{"id":946618,"date":"2026-10-26T06:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946618\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T06:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:36:21","slug":"wwes-drew-mcintyre-teases-on-screen-partnership-with-academy-award-winning-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946618\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE&#8217;s Drew McIntyre Teases On-Screen Partnership With Academy Award Winning Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/intro-1792951987.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2296371\/wwe-drew-mcintyre-russell-crowe-academy-award-wrestlemania\/\" data-post-id=\"2296371\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-slide-title=\"WWE's Drew McIntyre Teases On-Screen Partnership With Academy Award Winning Actor: \" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Drew McIntyre looks on before heading towards the ring\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    WWE<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2282022\/drew-mcintyre-wwe-return-raw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">he comes back,<\/a> WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre is gunning to reposition himself as the next world champion. And he won&#8217;t stop at nothing to get there, even if he has to bring one of his co-stars from the film to the ring. On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dr4Mv8I_IMY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Joe Vulpis Podcast,&#8221;<\/a> the former one-time World Heavyweight Champion said that Academy Award winning actor and co-star in &#8220;The Last Druid&#8221; and &#8220;Highlander,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2231006\/wwe-drew-mcintyre-russell-crowe-training-partner-good-lad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russell Crowe,<\/a> has his sights set on following McIntyre to the ring. Though, it&#8217;s a conversation &#8220;The Scottish Warrior&#8221; will have to have with WWE management first.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Russell was legitimately talking about&#8230;he wanted to do something a couple of times,&#8221; McIntyre said. &#8220;Oh, he got all excited about us doing something together in the same team, and talked about WrestleMania, or whatever. He talked about us having a manager, like an assistant, kind of like you. It was more of a heel thing he was coming up with. He had some great ideas. He&#8217;s willing to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s been nearly 200 days since WWE fans last saw McIntyre compete in the ring. His last match, featured at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2151530\/wwe-wrestlemania-42-jacob-fatu-drew-mcintyre-dominant-win-unsanctioned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WrestleMania 42, was a loss to Jacob Fatu, in an Unsanctioned Match.<\/a> Their rivalry came to a head after Fatu cost McIntyre his third reign with the Undisputed Championship, allowing Cody Rhodes to claim his third reign with the title on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2117596\/wwe-smackdown-cody-rhodes-drew-mcintyre-regains-undisputed-wwe-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">March 6 edition of &#8220;WWE SmackDown.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Since that unfortunate defeat, McIntyre has transitioned his time by accepting several different movie roles not only for the two films mentioned above, but also for &#8220;Hexed&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2283291\/wwe-agent-of-shadows-drew-mcintyre-micro-drama-first-footage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WWE and ReelShort&#8217;s recently released micro-drama, &#8220;The Agent of Shadows,&#8221;<\/a> as its main character, Roscoe.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit &#8220;The\u00a0Joe Vulpis Podcast&#8221; with a h\/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; WWE Once he comes back, WWE Superstar Drew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-946618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}