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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson details the decision-making process behind his look for the live-action 'Moana,' explaining why a 30-40 pound body suit was necessary to authentically capture Maui's physique.
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00:00we decided to go that route to make sure that it was uh authentic you know we kept the integrity
00:07of the body that was all but that suit was like a 30 40 pound suit it was and then
00:11also too i think
00:12with the tattoos what we also realized the tattoos come alive and how would that work visual effects
00:19wise with our amazing go bill uh westoff yeah thank you um could that could we apply that on
00:26my real body yeah and then it all came back like hey let's build this suit because we were going
00:32through different iterations and what made sense in terms of time what made sense in terms of visual
00:37quality like what's the thing and the truth is the truth is i came right off of smashing machine
00:43right into live action moana and we knew we had a date we were trying to make which was july
00:5010th
00:502026 um and so what is the best our best approach and our best path and my body in smashing
01:00machine
01:01we realized and what we knew going in months going in i was like guys this it's not maui's body
01:08like this body this is like no maui is he has that body you know didn't know so

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