- 4/22/2025
Tyler Mane Interview with Meltdown
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00:00well good to see you tyler how's things good doing good man thanks for having the show
00:10yeah yeah you're welcome uh so uh real fast before we start off with you know with astronomicon and
00:15everything uh being that you grew up in canada are you watching the the playoffs uh no i'm too
00:21busy okay i'm too busy but i was just back in canada this last weekend at niagara falls comic
00:28con which was really cool so it's good to go back and see some family and friends and have a good
00:33time yeah i saw that you were there uh that's a really uh neat part of the uh country over there
00:38on the canadian side of niagara falls yeah yeah the whole the horseshoe falls and everything it's just
00:45it's majestic you can't beat it yeah and the whole uh clifton hill thing i really like
00:51yeah yeah i love that area it's just so relaxing to go you know now you grew up in a western canada
01:03is that correct i did i'm a saskatchewan boy don't hold that against me though i play hockey in the
01:09morning i don't know if this name would ring a bell but uh i play hockey with lyle fair do you
01:12remember lyle fair i do not okay anyways he's from yeah he's from that part of the country i didn't
01:17know if you'd if you'd recognize that name or not well i it was funny because i just got to see
01:22wendell clark again hadn't seen wendell for you know since probably 1990 something you know when he
01:33started playing with the the leafs so that was cool to kind of reunite with him do you know a lot
01:39of hockey players i know a few yeah yeah you know wendell joey uh but you know they've made it up the
01:47ranks and and done really well so no that's cool well of course uh vegas could as we record this
01:54they could take it all tonight i'm not sure how i feel about uh you know listen vegas has been in
01:59the stanley cup finals now twice and the red wings haven't even been in the playoffs in the sense of
02:02vegas uh came into the league ah yeah there you go i mean i i don't understand why vegas even has a
02:09team you know i'm old school i'm the old school kind of hockey guy but what can you say yeah so
02:18anyways let's get on to what you got coming up by astronomicon 6.5 of course you're a veteran of
02:23this uh comic con aren't you yeah i've been there a couple of times and and uh they called and asked
02:28if i wanted to come back um and what we're doing this time is i've got my own production company main
02:34entertainment we are doing a graphic novel so it's called the last spartan red tape imagine
02:42sons of anarchy meets true detective season one with a human trafficking theme all right so what
02:48we're doing is we're teaming up with human trafficking awareness organizations to help
02:52raise awareness and put a stop to the human trafficking that's going on in america and all
02:57over the world so we're teaming up with deliver fund for for this one and what we're doing oh there's
03:03my alarm to say that i gotta be on your show but what we're doing is i've teamed up with trick-or-treat
03:12studios who this year and i believe it's october are releasing the rob zombie halloween masks
03:19i asked if i could get some early and they're like for you tyler no problem it's going to a great cause
03:26so i have the bad boys right here nice there's there's there's the number one and and what is
03:37happening is i'm doing the photo ops in costume and one lucky fan wow is going to win all three of
03:48these masks plus the jumpsuit that we have that we've prepared for this show so they're going to
03:57get the whole tyler main halloween experience they're going to have all three masks and the
04:02jumpsuit one lucky winner if people want to they can get some extra raffle tickets for a chance to win
04:09this come see me at the photo op and let's have a lot of fun that's uh that's really cool i didn't
04:15realize that they were going to have all the masks i know that you're doing the the the pictures with
04:18twisted all that stuff and like you said uh deliver fund.org so uh that's a uh that's a foundation
04:24like you said that's trying to stop human trafficking yes yeah yeah they're they're they're working
04:29diligently there's there's several organizations that are uh working to put an end to human trafficking
04:36we're also teaming up with uh trafficking in americataskforce.org which we're going to be doing
04:41some other conventions um for and and donating the funds to them to help them spread their word too
04:48yeah how much uh how much halloween paraphernalia do you have at your house or just paraphernalia in
04:53general from like your movies you've been in oh man i try and keep something from every movie
04:58that i've been in really yeah i like when i did jupiter's legacy that was just on netflix
05:06um i was dressed up as a alien in a complete suit and i said hey could i get that suit so they were
05:14very you know they cut it off specifically re-put it onto a bust cast and gave it to me so i have
05:21i have my head of uh jupiter's legacy in my office i've got my troy outfit i've got the ears that i just
05:29wore in doom patrol um i've got some saber tooth stuff so i just try to keep something from everything
05:35i do you know yeah i'm kind of like that too i like to keep little things like if you know if
05:39if a band gives me a guitar pick or whatever the case is you know there's different things i've got
05:44different things around my house too that you collect over the years yeah exactly you know and
05:48it means something special to you and somebody else might go oh that's just you know whatever
05:53yeah yeah one of my friends came in my in my rock room one day and said dude this is like worth a
05:58million dollars i said well probably not maybe but it's not that's anybody else right yeah but you've got
