Although his role in the new A24 film “The crushing machine“Directed by Benny Safdie, beats something familiar territory, with the WWE Super star playing early UFC champion Mark Kerr, actor Dwayne Johnson revealed that taking the project on required the encouragement for its co -star Emily Blunt.
“It was this voice inside me; the little voice said,” Well, what if I could do more, and I want to do more, and what does it look like? “And from the beginning, from the time we worked with” Jungle Cruise “, she really encouraged me, saying,” You know, there is a place that you can do all this you have gone through as a child. Venice Film festival.
“I am very close with Emily and shared a lot of everything I’ve gone through,” he added. “And then Benny was on the other side of this saying,” Hi, I have both of you “and” Let’s go for it. “So that transformation could not have happened without my best friend being there to support and encourage and just say” you can do it. ”
When asked if he felt like playing Kerr in Sports Biopic, who already earns prizes, was because he still had something to prove to Hollywood, Johnson made it clear that it was more about proven something to himself. “(Hollywood) Had Become About Box Office, And You Chase The Box Office. And the Box Office In Our Business That We Know Is Very Loud, And It Can Be Very Resounding, And It Could Push You Into A Category, and Into A Corner, and ‘This What You You People want you to be, ‘and’ this is what Hollywood Wants You to Be, ‘And I Understood That, And I Made Those Movies, and I Liked them, and they were fun, and some (each) really good and did well, and some not so good, “he said. “Many times it is harder for us that, or at least for me sometimes, knowing what you can when you have been pigeon in something. It’s harder to know, ‘Can I do it? I feel I can.’
Johnson points out that “Jungle Cruise” is a turning point that began to drive him away from the massive blockbuster expected of him. “Sometimes it takes people you love and you respect, like Emily and Benny, to say you can,” he said. The Actor Spent The Next Year Looking Around and Thinking “Am I Living My Dream, or Am I Living Other People’s Dreams? And you come to that recognition. And you could eiter in line – ‘well, it’s status quo. Things are good. Now, and do what I want to do, and tap into the stuff that I want to tap into, and have a place, finally, to put all this stuff that i’ve Experienced in the past, that I have shot away from, been afraid to go deep and intensely and raw until now.
Director Safdie responded to the star of his film and said, “There is strength in that vulnerability.” When he reflected on working with Johnson on “The Smashing Machine,” he said “I felt I could ask you to do anything, and the subtleest things, and it would just be internalized and processed, and then it would come out, and then just felt it the best.
