Dwayne Johnson took to Instagram earlier this week to address the wax figure made in his likeness.
BuzzFeed StaffLast week, the Parisian museum unveiled a wax figure of the actor. However, it quickly came under fire for whatJames's video on his own Instagram page."I knew my boy @jamesjeffersonj had this Rock wax statue in his roasting crosshairs 😂💣🔥," he wrote in the caption."'Is this how y’all felt when you lost the Little Mermaid?' 🤣 legit belly laughed at this ☝🏾.
"We're going to work on this amazing waxwork so it better represents him," Yves continued."It's been a major task for the sculptor. We're going to keep improving it!" Yves ended the video by noting they're looking forward to having that drink with Dwayne."Long live Dwayne Johnson, who's going to stop in and have a drink with us in Paris soon!" he said.
It appears an updated version of the wax figure has already been revealed, with new photos being released on Tuesday showing an employee updating the figure.also reported on Wednesday that the figure had been updated."We found his reaction rather friendly when addressing the fact that his figure was indeed whiter than it should have been,” the museum's head of PR, Veronique Berecz, told Variety.
In response to the publication's question about accusations of"whitewashing" Johnson's likeness, Berecz said,"This has nothing do with it — we just made an honest mistake based on the photos we looked at,” she said. “After we saw all these reactions on different blogs and social networks, we changed it immediately.”
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