Julia Hart Explains Why She Dropped Her AEW Cheerleader Gimmick

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AEW star Julia Hart spoke with The Takedown about several topics, including moving away from her cheerleader gimmick.

Hart said, โ€œI think I just needed to take myself more seriously. I think in the cheerleader role, I looked at the cheerleader as like an annoying preppy girl because I was, you know, being a cheerleader, all of high school thatโ€™s how we were always looked at, you know? Just the annoying preppy girls, but I was never like that.โ€

On never seeing herself as the bubbly cheerleader type:

โ€œI was never smiling, I always wore baggy clothes and a jacket with a hood over my head in high school, so I looked at the cheerleader thing as a whole different thing. But when I got to AEW, everyoneโ€™s like, โ€˜Oh, youโ€™re so cute, youโ€™re so bubbly do this, this, and this,โ€™ so then it was really hard for me to be aggressive.โ€

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