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The schedule of an independent master wrestler is already jam packed pinch shows, travel, media interviews, training and everything other successful between. Adding thing other onto their plates would beryllium a near-impossible task to manage.
Pro wrestling prima Vinny Pacifico is taking nan situation caput on. He will beryllium successful a caller movie called "The Hours that Keep Us," which features a talented formed from nan sports and intermezo industries. The Tommy Dwyer-directed movie will characteristic MMA stars Paige VanZant and Mickey Gall arsenic good arsenic actors Zack Ward and Chelsea Bray.
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Vinny Pacifico flexes for nan crowd. (Vinny Pacifico)
Pacifico, who was successful "Mr. Reset and nan Society of Turnbuckle & Bone" and "The Forsaken Few," told Fox News Digital he was ecstatic astir nan formed for nan movie.
"That’s going to beryllium perfectly phenomenal," Pacifico said. "The formed is insane. We sewage Paige VanZant. We sewage Mickey Gall, Zack Ward, Chelsea Brea and Tommy Dwyer – he’s nan head and he’s going to beryllium successful it arsenic well. … That movie has nan craziest formed you could ideate and it’s really exciting. That’s going to beryllium a really nosy movie.
"It’s 1 of those things wherever it’s for illustration you tin beryllium backmost and you’re like, wow, what a phenomenal group of group from each different industries – wrestling, MMA, movie and truthful galore different places. We person truthful galore group successful this film. So galore different instrumentality bases. It’s a really beautiful thing."
Pacifico said "The Hours that Keep Us" will beryllium an anthology-type movie pinch 3 different stories intertwining pinch each other.
"They’re each acheronian stories and they each person a connection," he explained. "Bottom line, it’s going to beryllium special, it’s going to beryllium different."
Meanwhile, Pacifico is still wrestling successful betwixt filming.
Paige VanZant stands ringside earlier nan catchweight bout betwixt Nikolay Veretennikov and Austin Vanderford during UFC Fight Night astatine Climate Pledge Arena successful Seattle, Wash., connected Feb. 22, 2025. (Steven Bisig/Imagn Images)
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He talked to Fox News Digital astir balancing doing everything while keeping his mental health successful check.
"It hasn’t been easy to beryllium honest. I really person not had immoderate clip for myself aliases conscionable to beryllium still because moreover successful between, connected nan days that I’m not wrestling aliases doing a movie, it’s answering emails, booking much worldly and doing media. … Mental health, I’ll beryllium honest, I haven’t had clip to deliberation much," he said. "Of course, being successful entertainment, we ever spell done moments wherever we person worry wherever we get huffy astatine ourselves. We want more, we want this. We’re ever critiquing ourselves successful wrestling and films, arsenic an actor. We’re ever looking astatine ourselves for illustration ‘What could we do better?’ But I haven’t had overmuch clip to really beryllium and deliberation astir stuff. I kinda person conscionable been go, go, go, which I’m grateful for.
"But, it’s not easy because you do person to really, mindfully, return nan clip to measurement backmost and beryllium like, each right, I request a fewer minutes to conscionable beryllium pinch my family, beryllium pinch my friends aliases conscionable attraction connected thing that’s not activity related for conscionable a little. If it consumes you, it’s not ever a bully thing. For me, it’s like, OK, I did what I needed to do today. When ‘Mr. Reset’ came out, I had 9 interviews successful a statement and past I went to nan gym and past I had different question and reply and I said you cognize what? OK, I’m gonna do these interviews, I’m gonna spell to nan gym, I’m gonna everything, and past by 3 p.m., erstwhile I’m done pinch everything, I’m gonna put my telephone down and conscionable beryllium pinch my family and beryllium pinch my woman and conscionable live. I consciousness you person to mindfully do those things."
Pro wrestler Vinny Pacifico steps wrong of nan ring. (Vinny Pacifico)
Still, Pacifico said he was "grateful" for each opportunity he receives successful and retired of nan ring.
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"The Hours that Keep Us" is group to commencement filming adjacent month.
Ryan Gaydos is simply a elder editor for Fox News Digital.
