Dwayne Johnson is already getting a lot of praise for his performance in The Smashing Machine . It’s quite a long way from any sort of performance that we’ve seen from him, a serious and dramatic portrayal of former UFC fighter Mark Kerr. However, while it might be the most challenging role of his career, he says it was also a part that he completely understood.

Mark Kerr was a UFC champion, and Dwayne Johnson became a WWE champion , but the thing that truly connected the two, as the actor tells EW , is the idea of fighting and failing to achieve dreams. The Rock said…

I have been waiting for this opportunity to challenge myself in ways that I'd not been challenged before, to really just rip myself open as an actor. What I was able to connect with in Mark is when you want someth

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