One Wild Rule Benny Safdie Impressed On Himself To Make The Smashing Machine Feel As Real As Possible: 'I Wanted It To Feel Like You Were At The Fight'

A lot of eyes are going to be on the upcoming drama The Smashing Machine when it arrives later this year. The movie will see Dwayne Johnson in a rare dramatic turn, the sort of role even The Rock admits may have scared him a little . But seeing the nearly unrecognizable actor in a serious drama isn’t the only thing that will be unique in the movie.

The Smashing Machine is about early UFC fighter Mark Kerr, and as such, we can expect some potentially action-packed sequences that show Kerr competing. However, director Benny Safdie tells Vanity Fair these scenes won’t be up close and inside the ring like we’re used to seeing in Rocky movies. Instead, the audience will get the experience of being the audience at a UFC fight. Safdie said…

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