Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is addressing his current weight loss.

The 53-year-old Jumanji actor debuted a noticeably slimmer physique at the 2025 Venice Film Festival while promoting his new movie The Smashing Machine , in which he plays real-life MMA fighter Mark Kerr – and gained 30 pounds of muscle to do so.

Now, he’s taking on the role of a 70-something-year-old called Chicken Man in the upcoming Lizard Music , requiring him to undo all of that work.

“I still have a long ways to go,” he acknowledged during a career retrospective talk at the film festival, per Variety .

“I’m so excited to get a chance to hopefully transform again like I was able to do in Smashing Machine . [It means] eating less chicken,” he went on to say of the film, which reunites him with th

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