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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.
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Charlie Sheen updates on relationship with old pal Jon Cryer
Charlie Sheen has admitted he still hasn’t reached out to his Two and a Half Men co-star Jon Cryer despite repeatedly saying he intends to, and took a playful swipe at his old friend for being “a little grudgy” more than a decade after their famous falling-out.
Sheen was speaking at a For Your Consideration event for the Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen in Los Angeles on 22 April, where he was asked about reconnecting with Cryer, who also participated in the film.
“Every time this comes up, I say I’m going to [reach out to him] and I never do,” he told PEOPLE. “I don’t like to bother people. But I think Jon would be open to that. Jon’s a lovely man and a very talented guy.”
During the panel portion of the evening, Sheen couldn’t resist a gentle jab at Cryer’s absence.
“Jon’s not here tonight, is he? No, he’s a little grudgy like a decade and a half later. I’m like, ‘Dude, what the f—? I got over it. What are we doing, Jon?'”
He quickly softened, expressing genuine appreciation for everyone who agreed to participate.
“They could have easily said, ‘Go f— yourself. I’m not interested. I lived it. I don’t need to talk about it again.’ And I would have been, ‘OK, that’s fine.’ But they didn’t, and they stepped up.”
The documentary and Sheen’s memoir The Book of Sheen both landed in the same week in September 2025, with Sheen describing the experience of finally documenting his story as a relief.
“It’s documented, and I think told beautifully, visually and, hopefully, decently. There’s stuff in the book that’s not in the doc and vice versa, because there are things I couldn’t capture with the written word that [director Andrew Renzi] did visually, because some things you just have to see to feel it.”
He also recalled being uncertain about taking part at first, until Renzi laid out his case.
“He said, ‘Because you have a story that is unlike anyone who’s ever just in the business, but also outside of it.’ And then he went through listing stuff, and I’m like, alright, OK.”
Renzi put it plainly: “There’s only one Charlie Sheen… and there’s just not many people that would have had the life that he had that would want to talk about it, or are alive to talk about it.”
Sheen, who has been sober for eight years, said he would not have taken on either project while still in the grip of addiction.
“I think it always sort of had a happy ending attached to it, regardless of where the story went.”
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Here’s real update on POTUS’s health
In a recent White House meeting, U.S. President Trump momentarily dozed off .
The incident sparked speculations about the 79-year-old president’s health, with a prominent medical expert indicating the symptoms may point to sleep apnea.
This video, which was recorded at the affordability event at the Oval Office on Thursday, displays Trump sitting with his eyes shut, jaw hanging loose, and head slumped down. Even though there have been no medical warnings made by the White House, it has generated a lot of discussions on social media.
A medical expert, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor of Medicine and Surgery linked with CNN, weighed in on the matters.
Reiner wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter): “When a patient tells me that they can’t stay awake in meetings, we do formal sleep testing to look for sleep apnea.”
“The president continues to struggle with daytime somnolence. This is a common problem, and there are things that can be done to improve these symptoms,” he added.
In medical terms, sleep apnea is a condition where the patient suffers from a pattern of interruptions in breathing while sleeping.
The White House does not acknowledge any such medical condition, and President Trump has not yet had an officially scheduled annual physical examination in 2026, although he has been known to undergo semiannual physical exams. It has been observed that President Trump, who is turning 80 in June, holds fewer public meetings than he did in his first presidential term.
Concerning the POTUS ‘health, Congressman Ted Lieu said: “There’s something mentally wrong with the President of the United States. There is also something physically wrong… he can’t stay awake at public events with the cameras rolling.”
However, White House has maintained the stance of Trump’s good health. Until now, no official medical evaluation has been released.
Given these rising concerns, another video of Trump is circulating where he can be seen falling asleep and violently hitting his head on the desk. However, that specific video is fake and AI-generated.
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