The Devil’s Rejects
Before Danny Trejo was vomit up as Rondo inThe Devil ’s Rejects , former WWE and current AEW starChris Jerichowanted the function , but did n’t get it . Any rooter of professional rassling will be familiar with Jericho , who made a name for himself stateside first in ECW , then WCW , before becoming a hall of fame calibre performer during his time in WWE . Jericho also made waves in recent days by jumping to the Modern All Elite Wrestling ( AEW ) publicity , finally reigning as their first earthly concern heavyweight mavin .
Jericho has also extend his fame beyond grappling , face the successful metal band Fozzy , and host the hit Talk is Jericho podcast , which draws an audience outside of just wrestle devotee . He ’s also appear in a few acting roles over the years , dance with the whizz , hosted events , and currently narrate the democratic wrestling documentary film seriesDark Side of the Ring . Jericho is basically an diligence unto himself at this point , juggling lots of dissimilar gigs at essentially all times .
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Before all that though , Jericho auditioned forThe Devil ’s cull , and got sprain down by author / director Rob Zombie . It ’s rare that Jericho fails at something in the entertainment earth , but the grounds he lost out on the persona was n’t exactly insulting .
Devil’s Rejects: The WWE Star Who Was “Too Pretty” To Play Rondo
As later confirmed by Chris Jericho himself , the former multi - time WWE world champion auditioned for the role of Rondo in 2005 sequelThe Devil ’s cull . Part of The Unholy Two , Rondo and his partner Billy Ray Snapper are a brace of bounty hunter willing to do anything to carry through their mission . They ’re hired by Sheriff Wydell ( William Forsythe ) to track down The Firefly Family . unluckily , Jericho did n’t get the part , due to , in apparently Zombie ’s Son being " too pretty " to play the character . While he ’s currently embracing a grizzled veteran look , Jericho has always attend very youthful in the grimace , and that was still specially the case back in the mid-2000s .
Considering the gruff and problematic - lookingDanny Trejowas eventually swan as Rondo , it ’s not surd to imagine why Zombie thought Jericho was too conventionally bounteous for the role . What ’s laughable is that Jericho ’s former WWE and WCW fellow worker " Diamond " Dallas Page was project as Billy Ray Snapper , so one can assume Zombie found DDP just ugly enough to be one-half of The Unholy Two . To be fair , Page is 15 years previous than Jericho , and that sure enough factored in . Interestingly , Jericho actually missed out on a possible two - moving picture purpose , as Trejo shortly play Rondo again in 2019’s3 From Hell .
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