Kevin Nash aka Diesel, Big Daddy Cool, and Star on Magic Mike – Interview at Heroes Fest 2014
Love This City catches up with Kevin Nash, renowned athlete at the 2014 Woodbridge Heroes Fest. Nash has recently appeared in Steven Soderberg’s Magic Mike with Matthew McConaughey and Channing Tatum as well as Rock of Ages (dir. Adam Shankman) with Tom Cruise, Paul Giamatti, and Russell Brand.
Raised in Detroit, Michigan with dreams of playing on a professional basketball team, Nash first played basketball for the University of Tennessee and headed overseas for several years where his dream of becoming a pro-basketball player came true, playing for various European teams.
Kevin has also appeared in Paramount Pictures’ The Longest Yard (dir. Peter Segal) with Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and Burt Reynolds, in Marvel Comics’/Artisan Entertainment’s The Punisher (dir. Jonathan Hensleigh) opposite John Travolta and Thomas Jane, and as Bass Armstrong in DOA: Dead or Alive (dir. Corey Yuen) based on the popular video game with Jaime Pressly. Formerly in TNA Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling on Spike TV, Kevin is now back with WWE as Deisel.
