Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson gushes over his friendship…

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson gushes over his friendship on set with 'good dude' Pierce Brosnan

Dwayne The Rock Johnson as heaped praised of 007-star Pierce Brosnan – calling him a “magnetic” person with a “really kind soul”.

The former wrestler-turned-Hollywood star said the Navan native will also be the only James Bond to him “because he is so striking”.

Speaking to Crossy on FM104 at the UK premiere of Black Adam in London’s Leicester Square, he said: “I’ve been a fan of Pierce for a very long time and when I got on set for the first time and Pierce and I started talking and we got to know each other, you realise very quickly why he is and will always be James Bond because he is so striking.

“I mean, he is magnetic, and he’s got a presence about him but here’s the best thing about Pierce in my opinion is that he is a really good dude.

“He is a really kind soul, and he lives in Hawaii, which is great so we’re neighbours.

“He’s a good Irishman. I love kissing him on the cheek because we do like a hard kiss on the cheek, like he wants to headbutt me, you know,” he added jokingly.

Johnson stars alongside Brosnan in his new movie, Black Adam. The movie also stars Quintessa Swindell, Noah Centineo, and Aldis Hodge.

Black Adam follows the story of anti-hero Teth Adam, a 5,000-year-old slave-turned-warrior with godlike abilities.

The movie is considered to be both a spin-off and a prequel of the 2019 Shazam! movie, starring Zachary Levi.

Johnson said he had wanted to "usher in a new era" for the DC franchise.

"We made a great movie, we knew that was the most important thing," he told PA.

"We wanted to create a movie that was appealing globally to people and we wanted to kind of turn the superhero genre on its head a little bit with creating an anti-hero with a lot of edge.

"We also want it to usher in a new era."

He continued: "The thing I liked the most was every day putting on the costume, because it was just so cool.

"To come to work every day, you're living a dream, like you're a little kid.

"I mean the work is hard, but certainly well worth it."

Johnson added that there was no "worst part" to making Black Adam, joking that after its release he would most likely "join the circus".

The action star previously said the idea of him running in the US presidential election is "off the table" and that he would rather spend his time "being a daddy" to his daughters.

Johnson's co-star Swindell, who plays superheroine Cyclone in the movie, praised his "dedication" to the process as well as his sense of humour.

"He's incredibly funny, which I did not expect" she told PA.

"We would be doing a very serious scene and DJ (Johnson) would say something really random and we would be ruining like 10 takes after that. He's hilarious."