« My wet dream is to play a Shakespearean play , although I don't delude myself into thinking I'm the first name the studios would think of. It's no coincidence that the epigraph to my autobiography was taken from Twelfth Night : “Do not be intimidated by greatness. Some are born great, some become great, while others have greatness forced upon them,” confesses that talking mountain of muscles (1.96 m and 115 kg), nicknamed The Rock , 53 years old.
Since he stopped beating up his colleagues in a wrestling
ring twenty years ago , limiting himself to doing it only on film sets, he
prefers to be called as it says on his business card as CEO of the production company Seven Bucks Companies , that is, Dwayne Johnson .
He is the king of franchises , and the highest paid actor in Hollywood , invited for the
first time with great fanfare to Venice, as the star of one of the most
anticipated films in competition, The Smashing Machine.
It is the biopic of Mark Kerr , world champion of MMA , mixed martial arts, from 1997 to 2009 , but it is not a film celebrating roses and flowers, but rather a drama that also explores the private life of a champion that the public perceives as an unbeatable warrior , and does not know that instead he has the same fears and weaknesses.
Johnson had not only met him , but then he had seen The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr , a raw HBO documentary . And he told director Benny Safdie , one of the Safdie brothers, about him, whose film Uncut Gems he had greatly appreciated .
Then Covid arrived and four years passed, useful for
overcoming her fears ("but will I be able to sustain a part like
that?") and for finding the support of a friend, Emily Blunt , with whom she had paired up in the Jungle Cruise
franchise , and now plays Dawn Staple , Kerr's wife.
This is Johnson's
dramatic debut , and for the first time we even see him with hair .
Paradoxically, it's also a debut for Benny Safdie , who in the meantime has
"broken up" and is editing, writing, and directing alone .
Ditto for Josh Safdie , who instead wrote and directed Marty
Supreme himself , but about a different sport: ping pong . Starring: Timothée
Chalamet and Gwyneth Paltrow .
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