Brennan Lee Mulligan on ‘Dimension 20: Titan Takedown’ and Why Learning About WWE Was Like ‘Dante’s Inferno’

variety.com:

Lauren Coates Brennan Lee Mulligan has shown “Dimension 20” viewers countless new worlds as the dungeon master of Dropout‘s tabletop actual play series, but now he’s stepping into a new realm: professional wrestling.

The latest season of “Dimension 20,” “Titan Takedown,” is a four-episode side quest that swaps Mulligan’s usual crew of comics and D&D aficionados for a quartet of WWE wrestlers: Bayley, Chelsea Green, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods/Austin Creed.

Though Dungeons & Dragons and pro-wrestling may seem like two different universes, Mulligan says the idea for a wrestling season of “Dimension 20” has been brewing for some time. “These wrestlers have tons of fans among the Dropout staff and the ‘Dimension 20’ cast and crew,” he told Variety. “We’d had Austin [Creed] on ‘Um, Actually’ and word got to me that he loved playing D&D, so there was immediately a connection there.

I was like ‘Oh, I wonder if there are any other wrestlers that would be interested,’ and when the time came to really start exploring it, [casting director] Jazzy Collins made it all come together.” Though he didn’t know much about wrestling before the season began, the Dropout crew was more than happy to help fill in the gaps. “In the months leading up to ‘Titan Takedown’ I went from being tangentially aware to being led by the hand like Virgil and Dante,” Mulligan said. “I had absolute wrestling super-maven Danielle Radford, who opened my eyes.