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#2 Chris Jericho in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019)
Chris Jericho is probably the best heel in professional wrestling today. His time in WWE has made him a legend. His current status in AEW has only solidified that claim with his tenacity, charisma, and quick delivery and dedication to the craft.
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While Jericho has starred in other films and even been on Dancing with the Stars, this role was a different one to all that he had done before. Jericho was cast in a small but essential role as a leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.
Written and directed by Kevin Smith, the film is another entry from the franchise that started Smith's career. The film stars himself, Jason Mewes, and features cameos from several Hollywood stars like Ben Affleck.
In interviews, Kevin Smith had stated he had never really been a massive fan of wrestling and never actually saw Chris Jericho's work. He only knew of him vaguely through podcasting and a couple of other things. He said:
"I dug him and saw that he was a good dude so I wanted to put him in something. So when I put him in something, I kept casting him as a bad guy. In Kilroy he plays a real piece of sh*t and in the Jay and Silent Bob reboot, he was the klan leader. I hadn't seen Chris wrestle and didn't know his personality. So, I thought I was clever by casting this sweet kid as a bad guy as no one would ever think to do that."
Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes would eventually make their way to be on the premiere episode of AEW Dynamite to promote their film. In what could be best described as the first casualties in the wrestling war, both Smith and Mewes were scheduled to be on WWE SmackDown the same week, but the offer was pulled. He said:
"It's nice to know you're wanted by both camps. But the morning after we did AEW and were trending, my publicist said that WWE pulled their offer. They weren't sh*tty about it, but they said you guys were all over AEW last night and that would be weird for them if two days later you were all over WWE. They said that down the road we could revisit this, but it's not gonna happen Friday."
With that said, Jericho's film performance was highly praised playing a villainous character who gets his comeuppance at the end of the scene. So, in a sense, it's no different from his WWE days nor his current AEW role.
