The next few months will be pretty eventful for John Cena on the 2023 new movie releases front, for a couple reasons in particular. This weekend, moviegoers will see him reprise Jakob Toretto in Fast X, just two years after he made his Fast & Furious debut in F9. Then in late July, Barbie will follow, which will see him playing a merman of all roles. Now the WWE star has revealed the “accidental” way he was looped into Barbie’s cast of all-star talent.
Although he wasn’t shown in the Barbie trailer released in April, our own Riley Utley was pleased to see Cena’s name shown towards the end of the preview, so now we just have to wait and see how his merman character factors into the story. In the meantime, while stopping by TODAY to talk about his work on Fast X, Cena went over how just inadvertently crossing paths with Robbie in everyday life led to him being cast in Barbie:
