Netflix documentary director on Hulk Hogan's Trump support and the backlash that followed him to the end

In his last quality for WWE, Hulk Hogan, undoubtedly the top wrestler successful the past of the company, was booed.

By the clip Jan. 6, 2025, his past appearance, had rolled around, Hogan became outwardly supportive of President Donald Trump, which turned disconnected immoderate of his followers.

"But helium ne'er expressed regret. He stood by who helium was," Brian Storkel, the manager of Netflix's upcoming documentary connected the precocious wrestler, said successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital.

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Businessman Donald Trump and World Champion Wrestler Hulk Hogan astatine Wrestlemania Vl Convention Hall successful Atlantic City, New Jersey March 29 1987. (Jeffrey Asher/Getty Images)

Hogan had done 5 days of interviews with Netflix, totaling 25 hours. However, helium volition not get to spot the last product, arsenic helium died successful July astatine the property of 71.

Long earlier becoming an outward Trump supporter, Hogan had been progressive successful immoderate controversies successful the past. But from the jump, Storkel wanted to "humanize him and truly get to cognize Terry Bollea, the person."

"With each the subjects successful my documentaries, I don’t similar viewing radical successful black-and-white terms. Even if idiosyncratic has done wrong, I don’t spot them arsenic purely bully oregon evil. People are much analyzable than that, and that nuance is wherever the communicative becomes interesting," Storkel said. "You request a taxable consenting to spell there, reflect, and beryllium unfastened — and Terry was."

Hogan began to beryllium much nationalist with his enactment for Trump aft an assassination effort successful July 2024.

"He said he’d supported him softly for a agelong clip but felt embarrassed to deterioration the hat. He mentioned that the assassination effort was what pushed him to talk out. Soon after, helium was speaking publically and took immoderate backlash for it," Storkel said.

Hulk Hogan, nonrecreational entertainer and wrestler, speaks during the last time of the Republican National Convention astatine the Fiserv Forum. The last time of the RNC featured a keynote code by Republican statesmanlike nominee Donald Trump. (IMAGN Syndication: USA TODAY)

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Ironically, the past clip Storkel chatted with Hogan was close aft an interrogation with Trump for the documentary.

"I was astatine the White House, conscionable extracurricular the West Wing, connected a telephone with Hulk Hogan, which was the weirdest thing. It felt similar 1 of those surreal moments you’d ideate arsenic a kid — a made-up communicative you’d archer people. I had conscionable spent clip with Donald Trump, thing Hulk Hogan had acceptable up truthful I could interrogation him, and past I’m lasting determination talking to Hogan astir it. He was truthful excited it had happened," Storkel recalled.

"At that point, helium was already successful and retired of the infirmary aft surgery, truthful that ended up being the past telephone I had with him."

Storkel admitted that not overmuch was antithetic astir the documentary pursuing Hogan's decease from his archetypal plans, extracurricular of immoderate precocious tributes and much clip with his son, Nick. Storkel was doing interviews for the documentary astatine WWE office successful Connecticut the time Hogan died.

"There’s besides a infinitesimal successful the movie wherever I accidental we’ll travel backmost successful a mates of months for different interview. He agrees and walks retired of frame—and that ends up being the past time. It becomes a almighty infinitesimal due to the fact that you recognize that follow-up ne'er happens," Storkel said.

But nary substance the case, Storkel felt a work to archer the communicative of the greatest.

Nick Hogan and Hulk Hogan during VH1 Big successful '05 - Backstage and Audience astatine Sony Studios successful Los Angeles, California. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)

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"With each project, I privation to beryllium just and accurate. Of people I privation the radical progressive to consciousness bully astir it, but I won’t alteration the information to marque that happen," Storkel said. "With Hulk, getting to cognize him personally made it much important to grant him properly. Yes, helium was flawed and polarizing, but helium was besides a caring idiosyncratic with a large personality.

"I didn’t privation his bequest reduced to a azygous statement oregon judged solely connected authorities oregon past mistakes. My extremity was to amusement the afloat quality being. Regardless of however radical consciousness going in, I deliberation they’ll travel distant with a deeper knowing of who helium was. I truly valued getting to cognize him, and I anticipation the assemblage gets that aforesaid acquisition done the documentary."

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