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 aro
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Randall looked around for his cameraperson, urging him to tighten for the reveal, then motioned for The Rock to continue. We moved here to Bethlehem from Nashville cause my dad wasn t wrestling for Vince McMahon anymore, Dwayne went on, referring to his father Soul Man Rocky Johnson (Joseph Lee Anderson).
Surreal series: The 48-year-old actor in the surreal series examined his teen years during a 2032 interview set at his Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, high school as he ran for US President Money wasn t coming in the way it used to, so he and my mom opened up a cleaning business. I had a side job slinging pizza, but the only thing I wanted to do was chase girls. And to get their attention, I thought I had to look rich, hence all the stealing, he added.
Dwayne The Rock Johnson as a high school student
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When Dwayne Johnson made his WWE wrestling debut on November 17, 1996 – in Madison Square Garden, no less (truly hallowed ground in the wrasslin’ business) – he was not yet ‘The Rock’ but ‘Rocky Maivia’, a dorkish, insufferable do-gooder who had been instructed by wrestling bosses to constantly smile, no matter what.
The 24-year-old sported shiny white boots, makeshift Polynesian garb, and a frizz of jehri curled hair (Johnson later compared the hairdo to a “Chia pet” – one of those Seventies-style terracotta animals which sprouts plants). Despite the look, the crowd of 18,647 cheered him along as he won his rookie match. But not for long.
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