Zac Efron And Chavo Guerrero Worked 12 Minute Match At Least 10 Times For “The Iron Claw”

Chavo Guerrero says Zac Efron worked matches with him during filming for “The Iron Claw.”

Acclaimed film studio A24 released the trailer recently for the upcoming biopic on the tragic legacy of the Von Erich family, Iron Claw, featuring Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Maxwell Friedman, and more.

Chavo Guerrero worked on the movie, as did AEW World Champion MJF.

Guerrero revealed in an interview with Chris Van Vliet on the red carpet for the movie that he and Efron worked a 12 minute match at least ten times.

“Our first real wrestling scene in the movie is — Sean Durkin, asked me to be the wrestler in there. He’s like, ‘I need you to really set the tone of this movie.’ I’m like, ‘Okay, let’s do it.’ So when that happened, we worked a 10-minute match or a 12-minute match over and over and over again. It wasn’t just clips and clips, they wanted to get the feel of an actual wrestling match and take the parts they wanted from it. So, we did that, I mean 10-12 times,”

“I explained to him the first time, I go, ‘Look, the higher you jump, the easier it is going to be.’ It seems weird, but the higher you go, I can find you easier and you can find me.’ He was like, ‘Okay, I trust you,’ and he just went for it. Once he did it the one time, he did it 20 times. He could just do it, and do it, and do it, and do it.”

Chavo Guerrero

The Iron Claw is set to release in theatres on December 22nd.

H/T to Fightful for transcription

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