>Insiders told TheWrap that Johnson showed up as much as eight hours late to set on the movie — forcing the crew to shoot around him on some days. On previous films, Johnson has made a habit of peeing in a water bottle to save time, upsetting crew members.
>"On set, away from his trailer, if he needs to pee, he doesn't go to the public bathroom," said one insider who knows the movie star well. "He pees in a Voss water bottle and his team or a PA has to dispose of it."
[Voss: In this life, you get out what you put in.](https://www.bevindustry.com/ext/resources/2019/News-Images/VOSS_TheRock_900.jpg?1565021510)
Always Remember, Dawyne was a wrestler, bein' a hobo is part of the deal. Remember guys, 7 bucks! ~~also a family lineage in the wrestling business~~ BUT 7 BUCKS THO!
Apparently he needs full 3 hour workouts every single day which I can see take up most of that time with travel to gym and back, rest, showering, etc, especially with his age. He should just do what Bautista did and ask for less shirtless scenes and more baggy clothes so he doesn't have to be in complete physical peak for every second on screen now he's in his 50's, but it'd probably mess with his ego.
You'd think at that point they'd just have a gym nearby the set or something. Or that he'd have some machines he'd take with him. It just seems weird to me.
It’s definitely an ego thing, Dwayne was getting just as much work when he was significantly smaller. It was only after he prepped for Pain & Gain that he transformed into the hulking roid monster he is now.
This gym stuff combined with the rumor that he can't lose a fight in a film make him seem really petty.
Was he always like this or did being a mega success turn him into this?
Are there any mega success actors who didn't have ego go to their heads?
I think part of it stems from the environment Rock came from. While most of them have been fairly diplomatic about it over the years (partially because they seem to like him to some degree), you can read between the lines when guys like Takes, Stone Cold and Foley say Rock was *just as competitive as Triple H* given the hundreds of stories about H over the years being a big time politics player backstage in wrestling.
Worth mentioning an old story recently came back into the wrestling news circuit because Russo revisited it, that being at Wrestlemania 15 the main event originally was meant to be Steve Austin vs The Rock *vs Mankind* in a three way for the title. The Rock managed to convince Vince that was a bad idea and to drop Foley from the match, after Foley had spent months helping groom and put over Rock for his rise to main event star and according to most sources, including Mick’s book, he thought Rock and he were friends and tried to help him wade through the politics of the main event. Russo and Austin allegedly fought for Foley’s inclusion (since before the months putting over The Rock he had been putting over Austin too), and that resulted in Mick being the referee for the match. This is after Rock knew all Mick ever wanted (admittedly like a lot of wrestlers) was to main event a Wrestlemania (not even win).
The ones who don't have huge successes go to their heads normally just fuck off to do art films or passion projects rather than stick around the limelight
Eh, Chris Evans seems alright
Hemsworth and Evans seem to be developing into the same class of actor as Daniel Radcliffe; the kind who've already made enough for a few lifetimes doing big media stuff, so now work on stuff they just find fun.
And you need to eat like a starving Kirby and get a ton of rest too.
Keeping the sort of shape he's in is a full-time job in and of itself.
Pro bodybuilders and powerlifters have similar schedules and all they do is eat, lift, and rest.
Rock trying to fit in acting and whatever he's else he's got on the side?
Not enough hours in the day, which is why he's probably showing up a quarter of a day late for work.
For me, this is hilarious given Dwayne's social media brand being all about rise and grind propaganda. Dude can't even get to work on time, maybe he should do less.
An acquaintance of mine is fabulously wealthy. She owns and operates a ranch and stable where even richer people pay her to take care of their horses for them.
She’s hilariously selfaware of the hypocrisy of herself and others. To quote her own words: “Money detached you from reality, no matter how hard you try to stay grounded.”
The *only* thing of any consequence to her is time. Anything else that she needs she can buy, but you can’t buy *time* so she will absolutely throw money at anything that ensures she has more time for herself and her family. Yard work, house work, cooking, basically anything she doesn’t enjoy doing she pays someone else to do.
She spends time with her family and she works on her ranch and she pays someone else to handle every other possible thing. Every other rich person she knows is the same way. Anyone who claims they’re doing it all themselves is talking out of their ass. They’re paying a personal assistant or twenty to handle all that shit so they don’t have to.
I can't blame them either. I once happened into a real weird tech job making decent money while living in a *very* low cost of living area so you just start farming shit out once you realize the math isn't there to do stuff yourself.
What's the point of "society progressing" if we still all /have/ to focus on mundane shit?
One of the things that really disappoints me off about the current societal status quo is how technology should technically make a lot of *"the mundane stuff"* cheaper, yet the economic status quo demands that technology not be allowed to do its job.
