Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is addressing his current weight loss.
The 53-year-old Jumanji actor debuted a noticeably slimmer physique at the 2025 Venice Film Festival while promoting his new movie The Smashing Machine, in which he plays real-life MMA fighter Mark Kerr – and gained 30 pounds of muscle to do so.
Now, he’s taking on the role of a 70-something-year-old called Chicken Man in the upcoming Lizard Music, requiring him to undo all of that work.
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“I still have a long ways to go,” he acknowledged during a career retrospective talk at the film festival, per Variety.
“I’m so excited to get a chance to hopefully transform again like I was able to do in Smashing Machine. [It means] eating less chicken,” he went on to say of the film, which reunites him with the movie’s director, Benny Safdie.
The movie, based on a Daniel Pinkwater novel, centers around a man whose best friend is a 70-year-old chicken.
Here’s the plot summary, via Deadline: “When a boy left to his own devices stumbles upon a secret late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music, a hidden door to the extraordinary swings open. His search for answers leads him to the eccentric and whimsical Chicken Man and his beloved companion, a 70-year-old chicken named Claudia — two kindred spirits who have also glimpsed the impossible. United by this shared vision, they set off on an adventure that begins as a hunt for a hidden society but blossoms into something far greater: a voyage through invisible worlds, unexpected harmonies, and the unbreakable bond between lost souls who discover magic not only in what they find, but in each other.”
Dwayne also addressed the transformation he did to his body for The Smashing Machine.
Source: justjared.com