and one of those things where a lot of the times we can\u2019t explain why things happen the way that they do, or you know what I mean? It makes perfect sense to me now. Wrestling, when things are done well, and things are done right, we\u2019re all trying to take you on a journey. Lynch\u2019s stuff is doing too, especially with him, it\u2019s more about the journey than the destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theories<\/strong>: Nobody really has the same one. It\u2019s kinda funny when you\u2019re talking about it because everybody kinda seems to take something different. I don\u2019t know if anybody wants to accept the dream theory, they do and they don\u2019t. You know what I mean? I really like the theory that he\u2019s trapped within a dream, but it\u2019s his [Cooper\u2019s] dream. On my flights lately, I\u2019ve started going back and like watching the first season over again. I almost think as I\u2019m watching it, that it\u2019s just Audrey\u2019s dream as well. These are only possibilities. I have a hard time overthinking it while I\u2019m watching it because I enjoy it so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Especially the original, there\u2019s so much stuff in there that I laugh out loud to, all the time. I think the first time I watched was yeah, it was the very last two episodes of the second season; I was in a hotel room by myself just watching it in the dark on an iPad. Some of it was so creepy. When Laura just screams out of nowhere, what the hell? This is dark stuff. It was so good, you know? There\u2019s not a lot of TV shows that really draws you in the way. When I watched the third season, I was just kinda, \u201cOkay, I\u2019m not gonna overanalyze anything.\u201d That would just make me crazy anyway. I was like, \u201cI\u2019ll just try to follow along with what I catch and take it for what it is.\u201d When I read an article afterward, I\u2019m like, \u201cMan, I wasn\u2019t thinking about half of that stuff,\u201d but then I put it together, and now I am thinking about it. I went back, and I got to talk to our writers about everyone has their own theories, and twists and turns to how they think things are, how they felt it was. Even now, if I ever see something or read an interview, I\u2019ll always go to our writers, because they\u2019re always into it too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lasting Impact:<\/strong> That was something that really blew me away. I know it inspired me to look into more stuff about Twin Peaks<\/em>. I know I\u2019m watching it now, but I was like wow. When Laura says to Cooper, \u201d I\u2019ll see you in 25 years,\u201d it\u2019s like wait a minute \u2013 was it really planned for it to be like that? We\u2019ll do what we can now, and 25 years, all come back to it. There\u2019s no way that that\u2019s even humanly possible because 25 years ago, nobody could\u2019ve guessed what was going to happen, you know what I mean? From the state of television today to all the different platforms that they have. When I found out where it was all filmed around, like the original stuff \u2026 We go up there (where Twin Peaks<\/em> was filmed in Washington State) now and then. I was like hopefully if I get time, I\u2019ll go and see what I can see if I can check it out or whatnot. For me, I usually don\u2019t go out and see a lot when we\u2019re on the road. We typically don\u2019t have much time. Even that day, I was pressed to go and see what I can see when I\u2019m there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynch Films:<\/strong> Lost Highway <\/em>is definitely my favorite, so far. I haven\u2019t watched Eraserhead<\/em> yet. There was like a new Blu-ray that came out, that had a bunch of his short films, and other stuff on it. I just saw it the other week. \u201cOh, it\u2019s on sale, and it\u2019s Blu-ray,\u201d I was like, \u201cOkay, I\u2019ll get it. I should watch that one on my TV anyway at home.\u201d So I got that. I haven\u2019t seen Inland Empire<\/em> yet. I haven\u2019t seen Elephant Man<\/em> or Wild at Heart <\/em>either, but I really like Lost Highway<\/em> and Mulholland Drive<\/em>. I went back and watched those two recently because I hadn\u2019t watched them since they both first came out. I really like Blue Velvet<\/em>. That was one that when people told me, \u201cYeah, it\u2019s not gonna be what you expect.\u201d I go, \u201cWell, you can\u2019t really know what to expect with Lynch.\u201d Eraserhead<\/em> I saw\u2026 what was it I was watching? Something just made like a reference to it, and it showed like 10 seconds of like the dinner scene. I was like whoa, all right, that\u2019s gonna be something. I\u2019ve just been kinda waiting until I\u2019m in the right, frame of mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently I was listening to Henry Rollins talking about when he was in Lost Highway<\/em> on his podcast, working with David Lynch. I\u2019ve been a fan of his forever. He said that when he was a kid, and he went and saw Eraserhead in the theater, he goes, \u201cIt was horrifying. It was an awesome movie,\u201d he goes, \u201cBut it was horrifying.\u201d For him, it hit close to him, just like the certain uncomfortableness and whatnot. He goes, \u201cEspecially that dinner scene.\u201d Everything references back to that, so I know I\u2019m gonna need to really have myself ready. It\u2019s one of those things I really want to sit down and watch it, because I know like Lynch has said, it\u2019s his favorite one that he\u2019s ever done. I think once I started just reading more about him or watching his interviews; I wouldn\u2019t like to overthink anything when I watched it. Previously, I remember when I was a kid, and I saw Lost Highway<\/em> and Mulholland Drive<\/em>, and they made my brain shut down. In that scene in Mulholland Drive<\/em> when the box opens, and the little people run out. I remember turning off the movie, because I was like, I lost it, I just couldn\u2019t deal. I remember thinking I was following along, and then when that happened, it just made my brain explode at the moment. I was like, \u201cI have no idea.\u201d In his book, Catching the Big Fish<\/em>, it\u2019s one specific page that just says, Mulholland Drive<\/em>, and it says, \u201cThe box and the key.\u201d I have no idea what that means, and I jumped for joy. I was like, \u201cMan, this is like 15 years later, I\u2019m reading this, and it makes me so happy to know that he didn\u2019t know either.\u201d It was just there. I was like okay, never thinking about anything again when I watch this stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Royal Rumble<\/strong>: It\u2019s the Royal Rumble<\/em>, one of our can\u2019t miss events, by far. I never miss it; I hope I\u2019m in it because to me, it\u2019s one of the legendary greats within our company. It\u2019s one of those that just when I do miss it, it hurts. Because you want to be in it so bad, no matter what, it\u2019s the Royal Rumble<\/em>. When we debuted in our first Pay-Per-View match at the Royal Rumble<\/em> against The New Age Outlaws, that\u2019s one of my favorite things ever. It was at the Royal Rumble<\/em>. I know this one, man with all the talents that we\u2019ve got, it\u2019ll be a great show no matter what. I couldn\u2019t say anything but good things about all of our people that we\u2019ve got, and how bad they want to go. I\u2019m not the only one that says, \u201cI hope I\u2019m in it,\u201d just because of that reason. Everybody wants to be in the Rumble<\/a>; it\u2019s awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dream WrestleMania Opponents:<\/strong> On roster? Oh, man. Immediately, I want to say The Uso\u2019s because ever since I\u2019ve known those guys, I\u2019ve just wanted to see them get their moment on WrestleMania. I would love to be the ones facing them for that. If I could pick from Raw, that\u2019s a tough one. I like The Bar, facing the Hardy Boyz would be awesome. Everybody that they got, and put over there, the Revival being back, we only got to work with them once at NXT, and we didn\u2019t get enough time was our main thing. They\u2019re so good to work with. Great guys. I would pick any of those ones. If I was going to say anybody from the past, definitely it would be Road Warriors or Demolition. Man, I don\u2019t know. There are so many awesome tag teams that I love for so many different reasons: the British Bulldogs, the Hart Foundation, Free Birds. I could go on forever about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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