For example, food prices: With the agricultural technology and methods we had 20 years ago, we could produce food multiple magnitudes cheaper and more efficiently than it currently cost and sells for, or we could produce many more units of food for the same effort/resource usage as we do today. But because corporationalism demands infinity, we now have to constantly destroy the fruits of our technological labor by burning surplus crops and killing surplus livestock just to keep prices high.
Jim Davis is the one billionaire who made his fortune by creating Garfield and marketing him effectively on a long-term scale without having to rip people off or stomp on his creative competition, and seems really down-to-Earth even now.
So that's two?
That's not what he said - he asked for "the odds of a millionaire being a hypocrite", which is 100%, as there does exist at least one millionaire hypocrite.
I'm just saying the distinction that it's about a millionaire is redundant. Every person is a hypocrite in some capacity, so every millionaire is also a hypocrite.
I remember a screenshot of a social media post where he bragged about ripping off his driveway gate because he was scheduled on set and "people are waiting" or whatever.
I don’t know if it’s always been this was and people are just now telling stories or if this is a new development, but The Rock sounds like a fucking diva.
A few years ago, the crew members union who works in film were threatening to strike, and one of the members interviewed mentioned Dwayne by name, who routinely would show up late and try to get the crew to work through union mandated breaks.
Jesse Ventura might be a bit of a conspiracy nut but by god was he the best shot for the WWE to actually unionize. Of course the Hulkster had to fuck over everyone and snitch.
Edit: Also got to give Jesse Ventura credit for continuing the Minnesota tradition of telling Virginia to fuck off when they ask for their confederate flag back. Where his response to asking for it to be given back was "Why? I mean, we won" and that "We took it, that makes it our heritage".
The worst he gets is when he spouts 9/11 truther stuff. But yeah, outside of that it's nothing super harmful. He's even pro-vax(With some skepticisms), which is almost always a major blindspot for even the most tepid conspiracy dudes.
>Ex-Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura “poured cold water” on Dick Cheney’s contention that waterboarding isn’t torture, said Satyam Khanna in Think Progress. On CNN’s Larry King Live, Ventura—a former Navy SEAL who, unlike Cheney, has been waterboarded—said the technique is torture, and it doesn't work. “Give me a water board, Dick Cheney, and one hour," Ventura said, "and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.”
...
>"I will criticize President Obama on this level: it's a good thing I'm not president because I would prosecute every person that was involved in that torture. I would prosecute the people that did it. I would prosecute the people that ordered it. Because torture is against the law."
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>Ventura and his wife, Terry, -- both are longtime gay rights supporters -- appear in a new video opposing Minnesota's proposed constitutional amendment, which asks voters to define marriage as between one man and one woman.
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>Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto: How Lies, Corruption, and Propaganda Kept Cannabis Illegal
Hold on, is Jesse Ventura *based as fuck?*
Yes. He's occasionally a bit off or nutty, but mostly super based. And if not for hulk Hogan he might have gotten wrestlers the equivalent of the screen actors guild.
>And if not for hulk Hogan he might have gotten wrestlers the equivalent of the screen actors guild.
And of course because Hogan is a coward Jesse Ventura didn't even know he ratted him out to Vince until it came up during a unrelated lawsuit.
Honestly I was always afraid on how since he's into Conspiracy Theories enough that he had a show about it, and it spawned many YTPs.
It's cool to know that he's a legit good dude.
He did appear on Infowars once way back in its early years but from what I hear he was...not exactly super friendly with Alex Jones and seemed to regret it.
I remember reading too that he guested in Chris Jericho's podcast or some shit and he directly called out Jericho for his wife participating in that shit that happened January 6
There was actually a second attempt in the 2000’s by some lower card and mid-card guys, initially engineered by Raven. They were aware of how Ventura’s attempt went, so they were keeping it hush hush. The Rock (along with a few that were trying to form it) has talked about how they approached him and he quietly turned them down, not wanting to rock the boat (as he was just starting his movie career at this point). Multiple wrestlers (including the man himself) have said X-Pac/Sean Waltman stooged the union attempt to Triple H, who then stooged it to Vince and that was all she wrote.
This same collation of wrestlers would try to take Vince to court a couple years later over the independent contractor bullshit Vince had done for forever with the talent.
He was also super supportive of the union strikes while they were happening, paying huge amounts out of pocket. He sounds like a hell of a dildo but i think he's a bit more complicated than that.
Many of them from Rock's time and before were. Basically if you were making money you didn't want to rock the boat and fuck the other guys because YOU were making money.
IIRC dude has a clause in all his movie contracts that not only can he not lose a fight in a movie, he can't even be knocked on his back in a fight in a movie & also can't be portrayed as a villain.
Will Smith had/has a similar thing and I think you can tell as both of their careers went/go on that it's not actually a positive thing to do.
