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Bill Goldberg Reflects On Life-Changing ‘Santa’s Slay’ Experience
Eleven years ago, Goldberg slayed Christmas.
Prior to making his return to the ring at WWE’s Survivor Series earlier this month, the badass Bill Goldberg wrestled his then-final match back in March of 2004. Goldberg’s extended leave of absence from the wrestling business freed him up to take on a starring role in the 2005 horror flick Santa’s Slay, and reflecting on the film, Goldberg just revealed how it completely changed his life. No, the holiday horror-comedy didn’t turn Goldberg into a Hollywood superstar, but believe it or not, he actually met his future wife while dressed up as a killer Santa Claus!
Speaking with “Good Morning Football,” the former football star told the humorous story of how he and his wife met. We tip our hat to Wrestling Inc. for transcribing.
Goldberg reflected:
A Jewish director, a Jewish lead playing Santa Claus, killing people. There’s something funny about that. It was awesome man, I had a great time [filming the movie]. The best thing in the entire movie was not only did I kind of get to have a sleigh driven by a buffalo, but most importantly I met my wife on set. Three and a half months after we met I asked her to marry me, and its been the most wonderful time of my life ever since.
Digging deeper into the uniquely romantic story:
She was doing stunts. It was a strip club scene. I go into the strip joint, there’s like 50 naked girls there, and who do I come out with as my wife? The only girl who had clothes on. I’m Santa Claus, I come into the place, I kill a couple of people on my way in, then the bartender and a couple of patrons don’t like it very much, so they chase me throughout the bar. I hop up to the table, then I hop up to a swing, well she’s sitting on the swing, so I’m in an extremely precarious situation if you would look at the logistics of me hanging from the swing, she’s sitting on the swing, then I was very uncomfortable. And being ‘Goldberg’, I mean you’re supposed to be the guy, right?
So I’m sweating more than I am now, I couldn’t even look up at her and she taps me on the shoulder and she goes ‘are you alright, buddy?’ And I said ‘yeah, I’m fine’ but I couldn’t look up, obviously, and she says ‘usually before a guy and I get this close he buys me a beer first’. And I look up at her and I said, ‘I love you.’
You just never know where you might meet the one!
It’s been eight years since Ari Aster came onto the scene and helped usher in a new wave of horror with Hereditary, one of the rare horror movies from the past ten years that still seems to come up in conversation every single week. And it’s back in the conversation this week, with Ari Aster revealing at an event that he’s already written a prequel to Hereditary!
Ari Aster was on hand at the American Cinematheque for Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair last week, a Los Angeles festival that screened all of Aster’s movies to date. The website Gold Derby reports that Aster revealed the Hereditary prequel script during a Q&A at the event, and you can watch the full Q&A conversation below for confirmation on the website’s report.
“I wrote a prequel to this,” Aster told the crowd, referring to Hereditary. “It never feels like the right time to do it. It’s a prequel, not a sequel so I don’t know where this goes.”
Would a potential Hereditary prequel dig deeper into the mythology of demon king Paimon? Unfortunately, Aster provides no further details on his prequel approach at this time.
Aster said of Hereditary during the same Q&A, “I was just trying to make a really good horror movie.” I think most horror fans would agree that he more than accomplished that goal, and the past eight years have proven that Hereditary is an enduring classic of its generation.
We celebrated the fifth anniversary of Hereditary here on BD back in 2023.
Ron Breton wrote, “Hereditary offers a similar emotional resonance to this new generation of horror – my generation of horror– as movie-goers in the seventies when they first saw Exorcist. Much like Aster’s film, we see the incomprehensible evil wear the face of a young girl; the victim of a raw deal she had no say in, as it tears a family to its core. Sure, both films offer so many terrifying visuals that can make the hair stand up on anyone’s neck – but it also depicts intense relationships and emotions that are tangible. Real. Familiar.”
“In that familiarity lies the uncanny, ready to rear its ugly head and force us to confront thoughts and horrors laying dormant and clawing at our psyche,” Breton continued his 5th anniversary celebration of Hereditary. “And it doesn’t matter if it’s been five or fifty years. These horrors are always there, as we become pawns in its horrible, hopeless machine.”
Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd, and Milly Shapiro star in Hereditary. In the film, “A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.”
That’s putting it mildly, eh?!
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