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“I can tell you what I won’t be getting,” said World Wrestling Entertainment star Ted DiBiase Jr. as he examined the menu at Yolk (747 N Wells St.) Wednesday morning. “Buttermilk pancakes. I want to, but I’m not going to.”

DiBiase — who is 6-foot-3 and a muscular 230 lbs. — isn’t out of shape. Not even close. But in an industry where putting on weight can land you in the doghouse, you can understand why the former tag-team champion instead ordered the multi-grain pancakes.

DiBiase, son of wrestling legend “The Million Dollar Man” Ted Dibiase, is an up-and-coming star in WWE. The 27-year-old wrestler was given the lead role in the straight-to-DVD film, “The Marine 2,” which is a sequel to 2006’s “Marine” film starring fellow wrestler John Cena. From what DiBiase hears, he beat out 5-time WWE champion Randy Orton for the role.

To prepare for his film debut, DiBiase took acting lessons with a teacher in Los Angeles.

“He would play my wife,” DiBiase said of his acting teacher. “The first day, his voice would go extremely high. He’d get really into it and tell me how much he loved me. A few times I lost it and was like, ‘Man, you’ve got to stop that. This is getting weird.’ But he turned out to be very cool, very helpful. He made me realize less is more.”

According to DiBiase, WWE now has its own acting class for up-and-coming wrestlers. The class is meant to make the wrestlers more comfortable on the microphone and help them with those entertaining backstage promos wrestling is well known for.

Who is teaching these classes?

“Vince McMahon, himself,” DiBiase said . “For the CEO of a company to take an hour of his day and spend it with up-and-coming guys is really cool. You get to know him on a more personal level.”

DiBiase’s famous father, a WWE Hall of Famer, also wrestled for McMahon. “The Million Dollar Man” was known for his submission move, “The Million Dollar Dream,” and for sticking a hundred dollar bill in his opponent’s mouth. He was escorted to the ring by his “bodyguard,” Virgil, who eventually smashed his head into an exposed turnbuckle at SummerSlam in 1991.

“He told me ‘No matter what you see, I’m OK,’” DiBiase said of his father. “I understood at an early age that it was entertainment. I was never scared. Whenever I saw him on TV, I’d get excited. I didn’t care if he won or lost. I was just excited to see him.”

Because of his father’s millionaire character, some of DiBiase’s classmates assumed he was living in luxury (“I would just go with it sometimes”). He also remembers all the fights he got into because people wanted to test him.

One of his favorite childhood memories was the time Virgil surprised him by picking him up from school. And then there was the time in fourth grade when he stole his father’s “Million Dollar Belt” and brought it to school.

“All the kids were bringing pet hamsters,” DiBiase said. “And then I open a suitcase and there it is: The ‘Million Dollar Belt.’ I threw it over my shoulder and had like three or four girlfriends by the end of the day. My dad didn’t find out for a while.”

As famous as DiBiase’s father might have been, he never starred in his own action movie. He does, however, appear in the “Marine 2” DVD extras.

“My dad actually cried after seeing [the movie] because he was so proud [of me],” DiBiase said. “That was cool for me. Trying to follow in his footsteps is tough. He’s the Million Dollar Man. It’s hard to come out of that shadow.

“But I’ve got one up on him now.”

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