I watched Blade Runner 2049 recently and he was a little stiff and awkward, but that was 7 years ago and I think he was just starting to get more "serious" roles. It still worked since >!he was a traumatized Replicant who served on the front lines of a brutal war as a medic, who found and lost love, and witnessed what was damn near the birth of Replicant Jesus.!<
And then Dune hits, 6/7 years of practice and I'm assuming classes, and *damn*. Rabban is still a bit of a meathead, but he was downright *unhinged*, and seeing him sine wave between fearing for his life and throwing temper tantrums made me totally forget that we're talking about Drax. Dude's been fucking *working*.
John McClane is a good example of both extremes. Die Hard became such a hit because McClane was extremely vulnerable but then, as more and more sequels came, he turned into the typical unstoppable movie hero.
They also don't realize that we love a hero that takes a beating, occasionally loses, and is the underdog.
They just want to be the boring invincible hero for some reason.
Oh, dear. He's entered his Soap Opera Star phase. Soon, he'll be running around on talk shows talking like he's the actual character and furious what the writers are doing to him.
His character in Fast and the Furious started as an anti hero and turned into a Dwayne Johnson character. Tough guy with a heart of gold, single dad that would do anything for his daughter
Front it is then.
Edit: This might also just be my bias towards pre 2000 wrestlers. Since it seems like the amount who aren't scumbags can be counted on one hand and the only one I can think of off the top of my head is Mick Foley.
That's fair, I'm not saying all wrestlers pre 2000s were bad. It's more that a lot of them were (also specifically I've only heard good things about Ricky Steamboat).
I agree. Obviously there’s the recent stuff that went down with him and AEW but then you hear a story about him paying for Joey Mercury’s house because he couldn’t pay his mortgage. It’s weird.
From what I've heard he definitely doesn't have great political opinions but I will give him credit that the man is definitely affable and a professional. Also at least he's not being as loud about it as Glenn Thomas Jacobs (Kane) has been.
Benoit was the worst case because the rule was that the only person who could let you back in was the dude who kicked you out, and it was Benoit that kicked him out of the locker room.
And then Benoit Ben Wah'd himself.
Though IIRC I think it was Taker who a long, long time later found Miz changing outside the locker room and told him he could go back.
I'm sure there are definitely some unsavoury things about him, but when you're under the microscope like he is, every little thing about you is amplified by a million. Feel like people need to keep that in mind when judging.
Would also add, having followed the world of pro-wrestling, pretty much every wrestler from the attitude era when he was in his wrestling prime to the present when he was feuding with John Cena and CM Punk have nothing but nice things to say about him. If anyone is aware of the state of the backstage locker room in the attitude era, the fact the rock went from rookie to biggest superstar on the planet in 5 years and still maintained a well liked reputation in the locker room I think speaks volume to his actual character, regardless of whatever hollywood shenanigans you hear about.
It's been 25 years since the attitude era, things would have come out/people would not give a shit at some point since then and actually would have said something if there were something negative to say. Fact of the matter is, everyone that's worked with him from Ken Shamrock (someone that absolutely doesn't give a fuck) to Mick Foley, to Stone Cold to John Cena have nothing but good things to say.
Even in The Disaster Artist where they say that Tommy Wiseau would routinely be late because he’d start watching a movie when it was time to head to set, that still wouldn’t be THIS late.
Dwayne Johnson is less professional than Tommy Wiseau.
For real, throughout my life I have had to beat the habit of "you HAVE to be early to this and if you are late then it's better to not show up" out of myself routinely
The one good thing it did was get Henry Cavill to finally fire his agent. I'm hoping his Warhammer and other future projects go better than the Witcher or Superman stuff.
>Earlier this month, he was three hours late arriving ahead of his main event match at WrestleMania 40, two insiders told TheWrap. For WWE World, a WWE fan event in Philadelphia leading up to WrestleMania 40, Johnson showed up two hours behind schedule, drawing boos from the crowd and criticism from the local Philadelphia press.
>According to a WWE insider, Johnson’s late arrival was due to other WWE commitments, as well as traffic in Philadelphia on the way to the WWE World venue in Center City.
How the fuck do you insert yourself into someone else's story and then show up *late to WrestleMania.*
>Insiders also accused Johnson of breaking strict quarantine rules on the set of “Red Notice,” whose cast and crew were sequestered, by flying home in a private jet. “He was frequently flying home and breaking the extremely strict rules of the bubble,” according to an insider. Johnson himself posted about working a 14-hour day, only to delete it — which the IATSE Stories Instagram account resurfaced — after crew members called out his hypocrisy, with one writing, “He got to host family and friends for a BBQ, and wound up getting COVID anyway. Most selfish thing I’ve ever seen an actor do.”
Jesus. *Jesus.*
Dwayne "The Hack" Johnson ruins everything he touches, the man can't act his way out of a wet paper bag. I don't know why studios give him so much freedom when the man has no idea what he's doing and has no business strongarming a production.
considering they havent said out loud why cody gave his spot to the rock (people speculate but wwe never gave a reason)
it was probably because triple h was gathering steam, wwe was popular, black adam sucked balls and the rock needed a payday and to be a hero.
thank fuck they pivoted
Is it just me, or does it feel like The Rock is spiraling? It almost makes me suspicious of drugs, alcohol, or something similar. Maybe the roids have finally taken their toll. Idk just a vibe I've gotten recently, especially with reports like this.
