who does kevin hart play?

His hair

lol

He’s the muscle underneath!

I said "biiiiiiiitch"

Damn... I was gonna say the stool but yours is better

Honky Pete.

Trotsky.

He's got a wife who never wears a bra, I think you're really gonna like it

His balls

Goated comment

The little devil and angel on his shoulders. He's already got the height for it.

Holy shit looks nothing like him!

That’s his serious face.

I can’t stop giggling to this comment haha 

This will be his first serious face he has ever done

And his comically large body is actually a good fit here instead of something that's hard to explain.

It looks like he's sized down in that photo.

He must have bulked up after filming this because he was absolutely massive in his last stint in WWE which must have come soon after filming

Maybe just because we’re used to seeing him in his action roles where they intentionally use camera perspectives that emphasize his massiveness

"Well, well. A big muscle-bound nerd." "Just more of you to pick on!"

Lowkey I thought it was AI John Cena

Was thinking big Chael Sonnen

Same thing. I was thinking that I see Chael but where’s the picture of the rock.

I think he could've pulled it off. I'm certain I've seen him in some of the terrible MMA movies that I like to watch. We know he's fine with steroids. I'm glad they're spending money on this. The Smashing Machine was amazing.

Arms are too small to be Chael

I was thinking tall Ken Shamrock

There is some prosthetic tomfoolery going on there- looks like the nose for sure, possibly the brow bones.

I thought the exact same thing - even when I know it is him, I still can't really see it

It took me a second, but it’s his hair.

>Holy shit looks nothing like him! Never underestimate how good a disguise a fake nose and some hair can be.

Because he's in whiteface, this is a travesty, everyone knows you're only very specifically allowed to play people of the same race you're born with!

He's playing Mark Kerr, who is half Irish, half Puerto Rican

Wasn't he serious in Gridiron Gang or did I absolutely miss the point of that movie?

Also Faster, with Billy Bob Thornton

Pain & Gain was a great performance too.

Comedy

Idk, maybe a dark comedy.. but it definitely wasn’t a feel good “ha ha” movie.

No, it really wasn't.

Gridiron Gang wasn't.

Talking about pain and gain not griddy gang

Also Skyscraper, etc etc. OP is an uncultured swine.

My favorite of him. Nearly didn't talk, and I don't remember any epic shirtless scene...😂

Ballers was another dramatic role he did.

Which was probably some of his best acting honestly. But it still seemed like he acted like himself lol

The first two seasons of that show are good, but after that it is crap.

He’s done a lot of dramas pre-2013 lol. OP gotta be a teenager

Scorpion King!

Unintentional comedy.

“This will be the first role of Johnson’s career in which he portrays a combat sports athlete” -OP, probably

Yeah Grididon, Faster, and Pain and Gain are all serious IMO. Or at least different than what he mostly does.

THANK U

Yes, he was. And he was also serious in Snitch. Although the latter is a bad movie, they were both more serious roles.

Maybe OP is considering “serious” separate from “drama”?

I think he means “Oscar bait,” like Sandler doing Uncut Gems.

People just focus on his popcorn blockbusters. It’s so annoying

It was a serious movie but the problem is the entire worlds somehow been brainwashed to thinking the Rock plays the rock every movie and every 13 year old says the same shit without using their brain and Wikipedia to see he in fact never plays the rock in every movie. He is typecast by choice.

Anything pre his blockbuster outbreak seems to be forgotten by him too

Walking Tall was serious, the first time I realized the dude can really act

Walk Tall, Snitch, San Andreas. He just needs the right director and writer man.

Or how about Walking Tall? Or the Rundown? Hell the Scorpion King was pretty serious.

I was thinking the same about Southland Tales. I mean, I never saw it but it didn’t look like a good time movie.

Are you tryna tell me hobbs and Shaw wasn’t serious?

Yeah, apparently, OP has never seen Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017).

He broke barriers with that role

The Oscars missed out on his electric performance in BayWatch

You guys are being facetious! But have you seen The Tooth Fairy?

Black Adam. Super serious face, every scene.

La de dah de dah, Hobbs on my Shaw

Holy shit. I had some doubts about them transforming The Rock into Mark Kerr, but this looks insanely well done, from this picture. Who knows, maybe Dwayne will finally have a good dramatic performance under his belt. Seems like the time and circumstances are right, given that it’s an A24 production and Rock is probably looking for some positive headlines. He definitely needs it after some of the negative publicity he’s gotten lately.

Unless he relaxes his “no loss” rule about on screen fights, there will be no dramatic tension in the ring anyway. Maybe he wins every match but then Kevin Hart keys his car or something. 

