Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s new look isn’t just for a change of pace, the actor revealed Monday. A week after he debuted his dramatically slimmed down body at the Venice Film Festival, where he was promoting his first dramatic starring role in biopic The Smashing Machine, Johnson, 53, said the new slim-down is for his next film project. “It’s out there now, big news is I’m teaming up with Benny Safdie again and we’re gonna make a film called Lizard Music, which is based off of a novel written by Daniel Pinkwater,” he told an audience at Toronto International Film Festival, per Entertainment Weekly. Safdie wrote and directed Smashing Machine, so Johnson said he was sold on his pitch about the children’s novel as soon as Smashing Machine wrapped. “The role that I will play is a very whimsica
The Rock Reveals Role That Inspired His Shocking New Bod

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