Young Rock, a three-season sitcom depicting Dwayne Johnson’s early life and times before he assumed the role of Black Adam and became an all-around well-known Hollywood megastar, is modeled after the Big Bang Theory spinoff Young Sheldon.
Recently, a moment in which The Rock receives encouragement from his grandmother, Lia Maivia, about whether or not the young wrestler will succeed and bring his family with him, piqued the interest of viewers of the show.
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Dwayne Johnson clarified the situation on Twitter and clarified a small error regarding the different nicknames that his on-screen grandmother gives to his character in the show:
So there you have it – to his grandmother, Dwayne Johnson was always Tuifea’i, not DJ, Dwayne, or Dewey. Familial encouragement is definitely a heartwarming thing, but The Rock’s grandmother’s belief that Johnson would go on to become one of the most celebrated actors in the world really is something because he sure went ahead and did it.
Of course, there’s another former wrestler nipping at Johnson’s heels of late, after conversations sparking comparisons between himself and Dave Bautista started circulating the internet when Glass Onion director Rian Johnson made a sweeping declaration that the latter star is the best actor turned wrestler.
Perhaps the pair should return to the WWE ring and duke it out. It won’t necessarily solve the debate, but at the very least it’ll be entertaining.
Fans collectively hallucinating Dwayne Johnson’s role in ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’
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Was The Rock in Avatar 2? Despite what IMDB might tell them, many fans of the Black Adam star, as well as many of the millions that have flocked to see the long-awaited sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water are convinced they spotted Dwayne Johnson in the background of the new installment of the sci-fi franchise. Even though they really haven’t.
There are a lot of high-profile stars in the newest Avatar movie. Cameron’s former Titanic star Kate Winslet plays a major role, and The Sopranos Edie Falco plays a supporting role, as does The Rock’s fellow Moana voice actor Jemaine Clement. But Johnson himself did not actually appear anywhere on the computer-generated surface (or even below the sea) of Pandora.
It seems that many are mistaking two other actors in the movie for Johnson. One is New Zealand actor Cliff Curtis, who portrays Tonowari, the chief of the seaside-dwelling Metkayina clan. While Curtis and Johnson both share Polynesian ethnicity — Curtis is of Maori descent, and Johnson has Samoan heritage —neither actor would likely be mistaken as the other in real life. However, the intense CGI necessary to make a human actor look like an alien Na’vi appears to have left some people unable to tell the two apart.
there’s a guy in avatar 2 who looks uncannily like the rock but I can’t find anything about it because there’s another guy that all the news articles said looks like the rock even though he doesn’t at all
People may also be mistaking the Rock for one of the bad guys in The Way of Water. Of course, the character is still heavily CGI-ed. While some people aren’t seeing it, a smaller segment of “observant” fans seem to have mistaken actor Matt Gerald, who plays Corporal Lyle Wainfleet, a member of Colonel Miles Quaritch’s recombinant strike team in the film. Once again, Gerald isn’t really someone you’d mistake for the almost supernaturally swole Dwayne Johnson but put a lair of CGI on him and then put on a pair of 3D glasses… and he kind of looks like The Rock? A little?
There’s no telling why folks are projecting The Rock onto planet pandora but there’s still plenty of time for James Cameron to make it a reality. There are still two more (at least!) Avatar sequels to go.
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