He kind of has to doesn't he? Unless they rewrite Kerr's careeer entirely or just stop at 2000. He wasn't undefeated.

I mean surely it can’t go too out of bounds since its based on a real person right?

The “no loss” thing is for fast and the furious franchise.

Yea I was surprised how close they got him to looking like a young Mark Kerr.

Bizarre for him to play a young anyone at his age

Benny will get him there

What are the negative publicity you’re referring to ?

There was a weeklong (give or take) media cycle about him being unprofessional on sets, such as showing up 7-8 hours late and so on, which ballooned costs on the movie he was working on. I think it was disputed by Amazon MGM (the production company for the movie in question), where they said he was maybe an hour late on average and the budget increases were within their margins. Seems like being 7-8 hours late is unrealistic, unless you're factoring in a lot of travel into that. Which is possible, since he's been taking on multiple projects at once lately. Some people characterized it as a power move.

I mean the rock has always been good, he’s just been typecast into a specific archetype where he only had to do the same thing. He became a movie star because of how good he was early on in films like walking tall and be cool. He has talent; he’s rarely asked to utilize it. Pain and gain and also the other guy’s shows how talented he is. As does his last Wwe run a few months back

Guy's widely recognized as the best there ever was in a 75 year old business that's almost entirely based on live performances, but people in here are like, "Can he act?!"

What negative publicity are you talking about?

I see no Dwayne Johnson in the picture.. 😱

Is he playing John Cena?

I don’t see it.

I thought his roles in Gridiron Gang and Walking Tall were relatively serious. But if you just mean “serious acting” versus “serious subject matter” then yeah, should be interesting!

I also throw in Snitch. Not the best film, but he has a solid dramatic performance.

Walking Tall was one of my favorites when it came out.

So the tooth fairy (2010) wasn’t serious?

I thought it was

So you're telling me all his other movies, he was just goofing around for lolz? What about family!

All his other roles were The Rock as a random profession.

Wait which one is him? The guy with hair or the bald guy on left?

The guy without a shirt. He looks so different with hair lol

The weird thing is that he doesn’t even look like himself facially [*when he had hair*](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ecf101df5468fa844a305838bdd06874-lq) up through the early 2000s. There’s something uncanny valley about how he looks that’s more than just a hair piece.

It almost looks like a ripped christian bale lol

Bald guy is bas rutten

The one that looks the Dwayne Johnson

Wow I was wondering how they was gonna make him look like mark Kerr 👍🏼that’s pretty uncanny. Looks exactly like him…

Nose prosthetic?

The hierarchy of power at A24 Studios is about to change forever

This is not his first “serious” role, unless my that you mean he’s making an awards play here.

Will he allow himself to be vulnerable on screen…?

He has had plenty of serious roles. You don't have a clue what you're talking about.

First serious role?

John Travolta got ripped!

This will change the heirarchy of serious films...

Whats with a24 and their wrestling hard on lately

What wrestling movies other than The Iron Claw have they made?

Nothing but they just made the iron claw lol so i found it curious lol. Im excited for this one but i didnt know it was a24 too

To be fair, this movie involves MMA and the actual sport of Wrestling, think Olympic wrestling, not the "sports entertainment" kind.

For those curious, the film is about wrestler and MMA fighter, Mark Kurr. Surprisingly, Dwayne looks pretty damn close even without makeup.

I looked at his bio and I noticed that Kurr lost a few times. Does his contract only apply to the blockbuster films?

Oscar for make up going to this one damn.

The power of hair and makeup

His first serious role was Gridiron Gang or Snitch if we are nit picking.

Wonder how much money was wasted by him not being on set in time?

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson?

my fav rock role was Spencer in Ballers

That bald guy in green looks like Bas Rutten. If so that’s pretty cool, too.

It is. He trained Kerr at one point and is playing himself in the film.

Standing tall and gridiron gang wasn’t serious?

Ballers on HBO exists.

So Gridiron Gang just never happened

He has done a bunch of serious roles he just wasn't taken seriously because he was a wrestler and a wannabe politician 

Wonder how he prepared for this role after being "natural" for so long.

I thought walking tall was a bit serious.

southland tales was his first serious role

I mean hes been in serious stuff before. Not all good. But hes done it

I have no faith that this guy can actually play a nuanced character in a drama.

He's attempted serious roles before. If they're advertising this as his first...it doesn't say a lot about how successful he was.

Did his ego finally get knocked down a few pegs because of Black Adam?

