Former WWE champion Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson debuted a slimmer physique at the Venice Film Festival while promoting his new film The Smashing Machine where he plays UFC champion Mark Kerr. Rock appeared at the Miu Miu Women\u2019s Tales event in a light blue collared shirt and black dress pants, showcasing his leaner look.<\/p>\n
At the Toronto Film Festival, Rock revealed that his physique transformation is for the role of a \u201cwhimsical, eccentric 70-something year-old\u201d named Chicken Man in Lizard Music. Rock reflected on the conversation he had with director Benny Safdie\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cBenny pitched me this after, and after about 45 minutes, this pitch ended and I said, \u2018I am your Chicken Man.\u2019 I still have a long ways to go. I\u2019m so excited to get a chance to hopefully transform again like I was able to do in \u2018Smashing Machine.\u2019 [It means] eating less chicken.\u201d (quote courtesy of Variety.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former WWE champion Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson debuted a slimmer physique at the Venice Film Festival while promoting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,58960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-124151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-the-rock","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}