Thursday, February 19, 2009

Dwayne Johnson's thoughts on being called "The Rock"


The March issue of Giant Magazine (pictured above) features Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson on the cover, with an article titled "Dwayne Johnson: Metamorphic" that covers his growing up in a wrestling family and his current film career.

In the article, he credits WWE with teaching him how to perform, saying:

"Wrestling gave me the platform to entertain crowds of twenty, thirty, forty, fifty thousand people. The experience was invaluable. ..We played Madison Square Garden every month and a half, one little stage. That was my theater, and what a learning experience it was."

The article also addresses his phasing out of "The Rock" name, and how he feels about people who still refer to him by that name:

“People ask if I mind if they call me The Rock. There’s no visceral reaction for me that ‘No, you can’t.’ The Rock is a nickname, and people call me that all the time, and it’s fine. It’s a damn cool nickname, too.”

The magazine is available now on news-stands, and for more on the article, including some photos from the magazine, you can click here.

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