Keith Lee is coming off the best stretch of his NXT career, including going toe-to-toe with WWE staples Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins to close their match at Survivor Series and breaking the internet with two very different GIFs. He made time for some Q&A with The Post’s Joseph Staszewski before NXT (Wednesday, 8 p.m., USA) hits the air again.

Q: What have the last few months been like for you? It seems like every day things are building for you in NXT.

A: To be quite honest, it feels like the rest of my career, even before WWE. It was a lot of waiting and hoping for an opportunity, and then an opportunity came and I crushed it. It’s kind of been my M.O. in this sport where I have to wait and see if an opportunity will come, and then when it gets there if I don’t do everything in my ability to absolutely crush it, then I feel like I’m missing the boat. So that’s been the thing.

Q: When they were putting together “Bask in his glory” and the “Limitless” idea for you, did that just seem to fit, and how did that come about?

A: Those are things I actually created for myself. “Bask in his glory” came about in my last WWE tryout (in 2013), kind of the final failure that nearly had me stop wrestling because it was my third tryout (2008, 2011) and I just didn’t think … at the end of the day, maybe I didn’t make the right choice.

But I had a few conversations that kind of kept the fire lit for me. One of them was with Dusty Rhodes, and how a lot had changed with me in terms of my presence and my personality and how I exude the energy I have. He told me that I have a presence that he can literally bask in. He said take it and do with it what you will.

“Limitless” kind of came about by accident. I realized that what I’m able to do in the ring literally has no limits, and so that’s something that was created as something to go along with it. It just kind of felt like it fit and it feels like WWE has accepted it.

Q: What did it mean for you to go to Raw, SmackDown and Survivor Series, and the crowd is chanting “Bask in his glory?” Often people come to the main roster and are worried if the audience will know them.

A: I’m in the understanding that being known and having an effect on an audience of WWE’s size is fairly important. Being worried about that makes it a little more difficult. I also like the challenge that that is. Introducing myself to people is one of my favorite things to do.

Q: What was your reaction when you were told it was going to be you and Roman Reigns to end your Survivor Series match?

A: (Laughs) You want the honest answer? I stopped for a moment. And I looked around like, ‘Are they sure that they’re talking to me?’ And then there was a brief moment of about seven seconds where I didn’t do anything and gradually, randomly, casually say, “Oh crap,” because I have no idea, none. Limited time fame and figuring it all out is a big challenge in its own right.

Q: What will you remember the most about Survivor Series?

A: That whole experience was one thing, but the moment it came down to me, Seth [Rollins] and Roman, I think from there right up until that fist bump is all things that I’ll remember because it was the first time mixing it up with people considered to be the two faces of WWE. The honor was immense and full of excitement and energy and passion. It was fantastic.

Q: How much was that an example of you getting an opportunity and crushing it?

A: If you get in the ring with guys of that caliber and you slip at all, it’s very easy to see, but if you’re full of confidence and able to hold your own on a stage that large with those two faces, I think that alone in and of itself, to command the crowd at the level that I did with those two in the ring made a lot of statements and turned a lot of heads.

Q: You followed Survivor Series up by breaking the internet. Did you and Adam Cole talk about that push over the railing or practice it at all, or just two guys nailing it in the moment?

A: A hundred percent that last thing that you said. He’s not the guy who should have been involved with that, to be honest. That entire match was … (laugh). There was no opportunity to talk because a person in the match that was supposed to be in the match got injured in Bobby Fish. It shuffled everyone around and then everything was done on the fly.

Q: Were you concerned at all when you saw him fly that far?

A: Yeah, because the first time I saw it, I didn’t even believe it could be real. Like, I did not think that I hit him that hard. It was like a movie scene with wire work and they just yanked him out of the screen or something. He left the frame, man. When I hit him, he almost went over everyone, and that could have been really, really bad. Obviously I want to beat up Adam Cole, but I don’t want to just end him (laugh).

Q: Do you like that GIF more or the one where you sneak up on Finn Balor?

A: I feel like I like them both equally because they bring about balance to each other. One is just completely obliterating a human being and the other one is pretty much a horror movie.

Q: How does NXT keep some of the momentum it built off of Survivor Series?

A: I feel like that experience opened a lot of eyes for people of what we can be. I don’t know if anyone bought the idea of NXT being the third brand, but there’s a lot of us that believed we could take on such a monumental task, and because of that there is a certain hunger and a certain pride about the abilities that we carry and the matches that we’re able to produce from story to athletic feats to things you’ve never seen before.

Q: Did it bother anyone when you got some ratings wins over AEW, it was kind of like, “Well, it’s because the main roster stars were on those shows?”

A: I don’t think anyone was paying attention to that, to be quite honest with you. I think that everyone just wanted to put on the best product that we could, and I don’t think that it honestly has to do with ratings. I feel like a lot of our guys don’t really pay a lot of attention to that. But at the end of the day, if wins come and people are happy about it, then good for them.

Q: How important was it for you and Dominik Dijakovic to get back to those matches after he got hurt and went away?

A: It was very important because we are each other’s potentially greatest rival, and what does a rival do but bring out the best in you in most cases. So to have the opportunity to compete against an athlete of his caliber makes one of my caliber push even further than normal.

Q: In my preparing for this, it was hard to find information about you growing up. I know your grandmother kind of got you into wrestling. What was it like for Keith Lee growing up?

A: So, there was this enormous body pillow in my grandmother’s den. And I think this was what kind of facilitated a fire in me at a young age. I started watching it and my cousins would all throw each other on this big pillow. It was our fun place back at a time when it was actually possible to pick me up and slam me. I think that kind of set me up.

Q: Was there a favorite wrestler you pretended to be?

A: Sometime it was “Macho Man” Randy Savage. He was the one I probably did the most until later years, and then the early 2000s really brought along Brock Lesnar and Kurt Angle for me.

Q: You played football and tennis growing up. Was there any freaky athletic thing you might have done in sports outside wrestling?

A: Football, I think the fact that I nearly played every position kind of displays the more all-around kind of athleticism. Even in basketball I played three different positions.

Q: Did you play some point?

A: I played some point. I played some small forward and some power forward. It’s a weird mixture of abilities, but it’s always been that way. More of a hybrid athlete. I didn’t really connect the dots until I started to get to WWE.

Q: You lost your match to be No. 1 contender for the NXT championships last week. What’s next for you?

A: I don’t know what the chances are or what I need to do to try to get it done, but maybe there is a Royal Rumble entry for me or something where I can try to create something once again that’s special and magical. Outside of that, when you fall from the bottom, you got to kind of work your way back up.