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Dwayne Johnson and the Career Reinvention Oscar October 09, 2025
“It was my honor to transform in this role for my director Benny Safdie,” Dwayne Johnson wrote on Instagram Monday, accompanied by a photo of him in his Smashing Machine prosthetics—eyebrows thickened, cauliflower ear poking out behind a wig. “Thank ...
Rock, Smash October 03, 2025
As the former UFC and Pride combatant Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, Dwayne Johnson is a walking contradiction: He’s seriously bulked up yet somehow smaller than life, a stranger in his own tanned and tautly muscled skin. Whether w...
The Rock Returns as 'The Smashing Machine' October 03, 2025
Movie star Dwayne Johnson has a laundry list of injuries he's sustained over the course of his career as a profession wrestler and a college football player. There was a ruptured Achilles tendon, a complete shoulder reconstruction and either four or ...
“The Smashing Machine” Pulls Its Punches October 01, 2025
Only two kinds of actors are bad: those who can’t be themselves and those who you wish wouldn’t be. All the rest are likely to shine in movies by good directors, and most actors whose reputations aren’t illustriously artistic have mainly been unfortu...
'The Smashing Machine' Is a Triumph for Dwayne Johnson September 26, 2025
This story contains spoilers for true events depicted in The Smashing Machine.It looked like a classic Hollywood ending: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, sobbing (“uncontrollably,” per Variety) through a 15-minute standing ovation after the Venice Film Fes...
What Dwayne Johnson Knows About Pain September 25, 2025
The first really exciting moment of my day with Dwayne Johnson was when he showed me the evolution of his punch. We were talking in a room near his kitchen. Johnson was barefoot, legs stretched out on his couch. He wore black jeans and a black Willie...
The People’s Champ Has Lost His People November 26, 2024
Picture this, because it really happened: Dwayne Johnson stands in an IMAX theater, taking Christopher Nolan's seat. "I even asked to let me sit where Chris sits," he said in a recent interview with Imax. "They said, 'Chris sits here.'" He watches Op...
Why 'Red One' Flopped November 22, 2024
Is “Red One,” Dwayne Johnson’s Yuletide action extravaganza with a gargantuan $250 million budget, a sign of where the movie business is headed or a relic from its free-spending, streaming wars past?...
Dwayne Johnson Is Trying to Disappear November 12, 2024
It’s not that Dwayne Johnson is tall, though he is—about six feet four inches and broad, with an adamantine bald head and sculptural shoulders. It’s not that he is part Samoan, part Black, though he is that too. It’s not even that Johnson is what Hol...
The Rock is a Harbinger of America’s Decline March 15, 2024
As a steroidal colossus towering over his peers, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson bestrides the barren expanse of modern celebrity like no other. His influence is unrivalled, spanning the realms of professional wrestling, corporate behemoths and, as his bri...
