Dwayne Johnson has opened up about his weight reduction, and revealed he ‘nonetheless has an extended technique to go’.

Earlier this month, the 53-year-old, also called the Rock, left Hollywood shocked together with his dramatic transformation, which had followers rebranding him ‘the Pebble’.

The Quick and Livid star’s new look was all the way down to his newest function as MMA fighter Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie’s upcoming A24 movie, The Smashing Machine – which just lately premiered on the Venice Movie Competition.

Nonetheless, selling the flick in a brand new interview, he shared that he shall be dropping much more weight for one more mission with Benny – the place he performs a person in his 70s who has a detailed friendship with a rooster.

‘Benny pitched me this after,’ he mentioned by way of Selection. ‘And after about 45 minutes, this pitch ended and I mentioned, “I’m your Hen Man.”’

In response to the outlet, Dwayne dropped 30lbs of muscle that he developed for the Smashing Machine, however has a journey forward of him to arrange for enjoying Hen Man in Lizard King.

‘I nonetheless have an extended methods to go,’ he added. ‘I’m so excited to get an opportunity to hopefully remodel once more like I used to be capable of do in Smashing Machine.

‘[It means] consuming much less rooster.’

Lizard King serves as an adaptation of a novel by Daniel Pinkwater, and follows an eccentric man and his bond with a rooster – one thing the actor is hoping exhibits off a special aspect of his abilities.

Dwayne’s newest efforts within the Smashing Machine had been met with large applause by critics, lowering him to tears when the film acquired a 15-minute standing ovation after the screening at Venice.

He had everybody doing a double-take when he hit the purple carpet wanting visibly slimmer, and spoke about how excited he was to tackle such an enormous transformation for the mission.

‘This transformation was one thing I used to be actually hungry to do,’ he declared at a press convention. ‘I had been very lucky to have the profession that I’ve had through the years and to make the movies that I’ve made.

‘However there was only a voice inside me, a bit of voice, that mentioned, “Nicely, what if I may do extra – I wish to do extra and what does that appear like?”’

Emily Blunt, who stars as Daybreak Stables, had a front-row seat into Dwayne’s slim-down and described seeing him ‘fully disappear’ as ‘one of the vital extraordinary issues’.

‘It was spooky, spooky for all of us,’ she recalled. ‘I keep in mind when he walked in as Mark for the primary time, it modified the air within the room, it was like everybody parted, everybody went very quiet.’

‘I’m positive that sucked for you,’ she added. ‘Nevertheless it was extraordinary’.

Dwayne is not any stranger to switching issues up for a brand new function, and beforehand shared his work-out routines forward of his stint in Black Adam in 2023.

‘Massive week for #BlackAdam taking pictures my “champion” scenes with my shirt off and exhibiting my physique,’ he mentioned on Instagram on the time. ‘Been working extraordinarily laborious weight-reduction plan, coaching and conditioning not like some other function of my complete profession.

‘Manipulating water, sodium, cardio but additionally having to push and pull actual iron to have dense, dry, detailed muscle.

‘It’s an actual science that takes months and months to dial all of it in with my power & conditioning coach @daverienzi who retains a really watchful eye, consistently effective tuning our technique each day.

‘Massive week, grateful for the grind & assist – right here we go.’

This text was first revealed on September 3.

The Smashing Machine is launched in cinemas on October 3.

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