It’s hard to believe that Dwayne Johnson received his first Golden Globes nomination on Monday after starring in over 60 movies during his decades-spanning career. But his dramatic role of Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine finally got the actor some awards recognition.

To Johnson, however, the nomination means more than just recognition. “I think the nomination represents the fight in everybody, especially with addictions and those demons that you battle,” Johnson tells The Hollywood Reporter on Monday in the interview below. “Mark Kerr had it all and lost everything, and has since become sober. He did overdose twice. Life is good because he’s sober and because he made it. And not everyone is that lucky. That’s the movie that we wanted to make: a nod to those wh

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