Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson chats with USA TODAY's briantruitt about the life lessons learned and journey traveled in creating the film 'Black Adam.'
“I have been with this character for such a long time,” Johnson says. “Admittedly, I grew up a DC boy – and I'm still a DC boy. I haven't grown up yet. The very first time I saw a Black Adam comic book, he his brown skin, he had the body and the face of a pro wrestler. I loved pro wrestling growing up and still do, so immediately I was identifying with him.
Johnson’s “a great guy, great sense of humor,” says his “Black Adam” co-star Hodge, “but we do see this full immersion where he's very much different than the Dwayne Johnson that we know from other films. “For all of the grandiosity around DJ, from his history as a wrestler to being a megastar in the film world, we see this sort of magnate on a worldwide scale. We oftentimes may miss the fact that when it comes down to it, he's still an actor. He is who he is because he understands performance and he understands where those values are.”“Black Adam” has also proved a filmmaking journey for Johnson, a producer on the superhero epic.
“The want really turned into a need in that moment, and I became even more steadfast,” Johnson says. “I put my blinders on and became really intensely focused, and I would not let it go.” Ultimately, the studio made all the movies it wanted to, and “Black Adam” came to fruition. “It’s all happened in the way that it's meant to happen. As Doctor Fate says in the movie, ‘Fate does not make mistakes.’ So here we are, brother.
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