Shortly after his lunch meeting in Beverly Hills, Schwartz started a process of calling agents off of a list to look for representation. The acting business took a quick liking to Schwartz as well. Schwartz goes easy on George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven “At that time I had a crush on her, and I still probably do, so I said to myself I’m really going to like this acting business.” “As we came out of there, a limousine pulls up on the curb, and who gets out of the limousine but Stephanie Powers,” Schwartz remembers - a little giddiness still evident in his voice. In one of life’s serendipitous moments, the agent took the wrestlers to a Beverly Hills restaurant for lunch around the same time that a certain actress was also showing up for a meal.
In the end, with Bakersfield only being a couple of hours away from Hollywood, Schwartz and a few other wrestlers from his company travelled to meet with the agent and get an idea of what the acting life might hold in store for them. “I told him I didn’t want to be an actor I want to be a wrestler,” Schwartz recalls, “He asked me ‘Don’t you have any goals?’ I said, ‘Yeah, my goal is to be carried out of a wrestling ring on a stretcher, crippled, and have the fans give me a standing ovation.’ He said, ‘You must really want something more than that,’ and I said, ‘Nah, I just really want to retire as a wrestler.'” Some might think it the most obvious thing imaginable to jump at the chance and go for the brass ring in Hollywood, but Schwartz surprised the agent with his nonplus response.
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A Hollywood agent caught a glimpse of Schwartz wrestling on TV while in Bakersfield, California, and travelled to meet the wrestler and extend an invitation to Tinseltown. It was while paying his dues on the road that Schwartz was presented with an opportunity out of the blue: an offer to try his hand at a different kind of acting. It was the act of getting out there and performing in front of people, being hated or being loved, and just the thrill of doing it.” The obvious question, of course, is why does anyone commit to that kind of hardship? “The best way to describe it is something John Tolos said: if he won a millions dollars, what would he do with it? Keep wrestling until he didn’t have it anymore,” Schwartz explains, “You really do it for the love of the sport. “You travel 500 to a 1,000 miles, you might get a $50 pay-off,” he remembers. Schwartz’s memories of life on the road share the similar depiction of a gruelling life to those of many fellow wrestlers.
“Every time I talk to Kowalski, not a conversation goes by where I don’t thank him,” he says emphatically.
A native of Philadelphia, he cut his teeth at Killer Kowalski’s wrestling school in the late 1970s before establishing his character of Joshua Ben-Gurion, “The Israeli Commando”, a decade later. Schwartz sounds a little old-school, doesn’t he? Deservedly so. When vignettes and interviews become the main source of storytelling, instead of in-ring action, Schwartz warns that what you’re left with are “stupid storylines of big-breasted women hanging over somebody dead in a casket.” Perhaps not surprisingly, he worries about the impact that has on a traditional demographic for wrestling: “The message you’re sending to kids today, I think it sucks.” He, like many others, is discouraged by the failing frequency with which matches themselves are used to propel feuds and build the ultimate goal of dramatic tension.
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“It was a different game and different sport,” Schwartz laments when asked of his opinion on the current state of pro wrestling, “Not taking anything away from the athletes themselves, but what it’s become from a promoter’s standpoint is crap.” Schwartz’s less than flattering take is centered on the storytelling of wrestling. Schwartz ready for action as Joshua Ben-Gurion
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