As he continued to describe the events, Bischoff detailed Vince’s involvement in his kiss scene with Linda, “Vince wasn’t in the room, I think he was watching from a monitor in another room. Fortunately, we nailed it in one take, and that was the end of it. Vince thanked me, he was excited about it. He had a big grin on his face, he was happy with the scene. As long as Vince was happy with it, I was happy with it.” Although Vince wasn’t physically present, Bischoff recalled the pre-shoot talk he received from McMahon whereby the WWE Chairman made it clear to him that the scene wasn’t meant to be “romantic” in nature.

“Vince wanted it to look very forceful,” Bischoff said. “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? [Laughs] That would get anybody hot. People can relate to that, I guess.” Bischoff stressed that once the initial awkwardness of kissing his boss’ wife was out of the way, the scene “felt like any other scene” he had shot in his previous years for WCW and WWE.

“Once we [Linda and I] blocked everything out and took Vince’s notes — he wanted to make sure I put her arm behind her back and forced her — that was it. We blocked it. We shot it. I went home.”