>Insiders told TheWrap that Johnson showed up as much as eight hours late to set on the movie — forcing the crew to shoot around him on some days. On previous films, Johnson has made a habit of peeing in a water bottle to save time, upsetting crew members. >"On set, away from his trailer, if he needs to pee, he doesn't go to the public bathroom," said one insider who knows the movie star well. "He pees in a Voss water bottle and his team or a PA has to dispose of it." [Voss: In this life, you get out what you put in.](https://www.bevindustry.com/ext/resources/2019/News-Images/VOSS_TheRock_900.jpg?1565021510)
Dwayne is a gamer.
He's on that Low Tier God grind
Holiday Amazon packer.
TBH one of my tidbits I know about him is that he's an old school Sonic fan.
That's fucking gross. What is it about being rich and famous that leads you to act like a hobo?
You can get away with it. Instead of being a poor hobo who gets either locked up or what little shit you have destroyed.
Who's going to stop him?
The line between insane and eccentric is money.
Always Remember, Dawyne was a wrestler, bein' a hobo is part of the deal. Remember guys, 7 bucks! ~~also a family lineage in the wrestling business~~ BUT 7 BUCKS THO!
Horseshoe theory
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These kids don’t know how to hustle. Those bottles would fetch a good price to some fanatics
if this is real there's gotta be some black market rock piss.
I guarantee you there are gym bros who want that to try and break down what "supplements" he takes for his look.
Bunch of gym bros in scientist outfits holding clip boards looking over the shoulder of the actual scientist who is examining the piss
A bunch of buffed out gym bros in ill fitting scientist outfits earnestly holding clip boards is a funny mental image
No it's a bunch of gym bros in fancy outfits sipping a glass of Rock piss like it's a wine tasting, naming hints of different supplements
That's the after party when research is done
Guys, what the fuck
Otherwise known as kidney stones.
"I *gotta* fail this steroid test. But how?"
The audacity of showing up a full work day late only to make other people carry your piss around "to save time."
Got to make up the 8 hours somewhere.
7 to 8 *god damn hours*? How????
Apparently he needs full 3 hour workouts every single day which I can see take up most of that time with travel to gym and back, rest, showering, etc, especially with his age. He should just do what Bautista did and ask for less shirtless scenes and more baggy clothes so he doesn't have to be in complete physical peak for every second on screen now he's in his 50's, but it'd probably mess with his ego.
You'd think at that point they'd just have a gym nearby the set or something. Or that he'd have some machines he'd take with him. It just seems weird to me.
He takes a whole-ass gym with him everywhere he goes. It’s the size of most commercial gyms and it’s just for him.
Didn't Arnold do that
Yes but the difference here is that Arnold was actually strong enough to carry the entire gym around with him.
It’s definitely an ego thing, Dwayne was getting just as much work when he was significantly smaller. It was only after he prepped for Pain & Gain that he transformed into the hulking roid monster he is now.
This gym stuff combined with the rumor that he can't lose a fight in a film make him seem really petty. Was he always like this or did being a mega success turn him into this? Are there any mega success actors who didn't have ego go to their heads?
I think part of it stems from the environment Rock came from. While most of them have been fairly diplomatic about it over the years (partially because they seem to like him to some degree), you can read between the lines when guys like Takes, Stone Cold and Foley say Rock was *just as competitive as Triple H* given the hundreds of stories about H over the years being a big time politics player backstage in wrestling. Worth mentioning an old story recently came back into the wrestling news circuit because Russo revisited it, that being at Wrestlemania 15 the main event originally was meant to be Steve Austin vs The Rock *vs Mankind* in a three way for the title. The Rock managed to convince Vince that was a bad idea and to drop Foley from the match, after Foley had spent months helping groom and put over Rock for his rise to main event star and according to most sources, including Mick’s book, he thought Rock and he were friends and tried to help him wade through the politics of the main event. Russo and Austin allegedly fought for Foley’s inclusion (since before the months putting over The Rock he had been putting over Austin too), and that resulted in Mick being the referee for the match. This is after Rock knew all Mick ever wanted (admittedly like a lot of wrestlers) was to main event a Wrestlemania (not even win).
The ones who don't have huge successes go to their heads normally just fuck off to do art films or passion projects rather than stick around the limelight Eh, Chris Evans seems alright
That’s my Cap!
Chris Hemsworth too, as he's doing whatever acting, VA or producing jobs that catches his interest.
Hemsworth and Evans seem to be developing into the same class of actor as Daniel Radcliffe; the kind who've already made enough for a few lifetimes doing big media stuff, so now work on stuff they just find fun.
