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.
Credit.Photo illustration by Mike McQuade
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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Around that same time, Johnson turned to petty crime. In fact, by the time he was 17 years old, Johnson had been arrested eight or nine times . Thirteen is when I started to veer off the tracks, he recently told I started getting arrested for fighting, theft, all kinds of stupid [stuff] that I shouldn’t have been doing, he added. We would target the money, we would target the high-end clothes and we would target the jewellery – turn around and sell it.
Dwayne Johnson explains why he never finishes a workout early in an Instagram post, illustrating his point with a true story depicted in the show 'Young Rock'.
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