Dwayne Johnson Got Real About Why Saying ‘F— All This’ Helped His Acting Career Skyrocket



Dwayne Johnson is one of the biggest movie stars in the world, in that he is both incredibly famous and physically massive. Two of The Rock’s upcoming movies are arriving this month, and each one could be a big hit. Johnson is one of the most in-demand stars today, but The Rock says that wasn’t always necessarily going to be the case, and he had to fight against conventional wisdom to get here.

Dwayne Johnson is far from the first to make the jump from professional wrestling to acting, though is certainly the most successful. In the early 2000s, he made the shift from full-time wrestler to full-time actor but he says that rather than being embraced as the star he already was, people told him he would need to change if he wanted to be a Hollywood leading man. Johnson told EW

‘If you wanna be a leading man, you’re too big; you can’t go to the gym, you have to lose weight, you gotta go on a diet.’ And if you don’t know any better, then you buy into it, so I started to question myself then. Some of those films at the time I was making, I think, reflect that. And then a moment came where I said, ‘Excuse my language but f— that, I’m not doing this anymore, I’m gonna do myself. And if I fail, then I can fail being me.’



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