Eric Bischoff has talked about what happened backstage during the part of the show where he kissed Linda McMahon.
The former Raw General Manager got personal on the final show before his SummerSlam 2003 match against Shane McMahon.
Shane was in the arena getting the crowd excited for the fight, and Linda joined the show later via satellite. With the doorbell going crazy in the background, Bischoff was revealed to be the one making all the noise. At the end of the scene, Eric Bischoff would kiss Linda McMahon, which would scare her son to death.
The WWE Hall of Famer talked in great detail about what happened before the segment and during the kiss on the 83 Weeks show. Bischoff told Bruce Prichard how he found out about the segment:
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“I’m pretty sure it was Bruce (Prichard) is the one that, and I think he told me over the phone because I had to fly to Connecticut to do it. Obviously, it was in Vince and Linda’s home. It wasn’t a fake office. It was Linda’s office in their home. I remember when Bruce told me, he didn’t give me the details, but he said, ‘We need you to come to Stamford. We’re going to shoot a scene with you. It’s going to be at Vince’s house.’ That’s all I knew going into the scene.
Vince is running around. He had these two big dogs, I think two of them, maybe one, but it was huge dogs, and Vince was cooking eggs in his kitchen and I showed up and it was surreal. It wasn’t until I got there that I found out exactly what I was going to be doing, and I thought, ‘Oh, well, this is different, but let’s give it a shot.’ It was awkward, for sure.”
Bischoff went on to say that Linda’s husband, Vince McMahon, who was also his boss, was there for the shooting. Continuing to talk about what happened, the former General Manager of WWE said that the kiss could not have looked more unromantic:
“We walked through, you know me grabbing her and holding her. Vince wanted it to look very forceful. He didn’t want it to appear like it was a purely romantic scene. He wanted me to force myself on Linda because the reason for the scene was to piss off Shane and to take Shane’s hatred of me to another level. What better way than to sexually accost his mother? That would get anybody hot. People can relate to that, I guess. But, again, once we blocked everything out and took Vince’s notes, he wanted to make sure I put her arm behind your back and forced her, that was it. We blocked it. We shot it. I went home.”
Bischoff said at the end of the show that the kiss was done in just one take.
