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he verdict is in on the new Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson movie, The Smashing Machine, which does look pretty good to be fair. The key takeaway is this. Anyone who might have dismissed The Rock as simply a bald, grizzled, muscled-up fight sport veteran is going to have to eat their words.
It turns out The Rock is actually a really good actor. There is talk of a previously unseen ability to inhabit a character, to subsume his entire identity within a role. The role, in this case, of a bald, grizzled, muscled-up fight sport veteran.
What’s his secret! Who knew? And what next? A repressed English country house butler who is also, in his spare time, a bald, grizzled, muscled-up fight sport veteran? A Lytton Strachey biopic that recasts the arch Bloomsbury set dandy as simultaneously a bald, grizzled, muscled-up fight sport veteran?
