In Apple TV+’s new indie-wrestling docuseries, Danny Cage and his students don’t need to be told the odds are against them. It wouldn’t matter anyway.
” . This requires wrestlers to be “on” pretty much whenever we’re seeing them, which creates an interesting dynamic when dealing with what is ostensibly a documentary. I asked Cage and his students about this: Were they being themselves in the series, or were these their characters? The answer is complicated, since many wrestling gimmicks are subtle enough to align with what we’d now just consider someone’s public persona, a thing anyone with an Instagram account technically has.
“My intention going into it was to be my most authentic self, and a part of my authentic self is my character” Belpre says. “I don’t think any of us are too far from our gimmicks,” Goldschmidt adds. “I am Goldy to an extent; it’s just my real self is just a less-confident Goldy.” In the series, Cage puts it succinctly: “In the acting world, you have to seek out a part; in pro wrestling, you write your own part — you become who you envision yourself as being.
“It’s not healthy to be somebody else,” he tells me. “If I ask you how you’re doing, I want an authentic answer.” With so much of their personas based on themselves, watching these performers develop their skills oncomes across as more of an exercise in self-actualization than character development. As the factory’s reigning champ, Jones must overcome his shyness and go door-to-door promoting himself and the Factory’s weekly show. Disangro needs to evolve his promo skills for the big event, and in doing so overcome his fear of being bullied by a potentially unsupportive crowd.
Though the students of the Factory probably have more in common with stand-up comedians or drag performers than anyone you’d meet in an Olympic Village, this is ultimately what makes the series so endearing. You don’t have to like sports or even wrestling to appreciate what these students are chasing, you just have to be someone who understands what it’s like to dream of a life bigger than the one you have. “We’re all insane,” Belpre tells me.
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