In show business, they don't come much bigger than Dwayne Johnson. He's the highest paid actor in the world, according to Forbes, and his worldwide movie totals are counted in the billions.
In show business , they don't come much bigger than Dwayne Johnson. He's the highest paid actor in the world, according to Forbes, and his worldwide movie totals are counted in the billions. And now, in a new film opening this month, Johnson wants to be the next big superhero.Correspondent Tracy Smith asked Johnson,"Do you consider him a villain?"
An only child, Johnson had the humblest of beginnings: his dad, Rocky Johnson, was a pro wrestler back in the days when road trips were long and money was tight."We were nomads," he said."We had that life up until I was 16 years old. We lived on the road. And I spent a lot of my time growing up in the back seat of a car."
On his autobiographical sit-com"Young Rock," Johnson recounts how he started wrestling at WMC-TV in Memphis under the name"Flex Kavana," and how a friend named"Downtown Bruno" gave the broke future superstar a place to stay in his rundown trailer. Correspondent Tracy Smith with Dwayne Johnson and his old friend, Bruno Lauer, who'd helped out the struggling young wrestler at the start of his career, in Walls, Miss. Talk about amazing: Johnson went on to be a huge success in the wrestling world as"The Rock," and in 2001 he made the jump to film. After some early success, Hollywood tried to mold him into a"typical" leading man."They said, 'Okay, great.
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