Dwayne Johnson will play his “Moana” demigod in person this time around.
than the former pro wrestler-turned-action star had ever looked in public. On Monday morning, Johnson looked drastically different yet again when Disney releasedIn the film franchise, Johnson voices and will next play on-screen the muscular “demigod” who helps Moana restore the heart of Te Fiti and save her family and island home.
The character’s oversized body posed a complication for the star, who is between films that require very different looks., a biopic about UFC fighter Mark Kerr, and then slimmed down again to star as a much thinner septuagenarian character in“I couldn’t have a big bodysuit and then a small little skinny neck,” Johnson told the site. His demigod Disney character required him to look particularly buff once again, just four weeks after filming, for which he must lose 50 pounds. “Forty, 50 pounds is a lot to put on,” he explained. “Then it’s a lot to maintain for months.”“was grueling because of the suit and how hot it was. Wait till you see pictures. In between takes, there’s literally five, six people” holding fans, “opening me up, pulling my hair back.” Johnson said the production opted for a bodysuit over effects for the “tactile, emotional resonance.” “It moves and breathes with you,” he added. “So we thought the best iteration of this was, let’s go for it.” The actor shocked fans last year when he appeared at the Venice Film Festival with a new, much thinner physique.“I had to transform my body, which was a massive challenge for me,” he also said, discussing his role in, it’s the first time Disney has released a live-action version of an animated film only ten years after the original.. The first film broke streaming records years after its 2019 box-office run, becoming the #1 most-streamed movie in the U.S. in both 2022 and 2023, "Moana 2" broke Disney’s box office record for an animated film, grossing $389 million for the company. Johnson discussed the pressure of “honoring” the first film with Entertainment Weekly on Monday: “How do you say ‘We love it too,’ and make it something that can be a companion and not try to be the same thing, but also trust what works?” He explained, “The opportunity to have flesh and blood and have human beings tell the story and sing these songs and be in this world, there’s something so fundamentally different about that experience of watching and feeling that.”
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