When Headlocks Met Hollywood: Tinseltown’s Longtime Affair With Wrestling
When Headlocks Met Hollywood: Tinseltown’s Longtime Affair With Wrestling
This Year’s ‘Wrestlemania’ Is Going Hollywood, But Movies and Wrestlers Are a Long-Time Tag-Team
ABC NEWS ORIGINAL REPORT
Here’s what they had to say about Dwayne:
March 26, 2005 — World Wrestling Entertainment is going Hollywood for its 21st annual “Wrestlemania” this year. But Hollywood came calling for wrestlers a long time ago. “The Rock” Dwayne Johnson — who first rose to fame as a third-generation WWE wrestler — drew some critical acclaim and laughs as a gay bodyguard/aspiring actor in “Be Cool,” the sequel to “Get Shorty.” “The Rock” has been the only wrestler to parlay his in-ring success into a full-time Hollywood career. Since turning some heads for his small role in 2002’s “The Mummy Returns,” he has been in starring roles in movies such as “The Scorpion King,” “The Rundown” and the remake of “Walking Tall.”
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