[Van Vilet] Otis: (About winning Money in the Bank) "I don’t think there was a plan. No, uh, I don’t, I don’t."
“I don’t think there was a plan. No, uh, I don’t, I don’t. It was kind of a shocker because the whole day was like, we couldn’t get up on the roof for the longest time because of the COVID stuff. It was like just sitting, sitting, sitting, doing one thing and shooting it, so we were basically just sitting there in our gear. They were kind of, you know, b******** with all the boys and, you know, kind of calling stuff that would make it even more spectacular, like the plate where, you know, Baron was like, ‘Oh, throw the plate in the mirror, get it approved,’ you know, ‘get it approved,’ you know. So it was just a long day.
Then finally Jim’s like, ‘You thinking King Kong up in there?’ I go, ‘King Kong?’ He goes, ‘Yeah, come with me.’ Jamie Noble’s all fired up; he walks up, and he’s just climbing this ladder with his cowboy boots. I’m like, ‘Babe, I’m not going up there; I hate heights. That’s why I only go on the second rope.’ He’s like, ‘Get your ass up here, come on.’ So, I went, and it was a long way down. I mean, it’s a headquarters, babe. So we go up there, and he goes, ‘Alright, take a—I’m going to take a picture of you. Take your shirt off and roar.’ I go, ‘Okay, like King Kong, really roar?’ I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m roaring.’ Sorry, I’ve been sitting for 14 hours, then all of a sudden you’re going to win it. I’m like, ‘Oh, okay.’ And then, yeah, from there. But I think everything was always like, again, it was who’s healthy, who’s not, so that could have been a factor there, you know, with testing about COVID and all that. So there were a bunch of changes going on.
Yeah, my brain doesn’t think that way. It’s, um, how does it think? Basically, it’s a military question. It’s, uh, basically it’s like, how can I make this bigger than what it can be? And it’s tough without the crowd too because, again, you’re not getting that reaction.”
