Decades Before The Smashing Machine, Dwayne Johnson Showed Off His Chops In A Weirdo Dystopia Movie

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Can you SMELLLLL … what The Rock is cooking ? That would be a career pivot away from the big action blockbusters he cranked once or twice a year in the 2010s. With the box office numbers for Jungle Cruise , Red One , and Black Adam (the latter of which was supposed to launch a whole interconnected series of DC films) drying up, Johnson is migrating over to smaller-scale dramas.

Shifting up the type of films he’s headlining isn’t unprecedented for Dwayne Johnson. My first introduction to the guy (as a young woman who didn’t watch WWE) was on a June 2008 Entertainment Weekly cover where his knowing grin was accompanied by the text “THE

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