06:05the cool stories that go with that stuff you know exactly which is uh special that's the thing i got
06:11pictures all over my walls i got pictures with the twisted guys and the whole thing and you know there's
06:15no truer statement than every picture you know tells a story yeah that is that is so true and and
06:21what a bunch of great guys those guys are right yeah great guys the best yeah i'm just i'm just so
06:28blown away anytime they call and say hey tyler we need you i'm like i'm there you know and of course
06:33you're on one of their videos uh almost 10 years ago now with a boogeyman yeah yeah that was a while
06:39ago wait thanks for telling me i'm old i appreciate it yeah well we're all getting there for sure uh but
06:47hey so let me uh let me back up to uh to the halloween things i'm sure you've heard every question
06:51there's a is imaginable about a halloween but uh i mean that i loved the rob zombie halloween movies i
06:58love the original ones too but that one just kind of those movies just uh the two of them just
07:02kind of brought like a modern twist and i gotta be honest with you with the exception of uh lords of
07:08salem i've pretty much liked everything rob's done so how do you get hooked up with a guy like rob to
07:12to play michael myers and that well to tell you the truth i was i auditioned for uh devil's rejects
07:19for a different part the part that he gave to to dallas page what i didn't know is he was replacing
07:24the original rufus and he wanted me to replace the rufus so i went there and worked for like four
07:31days on this thought nothing of it met rob met everybody it was cool time and then uh i think
07:38probably a year a couple years later he calls me he goes hey teller man i wrote a movie for you
07:42if you don't do it i'm not doing it i said all right what what is it he goes it's halloween i'm like
07:48okay tell me about it you know and he said how is your backstory i'm going to make him more than
07:55a one-dimensional character make him a three-dimensional character and and show how
08:00he's a product of his environment i was like i'm me and i'm sold you know and then we ended up doing
08:04two of them so yeah i mean in uh let's let's go back to devil's rejects real fast because uh
08:10great movie and my brother one time told me i'll never forget this and he's told me a lot of things
08:14i've forgotten over my life but he said to me he goes you'll never listen to free bird the same
08:19way and that is entirely true that's true that is true that ending is amazing amazing i think the
08:27best part is before the credits roll in the beginning because that's when i die i i was in
08:32the very short i was like oh man this is this is nuts you know but uh and you know there was a bigger
08:41plan which is cool yeah you've done some uh some great stuff in your career but uh would you say
08:45that the michael play michael myers in those two movies uh really was life-changing for you
08:50oh definitely i mean it's just it's a fantastic character i've been very lucky i've had a few
08:57really cool characters you know like saber tooth from the first x-men king ajax from troy
09:04but michael myers is phenomenal you know he is just uh he's the guy you know what i mean
09:13now i needed to kick it up a notch and and make him a little more aggressive and and knowing rob
09:19that's exactly what we did you know so all the action needed to be bumped up the kill counts needed
09:26to be high i think over the someone actually this last weekend uh said that i think between the two
09:32movies uh we killed 36 people and a dog those movies are great you must be packed like in october
09:40you just must not have any room for anything else huh i'm i am pretty busy i'm i'm pretty busy running
09:46all over the place especially with our production company and we got the graphic novel that we're
09:50going to be launching mid-october this year so everybody please look out for that um and so yeah
09:57we're we are busy busy now since we're at a rock station here i know that uh um zach myers from
10:05shinedown is a huge michael myers fan have you had a chance to run across him no i haven't okay he
10:11actually has a really small part in the latest one that's how much of a fan he is they actually put
10:15him in one of the scenes oh really that's cool that's okay did he get to die or did he did he stay
10:22alive to live another day i i think that he was just part of a group that was in this restaurant
10:28i don't think he i don't think he was killed off now that i recall but did you see the latest one
10:32and what are your thoughts because i thought it started out fantastic and then just crashed and
10:36burned yeah i i you know i still think my favorites are mine so there we go i'll agree with you on that
10:45how about that here we go there we go what was it like what was it comment yeah right what was it
10:52like to be uh you know uh directed by a guy like rob what is he like to work with oh fantastic because
10:58he's an entertainer himself so he lets you do your thing and he knows that you need your creativity
11:05creative space to to to be able to bring it and then he'll kind of caress it and say okay we should
11:12do this but like every morning going to set was the best because i'd come to work and he'd go how
11:18you want to kill somebody today you know and we'd work it out and figure it out and and uh it's just a
11:24whole lot of fun a whole lot of fun yeah i'm a big fan of pretty much everything that rob does his
11:30music his movies all that stuff and and of course you got to work with sherry as well yeah she's a
11:36sweetheart you know it's like everybody in that film it just became like family you know like scout
11:42taylor compton sherry um you know danielle harris all of them it's just malcolm you know there's malcolm
11:52he's another character there i'm telling you he couldn't stop making people laugh on set
