Dwayne Johnson has reached a “turning point” in his acting career.
The wrestler-turned-movie star plays real-life MMA fighter Mark Kerr in a sports drama. The crushing machine and admitted that the job “completely changed” his life.
During an appearance in The Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards talk On the podcast, he explained, “Smashing Machine completely changed my life in a way I didn’t expect, because of what it represents.”
He jumanji Star continued, “To me, it represents listening to your gut, your instinct, that little voice. Sometimes in life, you think you’re capable of something, but you don’t quite know it. And sometimes you need the people around you to tell you, ‘Come on, you could do this.'”
“Smashing Machine also represents a turning point in my career that I have wanted for a long time: for the first time in my career (more than 20 years since The Scorpion King came out) I made a film to challenge myself and really open up and go somewhere else, disappear and transform,” he added.
“And I never once thought about the box office,” Dwayne said, adding, “Even though we didn’t do well [at the box office]or as good as we wanted, it was good because it just represented what I did for me.”
“Maybe it was because I was an only child, but all the things I had experienced as a child and teenager – the eviction, my mother tried to kill herself two months after we were evicted and I ran her out of the middle of the road, a lot of things happened – I had refused to explore any of that in the film,” he said. moana the star explained.
“Over the years I made other movies that were big and fun, jumanji and moanawith a happy ending, and I still love that,” he said.
But then he compared The crushing machine and added. “But what this represented was, ‘Oh wait, I can do what I love, which is tell stories, but I could also take all this stuff and have a place to put it.'”
“Anyway, Crusher machine“As you see, it was the opportunity of a lifetime that changed my life,” concluded Dwayne Johnson.
