I t’s proving to be a busy period for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson , sometime WWE professional wrestler and Hollywood film star. Well, another one. Red One , a Christmas-themed action movie (Johnson plays Santa Claus’s bodyguard), was released earlier this month.
The Disney animation , Moana 2 (for which he voices the tattooed demigod Maui) is about to be released. He is also in the process of filming the new live-action version of Moana , and embarking on another Disney movie, Monster Jam . If anyone is surprised by Johnson’s repeated donning of the cinematic mouse ears, or by his general presence in children’s films, they shouldn’t be.
While he is probably still best known for the Fast & Furious film franchise, and other flexes of his big-screen muscle, he has long been a staple in family movies. With his reputed $50m fee for Red One, and with an estimated net worth of about $800m, he has become one of Hollywood’s highest paid stars. Johnson also made the Time magazine 100 list of influential people – not once but twice, in 2016 and 2019.
The Rock should run for US president , you may josh. That very suggestion was tested by a sizeable 2021 poll resulting in 46% of Americans saying they would back him (more of which anon). If, for some of us, Johnson does not register on our radar, leastways not in these rarefied zones, or to such an extent, then we haven’t been paying attention.
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