After working together in Jungle Cruise, Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt will reunite for Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine. Both stars will be wowing audiences in their transformative real-life roles of Mark Kerr and his then-wife Dawn Staples. Just when you thought Johnson’s almost unrecognizable role as the MMA athlete was a career game-changer, Blunt told him when they first met what she felt his real “performance of a lifetime” was to her.
We know Dwayne Johnson’s best movies tend to fall in the blockbuster genre, but his role in the upcoming A24 movie will have Johnson show off not only his intense makeup, but also Benny Safdie’s signature “radical empathy” element of delving into the psychology of the athlete. However, his Smashing Machine co-star Emily Blunt got real to ET while at TIFF about what she told Johnson his real “performance of a lifetime” was when they first met, and I totally get it:
