Britt Baker: “I had never been a heel throughout my entire career”
Recently Britt Baker discussed her turning heel in AEW
“Kenny was the first one who came to me and said, ‘What if we turn you heel?’ I had never been a heel throughout my entire career, my very long four years. I’ve always been the bubbly babyface. I was all for it,” said Baker on Talk is Jericho. “‘Sure, but I’m gonna need a lot of help because I’ve never done it before.’ There was a lot of ideas on which direction the character should go and I really wasn’t feeling or connecting with the ideas until I had cut a quick promo on Riho backstage at the New Year’s Day show and some Twitter links had been sent to me about how it resembled Chris Jericho’s WCW self-proclaimed role model (gimmick). I texted Tony [Khan] like January 3 pitching this idea going off [Jericho’s character] and he loved it. I said, ‘I’m going to talk to Chris.’ That’s when I asked, ‘Do you think this could work, do you think it’ll be a bust?’ You said, ‘I think it could work. You should go for it.’ I pretty much pick your brain every week in some capacity for help to make this succeed. Cody has been a huge help, along with you and Tony, in making this character click and making it something I can present in a way that I believe in myself, which is the most important thing in making a character work.”