Jack Perry on He Originally Wanted to Take Inspiration from “SAW”for Luchasaurus Return Vignettes, “Tarzan Boy” Staying for Jurassic Express Theme Song, & He Would Rather Wrestle for The People on Tumblr Than Twitter

As noted before, Jack Perry made his surprise return to AEW and reunited Jurassic Express with Luchasaurus at this past September’s All Out 2025 event.

VICE held a recent interview with Perry. One of the topics discussed included Perry’s thoughts about the vignettes that aired before Luchasaurus’ return at AEW’s All Out 2025 event.

“It’s weird ’cause we thought this would be so easy. We’ll just tell ’em we want to do it again and that’ll happen. It turned out to be just about the hardest thing in the world to get it all to line up. It all came together, not the way we planned, but I think in a really cool way with these vignettes of him being resurrected it was kind of a happy accident.”

Perry also gave his thoughts about how he originally wanted to take inspiration from the first Saw film for the vignettes.

“We were gonna do a couple of me first sort of like digging up this grave and dragging this coffin and you didn’t know whose it was and it was gonna be his reveal at the end. And then he ended up having to go back for some other stuff. We were thinking Saw, where they end up going back at the end of the movie and showing you how the beginning got set up. So, I don’t know, I think it all turned out super cool. Not the way we necessarily had planned it, but it felt perfect the way it all came together.”

Perry also gave his thoughts about the “Tarzan Boy” song for Jurassic Express is here to stay for the new version of his tag team with Luchasaurus.

“I think the song is here to stay. It’s funny ’cause I was thinking about that. I was like, ‘I don’t know, we have a different look.’ The thing that solidified it for me was that people were singing it before we even played it. I looked, it’s been like three years, like a thousand something days since Luchasaurus and I have been on screen together.

I’ve been off about a year, I was the Scapegoat before this, I’m wearing all black with a knife on my belt. He’s in all black and people are singing that song. I think in the time that we had it, it cut deep with people. I think there is an interesting thing when I watch shows, I get a lot of inspiration from shows and movies, but I just watched this show, Hunting Wives on Netflix.

What I really liked about it was on the surface level, it’s this community and they’re all happy and they go to church, then underneath it, there’s all this dark kind of undercurrent going on. White Lotus is another show like that. There’s lighthearted funniness to it and happiness and whatever, and it’s silly. Then there’s murder going on underneath it all. I’m interested in experimenting with the duality of something like the song and our new presentation.”

Perry also gave his thoughts about how he discovered Tumblr during his time away from AEW and gained an appreciation for its artistic nature.

“In my time off, I ended up discovering what Tumblr was. I saw all this art and great stuff, and people who wanted to create things. There was a time where I think everyone was more obsessed, but I’d always look on Twitter and it was like half the people loved it and half the people, if not more, were just telling me how horrible all this was.”

Perry also gave his thoughts about how he would rather want to wrestle for the people on Tumblr than the people on Twitter.

“I would rather wrestle for the people on Tumblr than the people on Twitter. I just want to do what I want to do and entertain people. There are people who appreciate it and take it and are inspired by it. And then, to me, if you’re a grown adult who wants to sit at home and just talk s**t about wrestling — you know, you can do whatever you want, but it doesn’t seem like the most productive thing to me. I’m not gonna sit here and try and impress you if you’re determined to hate me. So with the more artistic stuff, I get a lot of, as I said, the old guys. ‘This is weird,’ Dude, whatever. It’s not for you guys. I’m not wrestling for a 60-year-old man. If you love it, that’s great. Nothing against you. But it’s for a different group for the most part.”