11:57just talking to you it's like you know we're only beginning of the summer here i just can't wait for
12:03the leaves to fall off and get it to cool down now i just want to get back into halloween mode
12:06yeah right hey i got a mask you can borrow well i'm only five foot six no one's going to be fooled
12:14by me well so hey some of the earlier ones are shorter yeah are you the tallest oh definitely yeah
12:21yeah yeah yeah i i don't i don't know what the other guys are but like i mean i'm six seven
12:26265 so yeah i'm i'm definitely the biggest michael myers and that's the scariest
12:32so you were also in uh and joe dirt i don't recall that what you did in joe dirt uh what
12:40what'd you play in there oh i was the oil rig um worker that uh he challenges to the fight and i pick
12:51him up press him over my head throw him and then i burn up in uh a bunch of pee that's right
12:58so you know that's fire i'm like i must have some really i must have drank a lot of jack daniels or
13:04something so uh that movie of course had uh detroit's own kid rock did you ever have a chance
13:10to interact with him at the end set or any anywhere else oh yeah yeah he was a great guy you know
13:16everybody i i tend to get along with everybody you know and and have a great time we had we had a
13:21few few good conversations he was having fun yeah yeah i know he yeah i think that his guitar
13:28player actually gave him that line uh jason kraus gave him the line uh def leppard sucks i think i
13:32heard that story a few times there you go wow so what else you got coming up this future uh the
13:39future plans you got pretty much like the comic cons you got your uh your comic book you were
13:43talking about anything else that you could plug yeah well i've got a i've got a couple of things
13:47that i'm uh getting in shape for that i got ndas that i can't say anything about but all right on
13:54on uh main entertainment.com and and my instagram and twitter's and stuff and uh you'll be seeing it
14:01soon and by the way i know that you were from the world of wrestling so i had to wear this for my
14:06friend uh rhino i don't know if you can see that the uh insane wrestling revolution you know rhino
14:11i know rhino i know rhino say hi to him next time you talk to him yeah he was there uh at the last
14:18uh astronomic con uh i don't think you were but uh yeah rhino's a an old friend of mine and uh i met
14:23him a month a week after my daughter was born and she turns 22 this summer so we've been friends ever
14:28since but one of the one of the best guys yeah yeah that's the thing a lot of a lot of the wrestlers
14:33you know people think that they're all this tough you know there's a lot of them are the sweetest
14:39guys in the world i just ran into jesse ventura at this uh niagara falls one and and tito santana
14:46and we just talked for like i don't know well jesse can talk your damn ear off talk for like
14:51i think an hour and it's all about jesse but that's a good thing that's right so what what was your
14:57wrestling career what what what years were you in wrestling well i started in uh 1986 i was in uh
15:03i started in stew hart's dungeon in canada then i uh went to los angeles and trained with red bastine
15:11and mondo guerrero and i wrestled for 11 and a half years all over the world you know germany japan
15:17austria uh england south africa yugoslavia mexico and actually i got my uh acting career started in
15:26mexico have you ever seen those mexican wrestling movies yeah the loot they asked me if i wanted to
15:33do one and i said well i don't speak spanish they go don't worry we're gonna dub you i'm like okay
15:38great it was in like the late 80s i played an intergalactic vampire that shot laser laser beams
15:45through my fingertips and i had a fog a pink fog that followed me everywhere it was crazy that was
15:52starting to the but i realized hey i'm not getting dropped on my head i like this i'm gonna transition
15:59and that's when i started and and when i uh did it x-men in 1999 i hung up the wrestling boots and
16:05haven't looked back it's kind of funny because around 1997 98 or something that's when wrestling
16:11really got hot and they had the monday night wars and everything like that you had just gotten out of
16:15it huh yeah yeah yeah i was happy to walk away i mean it it takes its toll on your body you know
16:21people don't realize that they say you know it's all staged and everything and yeah it is but
16:26you're you got two 300 pounders picking each other up over your head and dropping them
16:31things are gonna hurt yeah do you pay attention to any of it uh anymore or no um i i'll watch it
16:38every once in a while but i'm not following it so heavily like i say i'm so busy going in every
16:44different direction i don't have much time to sit down and think about that and if i do i'm going to
16:49be playing call of duty so oh is that right that's my game all right well you must have more time on
16:57your hands than i do because i don't have time to play call of duty i did play hockey this morning
17:01but that was about it that's that's my extra time well there you go so active yeah well listen tyler
17:08you got of course the astronomicon 6.5 coming up here uh june 24th and 25th and uh we'll uh post all
17:14the information and then get your then get uh the fans get pictures with you and the twisted guys
17:19all for uh charity it's all going to be a great cause and of course you got those masks and everything
17:23man it's gonna be a great event yeah like i say one lucky winner is going to walk away with all three
17:28masks and the jumpsuit i'm wearing and portion of the proceeds from the photo op and all the raffle
17:34ticket proceeds is going to be going to deliverfund.org so i want to say thank you to everybody that
17:41support and let's have fun i'll see you in a couple weeks okay all right i'll see you there
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