00:00Triple H says Bray Wyatt's entrance was originally going to have lasers.
00:05Bray Wyatt's original entrance would have been different if WWE had moved forward with the initial pitch.
00:11Following an underwhelming run as Husky Harris, Wyndham Rotunda was repackaged as Bray Wyatt in NXT.
00:18Wyatt made his main roster debut alongside Eric Rowan and Luke Harper, aka Brodie Lee, on the July 8, 2013 episode of Raw.
00:26The Wyatt family's entrance became a huge hit with the WWE universe, allowing fans to become part of the experience through the torches of their smartphones, resembling fireflies.
00:37During a recent edition of Complex's On Display, WWE's chief content officer, Paul Triple H Levesque, recalled working with Bray Wyatt on his original entrance.
00:48According to Hunter, the initial pitch involved the use of lasers.
00:51Yeah, the original lantern. Which, for me, is really cool, because Bray and I worked together on that very first moment of that entrance.
00:59There was a time when they were looking at having lasers and all this other stuff.
01:03I asked him, does this feel right to you? And he said, no, it doesn't.
01:08Triple H on how Bray Wyatt's lantern entrance concept came to life.
01:12I went back and talked to our team and said, look, this is the exact opposite.
01:18This guy's a cult leader from the swamps. He shouldn't have lasers.
01:22As a backwoods guy, what would scare me is him coming through the woods at night,
01:27carrying this lantern, with his face barely visible, and I can barely make out who he is.
01:33That's how the concept came to be.
01:35Bray said, I love that.
01:37And then we started riffing on it and figuring out how to do it.
01:41I can still picture him with Harper and Rowan behind him,
01:44while we tried to move the lantern so we could see his face and catch a glimpse of them, but not too much.
01:50Bray would be like, this thing's too heavy. I can't hold my arm up this long.
01:54And all those bits and pieces that go into the creation make them, for me, even more special.
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