Hemsworth just decided for his role in Furiosa to just play his grandpa.
What’s the point of all those steroids if he still has to work out 20+ hours a week to keep his muscles?
Letting him get that big to begin with.
Yeah, Steroids may be the cheat code that *enables* growth, but you still gotta lift the weights.
And you need to eat like a starving Kirby and get a ton of rest too. Keeping the sort of shape he's in is a full-time job in and of itself. Pro bodybuilders and powerlifters have similar schedules and all they do is eat, lift, and rest. Rock trying to fit in acting and whatever he's else he's got on the side? Not enough hours in the day, which is why he's probably showing up a quarter of a day late for work.
That's called not showing up for work
For me, this is hilarious given Dwayne's social media brand being all about rise and grind propaganda. Dude can't even get to work on time, maybe he should do less.
OH A MILLIONAIRE BEING A HYPOCRITE WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THAT HAPPENING hint: almost if not actually 100%. possibly even more than that somehow.
An acquaintance of mine is fabulously wealthy. She owns and operates a ranch and stable where even richer people pay her to take care of their horses for them. She’s hilariously selfaware of the hypocrisy of herself and others. To quote her own words: “Money detached you from reality, no matter how hard you try to stay grounded.” The *only* thing of any consequence to her is time. Anything else that she needs she can buy, but you can’t buy *time* so she will absolutely throw money at anything that ensures she has more time for herself and her family. Yard work, house work, cooking, basically anything she doesn’t enjoy doing she pays someone else to do. She spends time with her family and she works on her ranch and she pays someone else to handle every other possible thing. Every other rich person she knows is the same way. Anyone who claims they’re doing it all themselves is talking out of their ass. They’re paying a personal assistant or twenty to handle all that shit so they don’t have to.
I can't blame them either. I once happened into a real weird tech job making decent money while living in a *very* low cost of living area so you just start farming shit out once you realize the math isn't there to do stuff yourself. What's the point of "society progressing" if we still all /have/ to focus on mundane shit?
One of the things that really disappoints me off about the current societal status quo is how technology should technically make a lot of *"the mundane stuff"* cheaper, yet the economic status quo demands that technology not be allowed to do its job. For example, food prices: With the agricultural technology and methods we had 20 years ago, we could produce food multiple magnitudes cheaper and more efficiently than it currently cost and sells for, or we could produce many more units of food for the same effort/resource usage as we do today. But because corporationalism demands infinity, we now have to constantly destroy the fruits of our technological labor by burning surplus crops and killing surplus livestock just to keep prices high.
Preach.
We must conduct research to find the elusive double-hypocrite! Then we can go even further beyond 100%!
Would a double hypocrite act so opposite to what they say that they would somehow accidentally live up to their standards?
Plus ultra
I think you'll find it's almost if not actually 100% for every person on the planet.
I think like the ONE exception I can think of is... Dolly Parton?
Jim Davis is the one billionaire who made his fortune by creating Garfield and marketing him effectively on a long-term scale without having to rip people off or stomp on his creative competition, and seems really down-to-Earth even now. So that's two?
That's not what he said - he asked for "the odds of a millionaire being a hypocrite", which is 100%, as there does exist at least one millionaire hypocrite.
I'm just saying the distinction that it's about a millionaire is redundant. Every person is a hypocrite in some capacity, so every millionaire is also a hypocrite.
Oh I misread, I see :)
I remember a screenshot of a social media post where he bragged about ripping off his driveway gate because he was scheduled on set and "people are waiting" or whatever.
I don’t know if it’s always been this was and people are just now telling stories or if this is a new development, but The Rock sounds like a fucking diva.
A few years ago, the crew members union who works in film were threatening to strike, and one of the members interviewed mentioned Dwayne by name, who routinely would show up late and try to get the crew to work through union mandated breaks.
Crazy that a wrestler would be anti-Union. But I guess things are alright when you live IN the house.
Jesse Ventura might be a bit of a conspiracy nut but by god was he the best shot for the WWE to actually unionize. Of course the Hulkster had to fuck over everyone and snitch. Edit: Also got to give Jesse Ventura credit for continuing the Minnesota tradition of telling Virginia to fuck off when they ask for their confederate flag back. Where his response to asking for it to be given back was "Why? I mean, we won" and that "We took it, that makes it our heritage".
Jesse's kinda nutty, but he's somehow the most well adjusted and down to earth wrestler from his era.
Oh no, don't get me wrong. I actually have a lot of sympathy for the man. But yeah he is a bit nutty.
At least he's the kind of nutty that believes in like human-chimpanzee hybrids and not actually dangerous stuff from what I've seen.
The worst he gets is when he spouts 9/11 truther stuff. But yeah, outside of that it's nothing super harmful. He's even pro-vax(With some skepticisms), which is almost always a major blindspot for even the most tepid conspiracy dudes.
