(VIDEO): Lana Talks all Things WWE, Vince McMahon, and NXT!!

Vince McMahon taught Lana to keep "evolving": “I’ve learned so many things from Vince McMahon, I mean he’s just like...knowledge of stuff...But like one thing he told me, about even like my character...Lana, of being like..I have to, Lana has to evolve, just like as humans we have to keep on evolving and keep on changing, and we should never stop changing, and we should never stop evolving, and I was like, ‘woah, that’s really deep, let me take that with me for life!’”

 

Triple H & Dusty Rhodes came up with Lana's persona by having her watch Rocky IV: “Triple H actually was a big person and Dusty Rhodes um talk, telling me to uh watch Rocky IV and um, instantly I was like, ‘Is that? You want me to be this? You want me to be that serious person?’ Because I feel like I’m a light-hearted person, I love comedy, and even all the stuff I was doing at WWE when I first came to developmental was, everything was more like light-hearted stuff, so I’m like, ‘Rocky IV?’...But that’s what we did when I saw it, we tried it, started doing that influence…I watched it a lot."

 

Lana is training to wrestle during her free time at NXT: "I don’t like to overly plan life but I’ve trained, I’ve been training since the beginning of getting there and so it’s like would like to reap the reward of all like those days off that I go, I mean I go to the NXT a lot, all the time, and I don’t have days off and I’m there training or coming early to the live events so of course I would like to have a match at some point, um but it’s all about the story so I want to and I don’t have to rush it, it doesn’t have to be tomorrow, even though if Vince McMahon needs it tomorrow, if I have to have a singles, then we’ll do it. "

 

Watch the interview in it's entirety below: