It might have been Seth who first told me that Andre the Giant was primarily a wrestler, not an actor. I certainly only knew him as "Fesik" from Princess Bride and honestly am not parituclarly interested in professional wrestling. Still, I found the following article utterly fasinating! I guess it answered my half-formed question of how Andre could perform as a wrestler when he didn't fit my (probably inaccurate) perception of a professional wrestler: he was just the biggest! As the article points out, it's not hard to overpower your 12yo nephew when you're 25yo and twice his size.
[http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-biggest-man-understanding-andre-the-giant-wrestlings-massive-indefinable-contradiction/]
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