Dwayne Johnson says ‘best friend’ Emily Blunt taught him ‘vulnerability’
Dwayne Johnson sat down for an interview where he opened up about his work with costar Emily Blunt
Dwayne Johnson sat down for an interview where he opened up about his work with The Smashing Machine costar, Emily Blunt.
About portraying Mark Kerr and how she helped him, he told Vanity Fair, “If Emily and I weren’t best friends, I don’t know that we could’ve gone to the places we went to. That closeness created the trust, which then allowed for the vulnerability, which then allowed for [us to] go anywhere.”
About his performance, Blunt remarked, “It seemed to be an effortless immersion — like a full disappearance, spooky. From day one, he was elsewhere.”
She further observed, “He has absorbed and borne witness to so much of what Mark has experienced that it was such a beautiful thing to watch this person let go of having to be an image, of having to be The Rock, and crack himself in half for this role."
Summarizing Johnson’s career, she said he “has been pigeonholed into the image of the big hero who’s got all the answers and he’s going to fix everything and he’s invincible.”
The actress commented, “I think until this moment, maybe [Dwayne] thought that was the only lane that people wanted to see him in.”
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