Dwayne Johnson: He decreases for this weird role

Dwayne Johnson (53) presented himself strikingly narrow at Venice’s film festival. At least for his standards. And compared to his role in the celebrated film “The Smashing Machine”, which he presented there. For his part as a MMA fighter, he had grown 14 kilos of muscle mass. They have now disappeared.

Now Dwayne Johnson has revealed how the weight loss came about. He decreases for a new role. He told this in an interview as part of the Toronto Film Festival.

The film is “Lizard Music”, the film adaptation of the youth novel of the same name by Daniel Pinkwater (83) from 1976. According to his own statement, Dwayne Johnson plays a “quirky, eccentric seventy -year -old” called Chicken. He bears the name because he is friends with a 70-year-old chicken named Claudia.

“I am very happy that hopefully I can go through a transformation again, as I did in ‘Smashing Machine’,” said Johnson in Toronto. In order to achieve the right weight for the role, he “has a long way to go,” the ex-wrestler admitted. But he already knows how he wants to get to the goal: “Eat less chicken.”

Benny Safdie (39) is directed by “Lizard Music”. He has just led Dwayne Johnson to the best reviews of his career in “The Smashing Machine”. Safdie received the directing price in Venice. “Benny suggested the idea,” said “The Rock”. After the pitch, he immediately agreed: “I’m your chicken man.”