Alan Angels talks Brodie Lee and his hesitancy to do bits on Being The Elite.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Being The Elite underwent a lot of different changes and formats. As a result, the Dark Order ended up becoming a permenant fixture on the show every week, with members such as John Silver, Evil Uno, and 10 all benefiting from the extra screen time.
According to Alan Angels, Brodie Lee, who was the leader of Dark Order for almost nine months, was hesitant about the group doing skits on the show at first. On a recent episode of Talk Is Jericho, Alan Angels talked about the situation in length.
"It started with Alex [Reynolds] and [John] Silver who were kinda doing the recruitment bits or whatever. Eventually, they got Brodie involved and Brodie was very hesitant about it at first because he wanted to be taken as this serious heel. He was kind of hesitant about it and stuff but once he did a few, he was like ‘Okay, I got this’. He could still be taken as this serious character, it was just the [rest of the Dark Order] who were lackees. We feared him and all this stuff, but kinda in a more comical way where on TV it was almost a more serious thing. Eventually, we started to do more BTE stuff on TV which I thought was pretty cool. The casket bit if you remember, he had just beat Cody for the TNT Title. Me, Silver, Reynolds and them bring out this casket while doing this little silly dance or whatever and we open the casket and it’s supposed to be Cody Rhodes in there but we open it and it’s Vance. He gets up and he flexes and to me it was so funny because it was a BTE bit that made it on to TV. It was at that point where Brodie thought ‘Okay, this could be something very cool’."
As of September 2022, the Dark Order is still featured almost weekly on Being The Elite, which is currently on hiatus. To learn more about the hiatus, click here.
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