Dwayne Johnson Is Unrecognizable In First Photo From Benny Safdie’s ‘The Smashing Machine’
Believe it or not, that is Dwayne Johnson — sans tattoos and with a bunch of hair, along with some truly impressive prosthetic makeup — in the first photo of his upcoming film The Smashing Machine. If I didn’t know it was The Rock, I honestly would not recognize him. The film was written and directed by Benny Safdie (solo, without his brother Josh, who has been his typical collaborator since the beginning of their shared filmmaking careers) and based on the life of former MMA fighter Mark Kerr. The Smashing Machinewas previously the title of a documentary about Kerr from 2002. In Safdie’s film...