AEW star Ricochet discussed various topics with Sports Illustrated, including his inspiration from The Joker for his AEW character.
Ricochet said, “The Joker, who obviously thrives in chaos, is somebody I take a lot of inspiration from. Because Ricochet in AEW just likes to cause chaos. Whether that leads to something or not, he just wants to cause chaos. So that’s something I connect with… There’s a method behind his madness, and that’s also something I pull from.”
On finding the balance between being prepared or improvising in terms of his character work:
“It’s a 50/50 thing. I love having things happen organically, because I think a lot of the time you get some of the best stuff that way. But if I’m going into a promo, I try to think about anything that person is going to say to me, because I need to have a response back. So I sit there and think about it as much as I can, but at the same time, I am a fan of spontaneity. Sometimes you don’t know how the crowd’s going to react to something, so you have to react to the way they react. You have to go off them sometimes. Or sometimes you have to drive them to where you’re trying to go.”
