How The Smashing Machine changed Dwayne Johnson's life

Dwayne Johnson describes his transformation process for ‘The Smashing Machine,' and how the role impacted his life.

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00:00You know, that idea of Dwayne Johnson disappearing into any role,

00:03you kind of think, oh, how can you transform?

00:06But you do.

00:07And what, what, and it's not just the physical thing,

00:10because it's obviously this hair, but other things went on.

00:13It was about 22 prosthetics.

00:15We had Kazuhiroz, our Oscar-winning prosthetic artist,

00:19and he helped me transform.

00:20There was also a vocal transformation, too.

00:22But the idea, I think, of transforming, for me,

00:26was something that, you know, I didn't know that I was,

00:30I didn't know that that was for me.

00:32And I wanted to do that, because a lot of times

00:34in the movies that I've made in the past,

00:36the bigger movies, they're big and they're fun,

00:37and I've liked them from Jumanji to Moana.

00:41And I'll go back to those,

00:43but there was something about this opportunity

00:45where there was a little, there was a voice behind my ribcage

00:48that was just telling me, right?

00:50So, like, it's like, and I'd shared this with Emily for years,

00:54like, it's just, it's gnawing at my gut to do more

00:58and challenge myself and grow and do something

01:01where I'm not chasing box office, but I'm doing it for me.

01:05Yeah.

01:05And it wound up being the most greatest,

01:08most gratifying thing, and I've said this before,

01:11and I mean it, Smash Machine changed my life.