Dwayne Johnson Explains Why Emily Blunt Is One of the Greatest Actors of All Time

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In this video, Dwayne Johnson heaps praise on his 'The Smashing Machine' co-star Emily Blunt, explaining the emotional moment on set where he realized her true power as a performer. Watch as "The Rock" details why he believes Blunt is one of the greatest actors of our generation and how she physically and emotionally grounded him during filming.

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00:00Emily and I were talking we've talked about this idea hey we're gonna have to

00:04go elsewhere and afterwards you don't know where you go you just know you went

00:08elsewhere and it kind of messes you up a little bit you know because you leave

00:12parts of your soul on that set I was holding her with all of my might and it

00:17was in that moment and then afterwards that I realized this is what makes her

00:24such a force I'm so much larger than Emily but and I am barely keeping my

00:32hands together and that's how powerful she is but it's not it's not just

00:35physical it's just from in here and to hold someone to restrain them and in my

00:42arms is the last place they want to be and they don't not only do not want to

00:48be in my arms but they don't even want to be on earth anymore that's there was a

00:53whole other of the emotional conceit that I had not felt and but in that

00:57moment I realized this this is why she is one of the greatest actors of our time

01:03ever that because now now we know like I could bench you now now we know it this

01:11is this is the British way where she comes in to undercut I'm I'm giving a

01:16compliment comes in

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