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- Another interesting thing about The Scorpion King was that the sword broke during one of the fighting scenes he had with Michael Clark Duncan. This wasn’t planned, and he later described it as a dangerous and that anyone could get hurt.
- Johnny Bravo role was also in store for this man, but not long after the inception of this idea it was shelved, and it didn’t go any further from the production stage.
- Just like many other superstars, Dwayne had a stunt double but what is interesting here is that his cousin Tanoai Reed is appearing in most of his movies.
- In many of his early roles, he was credited as The Rock, but The Game Plan was the last one in which he was signed like that. In this film, he plays Joe Kingman, a famous football player.
- Joe Kingman was injured, and both real Dwayne Johnson and his character had the same issue. While he was playing for the University Of Miami in 1991, he suffered a separated shoulder.
- We know this guy as a very creative man, and he introduced the idea to the director that Joe Kingman should be a big Elvis Presley fan, which he accepted. Many of the memorabilia that were shown in this film were delivered by Johnson.
- No matter how well you are prepared you can get hurt, and this happened to Dwayne as he ruptured Achilles tendon during a football practice that caused for the production to be pushed for several months.
- We could hear Johnson singing Are You Lonesome Tonight on both Saturday Night Live show which he hosted and in the movie.
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE — “Dwayne Johnson” Episode 1678 — Pictured: (l-r) Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, Dwayne Johnson, Sasheer Zamata and Aidy Bryant during “Dwayne Johnson’s Franchise Viagra Monologue” on March 28, 2015 — (Photo by: Dana Edelson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