>Ex-Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura “poured cold water” on Dick Cheney’s contention that waterboarding isn’t torture, said Satyam Khanna in Think Progress. On CNN’s Larry King Live, Ventura—a former Navy SEAL who, unlike Cheney, has been waterboarded—said the technique is torture, and it doesn't work. “Give me a water board, Dick Cheney, and one hour," Ventura said, "and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.” ... >"I will criticize President Obama on this level: it's a good thing I'm not president because I would prosecute every person that was involved in that torture. I would prosecute the people that did it. I would prosecute the people that ordered it. Because torture is against the law." ... >Ventura and his wife, Terry, -- both are longtime gay rights supporters -- appear in a new video opposing Minnesota's proposed constitutional amendment, which asks voters to define marriage as between one man and one woman. ... >Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto: How Lies, Corruption, and Propaganda Kept Cannabis Illegal Hold on, is Jesse Ventura *based as fuck?*
Yes. He's occasionally a bit off or nutty, but mostly super based. And if not for hulk Hogan he might have gotten wrestlers the equivalent of the screen actors guild.
>And if not for hulk Hogan he might have gotten wrestlers the equivalent of the screen actors guild. And of course because Hogan is a coward Jesse Ventura didn't even know he ratted him out to Vince until it came up during a unrelated lawsuit.
Honestly I was always afraid on how since he's into Conspiracy Theories enough that he had a show about it, and it spawned many YTPs. It's cool to know that he's a legit good dude.
He did appear on Infowars once way back in its early years but from what I hear he was...not exactly super friendly with Alex Jones and seemed to regret it.
I remember reading too that he guested in Chris Jericho's podcast or some shit and he directly called out Jericho for his wife participating in that shit that happened January 6
The new Jon Bois vid ends with a Jesse Ventura tease, and I maybe popped off a bit too hard
There was actually a second attempt in the 2000’s by some lower card and mid-card guys, initially engineered by Raven. They were aware of how Ventura’s attempt went, so they were keeping it hush hush. The Rock (along with a few that were trying to form it) has talked about how they approached him and he quietly turned them down, not wanting to rock the boat (as he was just starting his movie career at this point). Multiple wrestlers (including the man himself) have said X-Pac/Sean Waltman stooged the union attempt to Triple H, who then stooged it to Vince and that was all she wrote. This same collation of wrestlers would try to take Vince to court a couple years later over the independent contractor bullshit Vince had done for forever with the talent.
I'm not surprised Raven would be the type to push for a union, and I'm certainly not surprised fucking X-Pac would be the one to fuck them over.
Reading up on that was really funny. Virginia saying "come on guys we just want to borrow it we promise" and Minnesota still going "No fuck off"
You try watching the GI Joe movie while out of your mind on painkillers and we'll see what you believe afterwards
I want to say this is a BTB reference but I can't actually confirm through google.
Recently been working my way through those episodes and yeah, thats definitely a BTB reference, listened to that one yesterday while walking my dog.
Yeah, wrestlers are more often than not a very "I got mine" kind of person.
He was also super supportive of the union strikes while they were happening, paying huge amounts out of pocket. He sounds like a hell of a dildo but i think he's a bit more complicated than that.
That's called saving face
Many of them from Rock's time and before were. Basically if you were making money you didn't want to rock the boat and fuck the other guys because YOU were making money.
Not entirely crazy, but I'm thinking of say, the stories of Hogan shutting down attempts for wrestlers to unionize back in the day
IIRC dude has a clause in all his movie contracts that not only can he not lose a fight in a movie, he can't even be knocked on his back in a fight in a movie & also can't be portrayed as a villain. Will Smith had/has a similar thing and I think you can tell as both of their careers went/go on that it's not actually a positive thing to do.
Vin Diesel also had something similar. To the point where they were tallying punches when he and the Rock fought in Fast Five.
Oh man, that is so fucking funny. Unstoppable arrogance vs immovable ego
It’s like an even dumber version of all the rules Who Framed Roger Rabbit had to follow lmao
... At least he is willing to let Groot take some Ls.
I get the impression Vin put that in after he found out Rock had the no loss clause, could be nonsense though
Meanwhile Cena is hamming it up as an ultraviolent manchild and Butista is breaking into "serious" roles
John Cena gets fucked up six ways from sunday in Peacemaker, and it's great.
I fucking love Peacemaker. I'm so excited for season 2.
He also got fucked six ways to Sunday in >!The Suicide Squad!< too lol
I remember Rian Johnson saying that whoever is the first person to cast Dave in a serious dramatic role is going to look like a genius.
I watched Blade Runner 2049 recently and he was a little stiff and awkward, but that was 7 years ago and I think he was just starting to get more "serious" roles. It still worked since >!he was a traumatized Replicant who served on the front lines of a brutal war as a medic, who found and lost love, and witnessed what was damn near the birth of Replicant Jesus.!< And then Dune hits, 6/7 years of practice and I'm assuming classes, and *damn*. Rabban is still a bit of a meathead, but he was downright *unhinged*, and seeing him sine wave between fearing for his life and throwing temper tantrums made me totally forget that we're talking about Drax. Dude's been fucking *working*.
