The internet went to Overdrive this week when photos of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson showed how he leaned himself in his role as MMA legend Mark Kerr by leaning and dropping 60 pounds for what many critics are his best as his best execution so far. In fact, the reception for the Smashing Machine has been so great that DJ even shed a tear during his recent premiere.
While the rock became viral for cutting a more slender look, while in Venice for the Prime Minister of his Mark Kerr Biography, the Smashing Machine, the Buzz already started around a potential career -Definier defined the performance that an Oscar could add to his list of performance. The film, directed by Benny Safde, who is perhaps best known for non-cut precious stones with Adam Sandler, and also in the leading role Emily Blunt, digs in the tests and tests of the double UFC Heavyweight Champion Mark Kerr, and is also based on the HBO-Documentary 2009, also also called The Smashing Machine.
Unlike Johnson’s lighter roles in cash register colossen such as Jumanji And Jungle cruise, The former WWE champion should channel a more vulnerable side of his character to tackle a story that the problems with mental health and substance abuse that Kerr had during his illustrious but challenging career during his illustrious but challenging career. To become a credible MMA hunter, Johnson collaborated with Kerr’s former rival-gone friend, Mark Coleman. UFC’s president, Dana White has praised the project and tell Collider; “I think this could be the opportunity for the rock to actually be nominated for an Oscar.”
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While Johnson got the headlines for his meager, common, smashing machine of a figure in Venice, critics weighed on the film itself. “It is difficult to remember another time that the actor has been so vulnerable on the screen,” wrote Jack King of GQ Magazine. “You often forget that it is Johnson, partly because of the prostheses behind which he is subtly masked, but also because he has been transformed so emotionally.”
Yasmine Kandil from Film wrote: “The Smashing machine is more than just another sports biopic, which investigates what makes us or breaks us through spectacular lead performance by Dwayne Johnson.”
Some critics have been less convincedHowever. “The Awards season equivalent of a” Fugazi “Diamant,” wrote Kevin Maher van de Times. “It looks like an Oscar medical party, it shines like an Oscar competition, but on closer inspection it is completely plastic and usually worthless.”
Whether or not DJ will leave his flowers Oscar season, “The People’s Champion” has shown how much this version means to him. The soft giant was reduced to tears during the 15 -minute ovation That the film received in Venice. A vulnerable Johnson was real, while he thinks about his acting CV, during a recent interview with Vanity Fair. “I realized that these opportunities might not come my way because I was too scared to explore this stuff,” he explained. “I was so hungry for the opportunity to do something raw and grainy and to tear myself open. And suddenly, Smashing machine Come by. “
The Smashing Machine Theaters touches on October 3, 2025. Click here to follow the rock on Instagram.
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