10 Things We Learned From Mark Henry On Stone Cold's Broken Skull Sessions

2. Why He Was Worried About His New Character

Initially, Henry was tentative about playing his new bullying 'Hall Of Pain' character for multiple reasons.

Firstly, he was worried he wouldn't be able to control himself - he'd genuinely been angry when ribbed, and thought it'd be a bad time for everyone if he got that mad again. McMahon assured him that he'd learn to discipline himself, and he was right.

Mark was also fretting about the message his character would sent to young kids though. He adores entertaining children (and apparently scarring them for life by impregnating pensioners with oversized human hands, but that's another story), and didn't want them to see the negative stigma of, "big black dude scaring everybody else".

It took him a while to realise that he could separate the gimmick he played on WWE television with the person he was around kids at signings, personal appearances etc. It's clear when listening to Mark talk about this stuff that he took a long time to find his comfort zone as a performer.