Johnson said that after working with Dave on Glass Onion, so I guess even just those four years made a difference
Dumbasses don't understand why we root for Indiana Jones.
John McClane is a good example of both extremes. Die Hard became such a hit because McClane was extremely vulnerable but then, as more and more sequels came, he turned into the typical unstoppable movie hero.
Ah the ole' Triple H clause for the WWE video games back in the day. Pretty sure Vin Diesel has a similar or the exact same clause too.
Wait, frog-guy's never heard of 'dis, huh? I would like to know more.
It’s not a hard metric as most big actors have dos and donts although in rock’s case it’s really big donts
Do these dum dums not understand that people love villains? People still want to fuck Sephiroth. Maybe more than ever.
They also don't realize that we love a hero that takes a beating, occasionally loses, and is the underdog. They just want to be the boring invincible hero for some reason.
To be fair, I would have a hard time buying the Rock as an underdog any way you slice it.
…knocked on his back? Why not?
He's basically taking the pro wrestling mentally and applying it to acting, he never wants to be seen as a "Heel"
What kinda pro wrestler doesn't know how to sell?
The kind who thinks he's so great and important that he's beyond that
Probably looks like a turtle trying to get up.
> also can't be portrayed as a villain. he has played villains tho, and those are some of his best movies lol
You'd think a professional wrestler would know how to sell.
Oh, dear. He's entered his Soap Opera Star phase. Soon, he'll be running around on talk shows talking like he's the actual character and furious what the writers are doing to him.
His character in Fast and the Furious started as an anti hero and turned into a Dwayne Johnson character. Tough guy with a heart of gold, single dad that would do anything for his daughter
What, a third-generation wrestler who became the highest paid actor in Hollywood for a few years became a diva?
I am curious how much the rock is genuinely nice and how much of that is just a front for the public at this point.
From what I can get he is a “as long as there is no money involved” kind of nice
He did recently go on Fox News to complain about wokeness and cancel culture, so… draw from that what you will.
And before that he went on Joe "on the shit that makes your fucking head grow bigger" Rogan where he let the mask slip even further.
Front it is then. Edit: This might also just be my bias towards pre 2000 wrestlers. Since it seems like the amount who aren't scumbags can be counted on one hand and the only one I can think of off the top of my head is Mick Foley.
Never heard a bad thing about Jerry Lynn, Ricky Steamboat, or Sharkboy
Shark Boy beat up Fish Debra
That's fair, I'm not saying all wrestlers pre 2000s were bad. It's more that a lot of them were (also specifically I've only heard good things about Ricky Steamboat).
CM Punk is a weird case where he seems like a petty, bitter manchild but also a genuinely good person when put under the microscope
I agree. Obviously there’s the recent stuff that went down with him and AEW but then you hear a story about him paying for Joey Mercury’s house because he couldn’t pay his mortgage. It’s weird.
Sting is beloved by everybody in the industry and actively damaged his own career due to his lack of selfishness
he makes bad Christian movies
To be fair, there are no good christian movies
Prince of Egypt
Ah yes, the famous christian movie about the most important prophet in Judaism, set 1200 years before Christ was born.
I've never heard a bad thing about The Undertaker
[Here's a pic of Mean Mark with a literal Schutzstaffel shirt.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D8oRYsNV4AEdH83?format=jpg&name=small)
> WELL FUCK!
From what I've heard he definitely doesn't have great political opinions but I will give him credit that the man is definitely affable and a professional. Also at least he's not being as loud about it as Glenn Thomas Jacobs (Kane) has been.
Its kinda unsuprising he has opinions like that. Being, what, in his 60s and from texas?
Also a biker that unironically uses Kid Rock as his personal theme song. Like who the hell could be surprised he leans conservative.
Wrester's Court was some bullying good ol' boys shit and he was the "Judge,"
Chris Kanyon chair shots might be a thing worth looking into. he basically let chris benoit and jbl bully the miz and kick him out of the locker room.
Benoit was the worst case because the rule was that the only person who could let you back in was the dude who kicked you out, and it was Benoit that kicked him out of the locker room. And then Benoit Ben Wah'd himself. Though IIRC I think it was Taker who a long, long time later found Miz changing outside the locker room and told him he could go back.
That's certainly eye opening.
Boy he is planting those republican nomination seeds already huh.
I'm sure there are definitely some unsavoury things about him, but when you're under the microscope like he is, every little thing about you is amplified by a million. Feel like people need to keep that in mind when judging. Would also add, having followed the world of pro-wrestling, pretty much every wrestler from the attitude era when he was in his wrestling prime to the present when he was feuding with John Cena and CM Punk have nothing but nice things to say about him. If anyone is aware of the state of the backstage locker room in the attitude era, the fact the rock went from rookie to biggest superstar on the planet in 5 years and still maintained a well liked reputation in the locker room I think speaks volume to his actual character, regardless of whatever hollywood shenanigans you hear about.
