The opportunity for Dwayne Johnson arrives to win an Oscar. If he does, it will be in his sauce, a clean punch
Dwayne Johnson, known as The Rock is one of Hollywood’s best paid actors, thanks to her ultra -box office repertoire. But behind this fame a big problem has always been hidden: it doesn’t matter if you remember it more for groundbreaking, Jumanji or Fast N Furious, Do you remember the character’s name or simply “The Rock interpreted it”?
If there is anything that tries to flee every actor to always interpret the same role, because, let’s be honest, we have all ever done the joke of “It’s * Insert Blockbuster actor/actor’s name * playing * Insert the same name blockbuster actor/actor name *! ”. It is true that this joke chases many more commercial Hollywood actors but each one carries it as it carries it: Daniel Radcliffe has focused his career from Harry Potter in making independent cinema with very complex characters, but there are also cases like that of Nicolas Cage, who came to” embrace the meme “in the wonderful The unbearable weight of a huge talent interpreting a parody of himself called Nick Cage.
New face, new career
In the case of Dwayne Johnson, It seems that he is determined to change the public’s perception about himbut without going for comedy or a super -late role of itself. It is clear that what he is looking for is to turn, mixing his knowledge as an actor, with his past as WWE fighter, in the new production of acclaimed A24, called The Smashing Machine.
Known for Oscar winning titles like everything at once everywhere or the whale, A24 has opted for Dwayne Johnson to play Mark Kerran acclaimed American fighter from MMA. The Smashing Machine will portray Kerr’s life during his apogee era in the UFC, while fighting addiction, victory and love problems. It is an interesting turn by A24, since it usually produces with a much more independent air and without treating lives of famous figures in such a direct way. The logical thing would be to think that, with the success of past productions, with Dwayne Johnson, what is aiming at an even more general audience. But really for what we can see A24 is far from wanting Dwayne to continue doing Dwayne.
In the available images of the movie we can see … well, rather, We can’t see Dwayne Johnson. It is unrecognizable, thanks to a great characterization work with many prostheses. But the best thing about the trailer is to see how Dwayne has finally joined his two talents without being the super exaggerated character we usually see, using them as tools to better tell the story of another fighter. And it has a very different presence from what he usually shows in cinemas! In fact, Mark Kerr himself talked about the movie on Instagram:
“I am very proud of the work that DJ did to become The Smashing Machine. I feel a lot of gratitude, humility and respect for every small detail that production has discovered. I can’t wait to share this experience with the world. ”
You are already talking about a possible Oscar nomination for the actor. It is not a very far -fetched elucubration, taking into account that Brendan Fraser, he got his after his first work with A24. But only time will say if this is going to be the case or if it will have a trajectory in the academy similar to Demi Moore. Anyway, it is clear that a good interpretation of Mark Kerr awaits us on the screen by Dwayne Johnson, who hopes to give him the opportunity to carve his future in Hollywood to his liking. But so that we can see the final result of your work we will still have to wait: The Smashing Machine will not reach cinemas until October 3 of this year.
