Seth Rollins: I don’t love acting, my wife loves acting

Seth Rollins doesn’t love acting, but his wife Becky Lynch is passionate about her film/television ambitions.

A new episode of Insight with Chris Van Vliet was uploaded on Thursday with Rollins appearing as the guest. During the interview, Rollins confirmed that he will not be in “Captain America: Brave New World” despite filming a role for the film in 2023. Rollins said the movie — which will be released next month — went through a lot of rewrites and reshoots that resulted in his role either being repurposed or completely erased. Rollins said he did audition for what was either a new character or a different version of his planned character, but the film went in a different direction.

If he’s never in any other acting projects, Rollins is fine with it. Wrestling is what he loves, not acting. But Rollins notes that Lynch does love acting and is much better at it than he is. Rollins said Lynch has been hustling and working her tail off with non-wrestling roles during the nearly eight months she’s been away from WWE programming.

“I’m not in the movie. I will say unequivocally I am not in the film. I do not want anybody to go to the film thinking I’m here to see Seth Rollins. There might be two people that would do that, but I don’t want those two people to waste their time. I don’t want to misinform anybody. I don’t want to lead anybody astray. I am not in the film,” Rollins said.

“It should be a good one. Marvel does a great job. I mean, if I’m not [in anything else], I don’t care. I don’t love acting. I love wrestling. My wife loves acting. She’s way better at it than I am. She’s got awesome stuff coming out. Obviously, she announced her bit on Star Trek, which is going to be sick. I think that comes out like later — maybe next year. And she’s got another thing that I’m not allowed to talk about that’ll be coming out sooner than that. Yeah, I can’t say anything. People have been like, ‘Oh she’s on hiatus, taking a break.’ She has not been taking a break. She has been working her tail off the last six, seven months, she’s been hustling.”

Rollins said he’s open to acting if any producers want him, but wrestling is his thing and he isn’t seeking out any auditions.

Lynch’s most recent WWE TV appearance was a loss to Liv Morgan in a steel cage match in May 2024. She is expected to be back in WWE soon, but when she’ll be returning has not been confirmed.

Rollins competed in the main event of Raw’s Netflix premiere earlier this week, losing to CM Punk.