Entertainment
Dwayne Johnson reveals how his career ‘completely changed’
Dwayne Johnson has reached a “turning point” in his acting career.
The wrestler-turned-movie star plays real life MMA fighter Mark Kerr in sports drama The Smashing Machine and he’s admitted the job “completely changed” his life.
During an appearance on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, he explained: “Smashing Machine completely changed my life in ways that I didn’t anticipate, because of what it represents.”
The Jumanji star continued, “It represents, for me, listening to your gut, to your instinct, to that little voice. Sometimes in life, you think you’re capable of something, but you don’t quite know. And sometimes it takes people around you to go: ‘Come on, you could do this.’”
“Smashing Machine also represents a turning point in my career that I’ve wanted for a long time: for the first time in my career —-20 plus years since The Scorpion King came out – I made a film to challenge myself and to really rip myself open and to go elsewhere and disappear and transform,” he added.
“And not one time did I think about box office,” Dwayne claimed, adding, “Even though we didn’t do well [at the box office], or as well as we wanted to, it was okay because it just represented the thing I did for me.”
“Maybe it was because I was an only child, but all the stuff that I had experienced as a kid and as a teenager – eviction, my mom tried to take her life two months after we got evicted and I pulled her out of the middle of the highway, a whole bunch of stuff happened – I had rejected exploring any of that on film,” the Moana star explained.
“For years I would do these other films that were big and fun, Jumanji and Moana, with a happy ending, and I love that still,” he said.
But then he compared The Smashing Machine and added. “But what this represented was: ‘Oh wait, I can do the thing I love, which is to tell stories, but I could also take all this stuff and have a place to put it’.”
“Anyway, Smashing Machine, as you see, was an opportunity of a lifetime that did change my life,” Dwayne Johnson concluded.
Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper are sticking together while the actor faces backlash on social media, following scandalous allegations about him.
The supermodel, 30, and the American Hustle star, 51, stepped out in coordinating fall-themed outfits on Wednesday, February 25, in New York City.
Hadid sported a pair of grey trousers and a chocolate-brown coat, with her hair in a messy bun, and Cooper paired black trousers with a beige shacket and black puffer jacket.
The couple were seen leaving the screening of Frankenstein, with a Q&A Event featuring Jacob Elordi at the DGA Theater.
Hadid and Cooper have been together since 2023, and have already hard-launched their relationship on Instagram.
Last December, they attended a Broadway performance of Samuel Becket’s Waiting for Godot, and posed for a picture together behind-the-scenes.
While the duo has kept their relationship lowkey, it has been in the spotlight in recent times as fans were speculating about the next step for the couple.
Social media sleuths also called out Cooper for his name being in the Epstein files. Neither Hadid or Cooper have addressed the allegation.
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“Heated Rivalry” Season 2 is coming “as soon as humanly possible,” says creator Jacob Tierney
A second season of “Heated Rivalry” is in the works, with shooting expected to begin in August.
“We are writing it now,” show creator and director Jacob Tierney said on “CBS Mornings” Thursday. “We’re getting ready to start shooting this summer. And there will be more ‘Heated Rivalry’ on your TVs as — like, truly — as soon as humanly possible.”
The next season is expected in 2027, but a release date has not been announced yet.
“Like the best parts of this show, just enjoy the yearn,” executive producer Brendan Brady said about the wait for the second season.
The romance on HBO Max about hockey players Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov begins with a secret fling between two rivals and eventually turns into a yearslong journey of love, denial and self-discovery. It is based on the “Game Changers” book series by Rachel Reid and has been so popular it has averaged more than 10.5 million viewers per episode in the U.S. alone, according to Warner Bros. Discovery.
Tierney believes it resonates because it is “very romantic.”
“It has the hallmarks and trappings of a real classic romance, years of longing and yearning and trying to get together and do the right thing for each other and not being able to, and then eventually a happy ending,” he said.
“It is laser-focused on that love story. There’s not a lot of diversion from it. And I think that’s what the audience responds to, is kind of the intensity and the focus of the storytelling,” he said.
Editor’s note: “Heated Rivalry” Season 2 will begin shooting in August, but no official release date has been announced.
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