"Becoming Mark Kerr, a 6-foot-3, 260-pound former NCAA collegiate wrestling champion turned MMA fighter, included a process unlike any other during Johnson's acting career. A busy start to 2024 with his first WWE match in 11 years bled into a grueling month-long camp for "The Smashing Machine," an A24 production that releases on Friday. Each day on set required makeup that took three to four hours to complete and 21 prosthetics, courtesy of Academy Award winner Kazu Hiro, to make Johnson look like Kerr."
"'Dad, he walks like you. He looks like you. He talks like you.' It was just [this] whole narrative of the confirmation of his transformation into somebody other than Dwayne Johnson," Kerr told ESPN and other reporters during a media roundtable last month. "It was this, you know, validation of a third party going, 'Oh my gosh, he's like Dad.'" His son went even further, telling Kerr: "Dad, he's even got your heart." "Wow, man," Johnson replied. "That's beautiful.""
Dwayne Johnson prepared for the role of Mark Kerr with a month-long physical camp after a busy start to 2024 that included a WWE match. Each filming day required three to four hours of makeup and 21 prosthetics designed by Kazu Hiro to reshape Johnson into the 6-foot-3, 260-pound former collegiate wrestling champion and MMA fighter. Johnson worked with a voice coach to adopt Kerr's soft, tender speech. The performance prompted emotional reactions from Kerr's family and has been described by critics as one of Johnson's best and almost unrecognizable.
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