Could âYoung Rockâ Be Dwayne Johnsonâs âApprenticeâ?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/magazine/young-rock-president.html
Could âYoung Rockâ Be Dwayne Johnsonâs âApprenticeâ?
A wrestlerâs job is to sell an absurd fiction, and make it reality â maybe itâs not so different from politics.
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By Jeremy Gordon
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The eighth episode of âYoung Rockâ finds the showâs protagonist, a 15-year-old Dwayne Johnson, in a classic sitcom predicament. He has pretended to be rich to impress a classmate named Karen, who has the blond hair and movie-grade makeup that teenage boys dream of. Now she is coming over for dinner and expecting to see a palace; in reality, Young Rock is squeezed into a small apartment with his parents, who struggle to pay the rent. The show, which just finished its first season on NBC, follows the actorâs childhood growing up around the professional wrestling business, back when his father, Rocky Johnson, was a star. In a bind, Young Rock turns to his father for the sort of advice only he can provide.