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The Rock discussed his forthcoming film The Smashing Machine in a feature article in Vanity Fair.
On going deep and transforming himself into MMA fighter Mark Kerr for the role, Dwayne Johnson said, "It was very real. I had not experienced that in a very, very, very long time, where I was really scared and thinking, I don’t know if I can do this. Can I do this? I realized that maybe these opportunities weren’t coming my way because I was too scared to explore this stuff.”
Emily Blunt, who plays Mark Kerr's wife Dawn in the film commented, “It seemed to be an effortless immersion—like a full disappearance, spooky. From day one, he was elsewhere. He has absorbed and borne witness to so much of what Mark has experienced that it was such a beautiful thing to watch this person let go of having to be an image, of having to be The Rock, and crack himself in half for this role.”
“You have to be willing to tap into all the stuff that you’ve gone through, and this was stuff that I had not explored on camera or otherwise,” Johnson says. “I’m not a big therapy person, even though I’m an advocate for whatever it is you need. I found it so scary, but also, so nourishing and freeing. I ripped it open.”
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