He owns a strong and muscular body, no less than the “original”.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is currently known as a bright Hollywood action star. He emerged from the blockbuster action series about the Fast & Furious supercars and then a series of other action films such as San Andreas, Beach Rescue Team, Chase, Spy Couple…

The Rock’s stunt cousin revealed.

Sharing about the thrilling action scenes on the screen, the 45-year-old actor frankly admitted it was all real: ” If you see me hurt or attacked, it’s all pretend, not real. okay ,” he confided to the Daily Mail .

In fact, The Rock also uses stuntmen and the two side-by-side in action movies. It was his cousin, Tanoai Reed.

The two brothers are quite similar in appearance.

The Bay Watch star does not hide about the stuntman, he often shares photos taken with Tanoai on the set of the two working together on his personal page, Instagram, with a huge following of up to 82 million. .

Poor childhood

Tanoai Reed was born in 1974 in Honolulu, Hawaii, graduated from Kahuku High School and the University of Hawaii Warrior. His childhood was associated with poverty.

He lives with his grandmother in Laie (Hawaii) and the two of them never have money when they have to live on social welfare thanks to the food stamps distributed.

“ I rarely saw a $1 bill when I was a kid .” He then joined the soccer team in his hometown and played freely. Thanks to his ability to play football, he won a scholarship to go to college. For him playing football was the first real job in his life.

“In my final year of college, I wanted to go back to competing, but the school suggested that I participate in the logistics of filming. At that time, I was dumbfounded because I felt that I was too rude. I ended up doing some mental math and thought I was going to be a millionaire ,” Tanoai recalls.

Struggling to make a living and stuck

Then he decided to look to Los Angeles for more opportunities for the future. He first came to cinema as a behind-the-scenes officer for Kevin Costner’s film Water World (1995) while the film was being filmed on the Big Island.

“ When I went to Los Angeles I met many stuntmen on set and they introduced me to the world of the cascadeur ,” says Tanoai:

“ I got to appear on television and got my first paycheck of $5,000 for two weeks of stunt work. It makes me so excited to just ride a jet ski and crash forward and then jump on the gas and shoot crazy fake guns .”

After the above film, Tanoai began to feel that stunt work was quite precarious and not lasting. He also felt that he was homeless, surrounded by no relatives, extremely lonely and felt lost: “At that time I just thought, well, now what? Just sit here and wait for them to call you? Actually in Hawaii I was a star but in Los Angeles I was just a grain of sand no one knew about .”

Tanoai is struggling because he has no home in America. He bought a truck and made a living in a foreign land. His place of accommodation is also a truck. He hired a car for 2 months, but it didn’t work and was forced to return to Hawaii.

Officially coming to the stunt profession

At this time, his biological father was also a logistics worker in the film industry in San Francisco, when he heard that his son was in trouble and he called him to work with him. Although he worked in logistics with his father, Tanoai was always thinking about working as a stuntman, so he decided to quit working with his father and start looking into cinema.

He first appeared on screen through the music video Pump It by The Black Eyed Peas, playing one of the enemies that Fergie must confront. In 2008 he appeared in the NBC sports reality series American Gladiator .

Tanoai’s stunt career really began when he acted as a stuntman in the films Six Days, Seven Nights by actor Harrison Ford, The Scorpion King and his cousin Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

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A stunt by Tanoai for The Rock in Hercules.

According to Tanoai’s own disclosure, his grandfather and The Rock brother and sister, but the two brothers did not meet until he was hired to stand for his own cousin in the movie Scorpion King (2002) : “ When I first met him, I told him about myself and then he told his mother and confirmed that we were related ”.

It is known that the cousin has accompanied The Rock for the past 13 years, becoming a professional stuntman and helping The Rock achieve the success it is today.

A stunt scene of Tanoai for The Rock in Fast & Furious.

Since then, in any action movie of The Rock, Tanoai has been accompanied. In the blockbuster series of Fast & Furious racing from the early episodes to the present, Tanoai has always been an effective stuntman for The Rock.

Using his cousin’s stunt helped Tanoai have the opportunity to meet and learn from many stuntmen for other stars, including the stuntman for Kevin Hart in the movie Spy/Central Intelligence Couple, who played the role . replacing the muscular actor Vin Diesel and the beautiful Michelle Rodriguez in Fast 8.

The advantage of both of them is that they both have similar looks, from muscular, muscular and muscular bodies to a solid face full of masculinity.

Not only that, the two are cousins, so they bond more emotionally than regular actors and other stuntmen.

To be even more like his cousin in terms of muscle, Tanoai had to work out day and night in the gym to get Dway Johnson’s The Rock-branded body when he played the legendary hero Hercules in the movie. same name.

Even when The Rock is busy or unable to meet the fans, at this time Tanoai will be the “substitute” for his cousin and have to dress like his brother to meet the public.

Another surprising commonality between the two brothers is that they both wore the number 74 shirt when they were footballers before switching careers to acting.

Independent acting and happy family

Although known as a stuntman for his cousin The Rock, Tanoai has also performed stunts for many other actors in films such as The Tuxedo, Daredevil, The Rundown, Walking Tall, Gridiron Gang …

Besides, he also participates in movies as an independent actor. He appeared in a few films such as blockbuster Superhero Revenge (2012), Iron Man 2 (2010) and Pain & Gain (2013). In 2009 he had just finished filming the movie with actor Steven Seagal in Romania with an action and stunt role.

Currently Tanoai’s plan is to learn more about acting in addition to stunt work. His life is now better thanks to the income from stunt work.

In 2009, he married stuntwoman Suzanne and has a son, Samson Reed, who is 10 years old this year. He and his wife currently live in Newbury Park, California.

His family regularly returns to his hometown of Oahu, Hawaii for 2 years to visit relatives: “ I feel like I have everything I need. I have a beautiful wife, a son and our own house in Los Angeles .”

Source: kenh14.vn