{"id":131098,"date":"2025-09-09T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131098\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:54:09","slug":"dwayne-the-rock-johnson-explains-his-recent-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131098\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne \u2018The Rock\u2019 Johnson explains his recent weight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n A man who built a career of his brawn looks a lighter these days.\n <\/p>\n

\n Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson\u2019s decidedly more svelte appearance has raised more than a few eyebrows. The professional wrestler turned movie star explained the change during the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival\u2019s \u201cIn Conversation With\u2026\u201d series held Monday.\n <\/p>\n

\n Johnson, though still muscular, said he has slimmed down for a movie role, according to People magazine<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe\u2019re gonna make a film called Lizard Music, which is based off of a novel written by Daniel Pinkwater,\u201d Johnson said.\n <\/p>\n

\n The film \u201cis a very whimsical and eccentric 70-something-year-old man called the Chicken Man. And his best friend is a 70-something-year-old chicken,\u201d he explained.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019m so excited because I get a chance to hopefully transform again like I was able to do in \u2018Smashing Machine,\u2019\u201d Johnson said. \u201cCan\u2019t wait.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n The actor is more bulked-up in the forthcoming drama \u201cThe Smashing Machine.\u201d Johnson portrays former MMA fighter and UFC heavyweight champion Mark Kerr in the film.\n <\/p>\n

\n He did the opposite of bulking up for \u201cLizard Music\u201d and Johnson said he\u2019s not done transforming.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThis is me slimmed down,\u201d he said. \u201cI still have a long ways to go.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe Smashing Machine\u201d recently premiered to rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival, sparking buzz Johnson could possibly earn an Oscar nomination for his performance.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link A man who built a career of his brawn looks a lighter these days.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-131098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}