Earlier this morning, NBC revealed it had handed a straight-to-series order to Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Nahnatchka Khan for Young Rock, a single-camera comedy that tells the story of the…
, a single-camera comedy that tells the story of the wrestling star and actor’s colorful early years.press tour, Johnson recorded a video, in which he outlined some of the stories of his “wild” and “unpredictable” life that will feature in the series.
Johnson spent his high school years in Honolulu before moving to the country music capital, where he was arrested multiple times for fighting, theft and check fraud before the age of 17. Johnson then became a professional wrestler. While many know him as the star of the WWE, he got his start in Nashville, wrestling for $40 a match in used car dealerships and state fairs. “It was almost as if I had the childhood of Forrest Gump,” he joked.
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