How did The Rock go from flopping for a decade + to biggest movie star in the game?

[Roid Jones]

Joke went over your head breh

Alas it did...........................

 

[Roid Jones]

Come on breh. Brock’s finisher move is called the F5. This match was literally the last match when he stopped being a full time wrestler and went to Hollywood.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

what's kind of sad is i actually think he is a decent actor

but he has decided to just be typecast in roles that don’t require showing it

Kind of difficult to do so when people are so used to him being his wrestling character and is beloved.

 

[Rell84shots]

Before his comeback in 2011 every movie except one made money. To answer your question, Becoming The Rock again and dropping Dwayne Johnson is how he became a megastar again.

 

[Paper Boi]

Nothing sad about it, he's an average actor that has studied a blue print others have used to great success

i’m speaking as a viewer not as his accountant

 

[Womb Raider]

Because he’s the greatest actor any of us has ever seen, fukk you mean

 

[Roid Jones]

i’m speaking as a viewer not as his accountant

Decent or average, nothing is lost with him doing safe films

 

[TEH]

Because he’s the greatest actor any of us has ever seen, fukk you mean

These casual movie watchers don’t understand the levels of acting the future President has attained.

 

[Rembrandt]

 

[Womb Raider]

These casual movie watchers don’t understand the levels of acting the future President has attained.

These mfs don’t watch movies they skim thru it

 

[Red Money]

He's racially ambiguous. He can have a white wife and white kids in a movie. He's in that Vin Disiel category....but better acting range.

 

[ThatTruth777]

I think the way I saw it when he first got started was that he was trying to legit be seen as diverse actor with range to a degree. Everybody wanted him to go the action hero route but that was too obvious I guess. But it wasn't panning out too well so he said fukk it and its been working out imo, some bumps along the way but what path doesn't.

 

[The God Poster]

Did he ascend before Kevin Hart?

I feel like they both blew up movie wise around the same time. I might be off tho

 

[feelosofer]

A couple of reasons.

He is naturally personable and his years and pedigree in wrestling catered to his natural strengths.

Being racially ambiguous helped him stand out in the 2000s as people were getting fatigued at the white action star at that point. It also helped that he stayed relatively apolitical (though he seems to be a moderate conservative).

He was willing to take smaller, supporting roles and even flops like the Scorpion King still reflected positively on him. Built a cult following with movies like the Rundown and Walking Tall.

The Rock was one of the few wrestlers smart enough to leverage his brand into something beyond the mat.

 

[Mowgli]

Put on a dress probably