Dwayne Johnson desperately wanted to play ‘Reacher’, but instead obtained the most successful role of his life – movie news
A famous film about an iconic character that went to Hollywood’s biggest action star.
Even the great Hollywood stars that knead fortunes and franchises have had to face the difficulties of the first years in the industry, frustrated papers, several unpleasant experiences or the failure of a work in which they had put all their illusion. In the case of Dwayne Johnson, whom throughout his career we have seen triumph from the hand of Fast & Furious, Jumanji, Poyecto rampage either Baywatchbetween a long etcetera, after the end of his tour as a professional fighter, in 2011 He lost a role that could have translated into a fairly significant turn for his career.
Dwayne Johnson himself spoke of it in 2016, when He said he had been one of the actors who had fought to take the role of Jack Reacher in the action saga and ‘thriller’ Jack Reacher which would finally star Tom Cruise. A role that, even despite having complex choreographies of struggle, persecutions and all the ingredients of the genre, It is not a fiction film to use and was precisely quite praised for that reason.
As Dwayne Johnson explained, losing that role, years later with perspective, was not so bad, but at that time he fit it because EHe was convinced that he had a very real opportunity to get him.
In Lee Child’s novels that the saga is adaptation Reacher is described as a man of great proportions: one meter ninety -five and 113 kilos that, really, is much closer to Dwayne Johnson’s physicist than Tom Cruise’swhich is much closer to the Metro sixty than of the eighties.
However, Johnson ended up losing the role before the star of Top Gun and of Mission: Impossible, whose skills such as the great Hollywood action hero are out of any matter apart from what their size is. . which is much closer to the Metro sixty than of the eighties.
Tom was the world’s largest film star and I didn’t. I received the call by saying: ‘Hey, you didn’t get the role’. I didn’t even know if I had a chance, but the people around me at that time made me think so
“I felt as if I had it. I felt like, why not me?” Johnson admitted in a Facebook interview.
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After the disappointment, the actor recovered, continued working and years later he was completely clear that it was not a great loss: “I am sure that in the role of Jack Reacher, because he was an established character, a well -known and loved personality throughout the world, he would not have had the creative space to do what he wanted with the character. I look back with gratitude for not having Jack Reacher. ”
And also because later he had the opportunity to take the role of Luke Hobbs in the fifth delivery of the franchise Fast & Furious. “The universe works in a fun way. When that door closed before me, another door opened with the opportunity to create a character from scratch that was from my DNA “.
For his part, Tom Cruise, whose choice for Jack Reacher was questioned precisely by a matter of size, demonstrated that he is a hero of action from head to toe and his work had such a good reception that he could return as the character in a sequel: Jack Reacher: Never go back.
