Ever since the successful premiere of Benny Safdie 's The Smashing Machine at the Venice Film Festival recently, there's been a lot of praise for Dwayne Johnson 's impressive leading performance in it, as well as predictions for major awards nominations for him. However, none of it comes off as a surprise to attentive viewers, who have been following Johnson's acting career and therefore are aware of his versatile range. While usually being lauded as a perfect action hero who also possesses impressive comedic chops, Johnson also demonstrated his ability to be self-aware and blend in perfectly into the most unexpected and bizarre cinematic worlds . One of the early but memorable examples of this in the actor's career is Richard Kelly 's Southland Tales — a wond

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