7. The Miz Returns As A Movie Star; Summer Rae Returns As A Jilted Lover
WWE StudiosEarlier this spring, both The Miz and Summer Rae took some time off from WWE to film
The Marine 4: Moving Target (coming soon to a DVD player near you). Recently, both have returned to television, but they came back in very different ways. Summer Rae returned first, frustrated at being dumped by Fandango via Twitter. She has since engaged in a seemingly stalled feud with Fandangos new squeeze, Layla. When The Miz showed up last week, he had embraced his Hollywood credentials and taken on the persona of an A-list movie star, almost a poor mans circa-2003 Rock. That is not meant as a slight or even a suggestion that its a bad gimmick, but considering that a fellow superstar appeared in the same movie, why wouldn't both be looped in or at least mention that Summer Rae had a role in the film and acting didn't go to her head. Where things really could take an odd turn is when WWE does the inevitable ads for
The Marine 4 and has cast members and the director praising Miz for his work, while hes playing guy were all supposed to hate. The truth is, WWE has had several wrestlers try their hand at acting Kane, John Cena, Randy Orton, Big Show and Ted DiBiase and none of them came back with a Hollywood gimmick. And thats for good reason. Fans dont tune in to watch wrestlers who took a month off to star in a direct-to-video movie gloat about how theyre a major film star. At least when The Rock did it, he had starred in a film that grossed nine figures. And its somewhat incongruous for WWE to tell fans to boo The Miz on Raw, but pay to own his latest movie.