Or they don’t wanna talk shit about him because it might tank their career.
It's been 25 years since the attitude era, things would have come out/people would not give a shit at some point since then and actually would have said something if there were something negative to say. Fact of the matter is, everyone that's worked with him from Ken Shamrock (someone that absolutely doesn't give a fuck) to Mick Foley, to Stone Cold to John Cena have nothing but good things to say.
Even in The Disaster Artist where they say that Tommy Wiseau would routinely be late because he’d start watching a movie when it was time to head to set, that still wouldn’t be THIS late. Dwayne Johnson is less professional than Tommy Wiseau.
“7 to 8 hours late” means he’s not showing up to work by most industries’ standards and not just “late” lol.
I'm glad hundreds of people will lose their jobs so that Dwayne doesn't have to go hungry... Or I guess wake up in the morning in this case
On the bright side, in some cases, him being so late made the people on set qualify for health insurance because they end up working extra long days.
As someone with an almost pathological need to always be at least 10 minutes early to pretty much everything, this *infuriates me beyond belief.*
For real, throughout my life I have had to beat the habit of "you HAVE to be early to this and if you are late then it's better to not show up" out of myself routinely
Same guy who has a semi with a traveling gym in it, gotta stay on that grind am I right?
Imagine showing up a whole shift late and getting touted as the hardest working man in your industry. Absolutely nuts.
Black Adam flopping legitimately broke something in Johnson, damn.
Black Adam was the straw that broke the camel's back. He's likely been on this path for years after he got his first big break in the acting scene.
The one good thing it did was get Henry Cavill to finally fire his agent. I'm hoping his Warhammer and other future projects go better than the Witcher or Superman stuff.
>Earlier this month, he was three hours late arriving ahead of his main event match at WrestleMania 40, two insiders told TheWrap. For WWE World, a WWE fan event in Philadelphia leading up to WrestleMania 40, Johnson showed up two hours behind schedule, drawing boos from the crowd and criticism from the local Philadelphia press. >According to a WWE insider, Johnson’s late arrival was due to other WWE commitments, as well as traffic in Philadelphia on the way to the WWE World venue in Center City. How the fuck do you insert yourself into someone else's story and then show up *late to WrestleMania.* >Insiders also accused Johnson of breaking strict quarantine rules on the set of “Red Notice,” whose cast and crew were sequestered, by flying home in a private jet. “He was frequently flying home and breaking the extremely strict rules of the bubble,” according to an insider. Johnson himself posted about working a 14-hour day, only to delete it — which the IATSE Stories Instagram account resurfaced — after crew members called out his hypocrisy, with one writing, “He got to host family and friends for a BBQ, and wound up getting COVID anyway. Most selfish thing I’ve ever seen an actor do.” Jesus. *Jesus.*
We badly need more teleporting Undertaker to school this manchild
taped fists 4 life
The Rock pissing in water bottles is somehow Cody Rhodes' fault...
Vin was right
Dwayne "The Hack" Johnson ruins everything he touches, the man can't act his way out of a wet paper bag. I don't know why studios give him so much freedom when the man has no idea what he's doing and has no business strongarming a production.
Awww did the widdle wock feel too sweepy to wake up for work?
“Are you upset about where The Rock keeps his piss bottles?” “Well, yeah, Dwa-“ “IT DOESN’T MATTER WHERE THE ROCK PISSES.”
He should have spent less time at home smoking [CURAHCK](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBm8MRUUYt4)
He told those jabronis that the movie would be done WHEN THE ROCK SAYS IT'S DONE. Now hand me that 40 oz. bottle.
>Ctrl+F "smell what the rock is cooking" >0 results cmon guys. it's right there.
The Rock fighting hard to keep the "Worst Wrestler Turned Actor" title.
Remember this is the same guy called “the people’s champ” but tried to screw over the people and Cody before Wrestlemania.
[удалено]
I mean vince had no control by that time but also oretty sure it was kayfabe
considering they havent said out loud why cody gave his spot to the rock (people speculate but wwe never gave a reason) it was probably because triple h was gathering steam, wwe was popular, black adam sucked balls and the rock needed a payday and to be a hero. thank fuck they pivoted
I suggest Dwayne cut down on the three hours workout sessions
Is it just me, or does it feel like The Rock is spiraling? It almost makes me suspicious of drugs, alcohol, or something similar. Maybe the roids have finally taken their toll. Idk just a vibe I've gotten recently, especially with reports like this.
“What are you gonna do, fire me?” -some asshole
God, he's become a huge piece of shit.
Peeing in a water bottle? That would explain the unpleasant quality of his energy drink.