Triple H talks about the creative process behind John Cena turning heel.
At WWE Elimination Chamber on March 1st, the show closed with Cody Rhodes rejecting The Rock's offer to sell his soul. However, John Cena would take the offer, attacking Cody and laying him out with the assistance of The Rock and Travis Scott.
While speaking during the post Elimination Chamber press conference, Triple H was asked about the creative process surrounding the heel turn and closing segment of the Premium Live Event.
"Like everything we do, I’m a really big proponent of collaboration. I want all the ideas. I want to throw them all out on the table. I want us to look at all of them and then begin to have conversations around, ‘What is the best thing?’ Then start to think of, ‘Out of those things, how can we tear those up, blow them up and go in a completely different direction that nobody will see.’ It’s hard sometimes to think of things nobody sees because nobody sees it. That includes you, when you’re doing it. At some point in time, little germs of ideas come in and ‘What if? What if?’ And it just begins to percolate. I’m fortunate in this timeframe that I have some of the great minds to work with. Dwayne and I have been working together for almost 30 years in some manner here. He’s always been an epic storyteller and an epic guy to get outside of the box and let’s do something different. How can we blow this up and change expectations. How can we make this something that no one has ever seen before. It’s really easy to go, ‘I saw this once. Let’s do this angle or that.’ That’s easy. Going into uncharted waters and trying things out that have never been done before or done in a different way, things that people won’t see coming, that’s a lot different and more challenging. You need everybody’s ideas and thought processes. It starts with a bunch of people coming up with great ideas to try to entertain our fans and lead them in a direction and jerk them into another direction when they don’t see it coming, if we can do that. People are pretty savvy, so they are tuned in to a lot of stuff we do and they sense things coming and it’s why we get so upset when we see spoilers and things leak. Believe me, half of the things that are spoilers and leak are wrong, but when you do get the ones that are out there, it drives you nuts. The one thing about tonight that I loved that it was nowhere. Nobody knew. When I say nobody knew, nobody. Right before the finish of the Elimination Chamber, I had to say to the truck, ‘Everybody lay out, I have all traffic on where we go next.’ Nobody knew what was coming. It was a very tight circle of people because we’re just trying to entertain people and doing it in a way that is amazing and next level and they don’t see coming. Where does it start? It starts with a group of people that just love this. It’s in Rock’s blood. The goosebumps aren’t manufactured. That’s him. There is a massive group of people here, internally at WWE, talent and everything, that is how they are. They live, breathe, sleep this, and want it to be epic. We start there and it escalates. It’s a team effort that I’m incredibly proud of."
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