It's proving to be an emotional year at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, and for the first time in his professional acting career, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has arrived on the Lido.

Johnson's upcoming film "The Smashing Machine" will have its world premiere Monday night in Venice.

The wrestler-turned-actor and his costars arrived in the floating city earlier in the day. They held a panel discussion ahead of the film's big screening, and Johnson opened up about his significant transformation for his role as UFC fighter Mark Kerr, who struggled with addiction.

"When you're in Hollywood, as we all know, and it has 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 can push you into a catego

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