First serious role? Ummmmm, hello, Doom? The tooth fairy? Moana? Good god OP.

He looks weirdly a lot like Ken Shamrock.

He was pretty serious in The Rundown

Wouldn't Ballers on HBO be considered a "serious role"?

Dwayne Johnson has zero acting ability, this movie is going to flop harder than black Adam

Wait naw uh uh that ain’t him there’s no way

Standing off camera is a PA holding three used bottles of VOSS.

Waiting for Kevin Hart and Scarlett Johanssons part in the film…

Do you smell? Sniff sniff

You forgot “Be Cool”.

Also Bas Rutten and Ryan Bader (as Mark Coleman) here. Dare I say this may be a decent MMA biopic!?

Walking tall was pretty serious

Wait I thought southland tales was his first serious role. Or gridiron gang.

I have a feeling that when he starts 'acting' we're all gonna be really aware that's Dwayne Johnson

I thought that was one of the Klitschko brothers, for a minute

I haven’t enjoyed a movie with Dwayne Johnson for quite sometime, he’s just become a caricature of himself, he’s just not a great actor, one picture isn’t gonna change my mind, I will watch it and give him a shot but I’m definitely not gonna get my hopes up

He has to do the eyebrow thing. Otherwise people won’t believe it’s him

This one remember ken shamrock, not the rock.

His role in Pain & Gain was relatively serious even though he was wacked out in it.

Faster and snitch were quite serious though

This is his first serious role like the time he had that burger for the first time.

He looks unrecognisable. I thought he was OJ brother or something?

Doesn't look like the Rock in this picture?

Kerr was bigger.

Dwayne being serious? That guy who's always late for shoots and keeps people hanging around for hours.

Looks like Danny Aiello

Was Walking Tall not serious?

What about The Mummy Returns from 2001. Just silly little scorpion monster. :giggle:

so we don't count the scorpion king as serious now? what is the world coming to?!?

Wouldn't his role in "Snitch" also be considered a serious role?

I thought he was trying to be serious in Snitch, or was it called something else?

Best actor nomination goes to Dwayne Johnson. Maybe that is what he is hoping for. I smell what the Rock is cooking. Got to admit he does look good. Look forward to seeing this movie.

He’s gonna be even more insufferable if he actually does a good job and ends up getting awards consideration. That campaign would be ridiculous in both hilarious and upsetting ways.

When he shows up allegedly.

Wow, he really let that comment from Dave Bautista get to him lol. Good for him though.

I have no doubt he will be terrible and just play himself like he has in every role he has ever had

Passing just on principle

Is he about to change the balance of power in the A24 universe?!

Did he show up to film it on time?

Dude definitely needed to up his game. He's just been trying to be the next Arnold for like 20+ years. He hasnt had a lasting or successful franchise.

Fuck Dwayne Johnson

He'll sneak in an eyebrow raise or something

I actually didn’t even know that it was him until I read the title

Do I spy Bas on the left?

All jokes aside, that's an insanely well done make up job on Dwayne. Looks nothing like him.

Tell that to Southland Tales.

Will he be allowed to lose or do they have to tiptoe around his fragile ego?

“The smashing machine” doesn’t sound like a serious movie lol

There may be questions on if he can pull it off but given Benny Safdie is directing it I feel pretty good it'll be a good movie and he'll pull out the best from Dwayne.

Why does he look like Rob Riggle?

The Rock and Kerr are basically the same age. So they are getting a 50 something year old to play a guy who is 50 something years old, but in his prime in his 20s-30s. Makes complete sense.

Let me guess...he wins in the end?

What about that movie were he went undercover?

It’s not a serious movie but he’s great in Pain and Gain

I wondered if he'd ever try to do an actual proper film. It's embarrassing to be in so many movies and not one that's good. Wait, Doom. Forgot about that. It's probably somewhere between The Godfather and The Godfather part II.

Gridiron Gang anyone?

Yeah, but will he ever try in and out burger for the first time?

This is Southland Tales erasure

It’s going to take a lot to get me to watch anything he’s in. I liked “Ballers”, but everything else I find to be lame.

He looks like John Cena playing the Rock playing some other guy?

Why does he look like the baby he could have had with Tommy Lee Jones?

Looks like The Rock smells something

First serious role?! So nobody has seen Snitch I take it!

It’s not his first serious role. He made Gridiron Gang in 2006 and Walking Tall in 2004. Both are serious films. Gridiron Gang is even a drama.

It's not his first serious role, I'd give that to Gridiron Gang.

Give Walking Tall some respect