Dwayne Johnson He is prepared to address another facet as an actor, leaving action cinema aside and moving this time in a serious role, with the sports drama The Smashing Machine of the screenwriter and director Benny Safdie and the study A24.
Johnson looks unrecognizable in the new glances shared by Vanity Fair, where we see the actor in complete characterization Like the bicampeón of heavyweight of the UFC, Mike Kerr. To achieve its appearance, “La Roca” went from three to four hours in the makeup chair every morning before filming.
Johnson's incursion in this genre is something unusual, and something for which the actor admitted to having felt an unprecedented level of nervousness when starting the production by Safdie.
Johnson declares the following:
“It was very real. It had been a long time since I experienced something like that. I was very afraid and thought: 'I don't know if I can with this. Can I?'
The movie It tells Ker's professional triumphs and personal strugglesincluding their battles against substance abuse and his tumultuous relationship with his wife Dawnplayed by Emily Bluntwith whom Johnson maintains a close friendship since they co -starred Jungle Cruise Disney
On Johnson's new role, Blunt told VF:
“DJ has been pigeonholed in the image of the great hero That has all the answers, that everything will fix it and that is invincible. I think until that moment, Maybe I thought that was the only way on which people wanted to see it“.
In Blunt's words, Johnson's transformation is an “effortless immersion” in Kerr:
“As a total, spooky disappearance. From the first day, it was elsewhere. He has absorbed and witnessed so much of what Mark has experienced, that It was so beautiful to see this person stop being an image, to be The Rock, and split in two for this role”.
On the process to achieve its characterization and transformation in Kerr, Johnson added some details, as well as praised Blunt's presence to make it possible:
“I sat in front of that mirror for three or four hours and observed how everything changed. There were about 13 or 14 different prostheses. Subtle, but I think very shocking. By the time I arrived at the set, it was Mark Kerr and felt it, from how he walked to how he spoke and how he saw life … If Emily and I weren't better friends, I don't know if we could have going to the places we went to. That closeness created trust, which in turn allowed vulnerability, which in turn allowed us to go anywhere. ”
“You have to be willing to connect with everything you have lived, and This was something that had not explored either before the cameras or any other way. I am not very therapist, although I am a defender of what you need. It seemed very scary, but also very enriching and liberating. I opened it completely”.
The feature film producers are Safdie, Johnson, Eli Bush, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, and David Koplan.
The Smashing Machine It will celebrate its World Cup premiere in the main competition of the 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival on September 1.
Its premiere is planned for the October 3 in Cinemas from the United States by A24and the October 9 in cinemas from Mexico by Diamond Films.
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Source: https://cine3.com/irreconocible-dwayne-johnson-ufc-the-smashing-machine-a24/
