Aug 4, 10:30 PM
Liv Morgan and MJF do similar things in first trailers for their very different new movies
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In what we’re pretty sure is just a coincidence and not anything to do with their regular employers, within the last 24 hours both WWE star Liv Morgan and AEW star Maxwell Jacob Friedman had trailers come out for their upcoming movies. Morgan’s was first, and as The_B points out in their Feed post with the Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo trailer, there are a few things worth noting in our first look at Japanese auteur Takashi Miike’s entry into a series that’s previously been helmed by Abel Ferrara and Werner Herzog*. One is that Liv is billed under her WWE name rather than her legal one (Gionna Daddio). In fact, it’s pretty cool that Morgan is billed at all. A lot of pro wrestlers first roles are cameos or smaller roles, along the lines of Liv’s turn on the Chucky television show, or Becky Lynch and MJF’s parts in Happy Gilmore 2. But the Judgment Day leader is right there with the leads on the only cast list we get: No word on Morgan’s role, but she at least gets to lick some… noodles? or slic