Julia Hart House of Black on Returning to the AEW Ring

The Princess of the Black Throne is lastly returning to the ring. It’s been eight months since Julia Hart final graced the squared circle on All Elite Wrestling (AEW), having dropped her TBS championship to Willow Nightingale again in April earlier than disappearing from TV to endure shoulder surgical procedure.

Hart makes her much-anticipated return to in-ring motion towards Jamie Hayter at “AEW Dynamite: Struggle for the Fallen,” which shall be simulcast on TBS and Max on Wednesday, Jan. 1.

“That adrenaline rush is what I miss most from being gone for eight months. I may actually really feel it by means of my legs I used to be so excited. I used to be making an attempt to not shake,” mentioned Hart, who heralded her return to AEW TV with a trilogy of introspective vignettes that includes warring variations of Hart’s previous and current personas.

“The primary time I received harm, again in January whereas I used to be nonetheless champion, I couldn’t wrestle for like 5 weeks,” she advised Selection. “I had these concepts set for that, however they didn’t make sense on the time as a result of I used to be nonetheless onscreen. I’ve at all times had these in my again pocket, however I believe I didn’t know what they had been.”

However whereas the ultimate product speaks for itself, Hart mentioned her preliminary pitch for the return teasers was a tougher promote. “I’m not superb with my phrases, I’m higher at visually exhibiting it. I bear in mind saying ‘Yeah, after which I am going shoot myself’ and folks had been like ‘What are you speaking about?’ I’m like ‘Let me simply go movie it. And then you definitely’ll perceive.”

Hart credited editor/photographer Dani Venen with serving to form the trilogy of vignettes: “Dani picks up what I’m saying similar to that. Me waking as much as the ringing of a cellphone, the concept at first was a letter, and Dani was like ‘You’re keen on ‘The Black Cellphone’, why don’t you do a black cellphone?’ I inform her what I’m considering, and she will be able to make it 10 instances higher.”

Past horror favorites like “The Black Cellphone” and “Coraline,” Hart mentioned music performs a big half in her artistic course of, and cited listening to her entrance music, “Tougher Hart,” as a confidence booster. “I attempt to think about myself in a music video and the way I might interpret the music. Music is unquestionably what’s impressed me probably the most.”

As for the musical inspirations behind Julia Hart? “The ‘Kill Invoice’ album,” she mentioned, referring to the movie’s soundrack. “I like ‘Twisted Nerve’ a lot. I actually listened to it this morning. ‘Bang Bang,’ ‘That Sure Feminine’… that complete album can put me in my character temper.”

Hart additionally cited Uma Thurman’s “Kill Invoice” heroine as one of many major inspirations for her Home of Black character. “I like the ‘Kill Invoice’ motion pictures due to how Beatrix holds herself. She’s so badass. I like that. I like ‘Wednesday,’ clearly. Stevie Nicks, too. ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’ within the Netflix collection, how she has an angle and she or he’s sassy and she or he’s younger.

“I name myself the ‘Princess of the Black Throne’ as an alternative of the ‘Queen’ as a result of I really feel like princesses are extra naive,” she added. “I nonetheless have rather a lot to be taught, I nonetheless have a lot extra to go. I’m only a couple years into wrestling. Studying extra in-ring smart, and determining folks’s brains higher, as a result of I like to be the keeper of secrets and techniques. Figuring folks out, determining their weaknesses, the best way to tear them down and beat them.”

Reigning TBS champion Mercedes Moné is without doubt one of the many ladies Hart mentioned she’s wanting to wrestle and be taught from, now that she’s again within the ring.

“Undoubtedly Mercedes (Moné), she has my title,” Hart mentioned. “In all probability Willow (Nightingale) too, she took the belt from me. I’ve by no means labored with Mariah (Could), I’ve by no means labored with Toni (Storm). I might like to work with Serena Deeb, I believe she’s somebody I may be taught rather a lot from within the ring.”

However earlier than AEW’s youngest-ever champion units her sights on regaining the TBS championship, Hart mentioned her first precedence is Jamie Hayter, whose backstage segments Hart has been commonly hijacking to air her vignettes. “She simply had a fantastic comeback, so I gotta present my comeback is gonna be higher than hers. Taking out the locker room one after the other, and sorry, Jamie, you’re first.” 

“AEW Dynamite: Struggle for the Fallen” simulcasts stay Wednesday, Jan. 1, at 8 p.m. ET on TBS and Max. This reps the start of a brand new multi-platform media rights settlement between Warner Bros. Discovery and AEW; for the primary time, episodes of “AEW Dynamite” and “AEW Collision” shall be streamed stay on Max within the U.S. on the identical time they air on TBS and TNT, respectively.

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