Dwayne Johnson Was ‘So Sick’ While Making First Film, “The Mummy Returns”, but It Helped Him Reach an Epiphany About His Life USEnglish Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson opened up about making the leap to movies with 2001's The Mummy Returns He said he was sick while making the film, but still fell in love with acting for films In the 1990s, Dwayne Johnson became a wrestling sensation when he took on the persona of The Rock, but he also found a new passion soon after: acting. The Rock, 53, opened up about how he caught the acting bug in The Hollywood Reporter’s Actors Roundtable, published online on Jan. 2. Interviewer Scott Feinberg asked him, “Dwayne, nobody before you had made the jump from pro wrestling to A-list movie stardom. Was a pivot to acting always planned?” “I think it was planned by something more powerful than me, but also, I wanted to grow and to challenge myself, and transitioning into Hollywood was something that I definitely wanted,” The Smashing Machine star said.
Published: January 2, 2026 6:52 pm
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