Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

0:00Your name The rally cry we all know your legend you're the son of Zeus All we want to be husband and a father You cannot deny what you are the gods will punish you for it That's right writing a new one that's what we're gonna play Where you from cool MS well here, but MSN you're from Canada. Yeah, well I didn't hear a lot of people know

0:46Oh, I have it. I don't have a Canadian accent now. You do now I do you know to say like about or something. Yeah So I heard you lived alone locked yourself away to you wanted to disappear into this character So you're doing like the Daniel day everyone called you her gun set and all that stuff. No, I didn't do that It's different with Daniel day. It's different if they were calling him president mr. President President Lincoln no one was going to hey, hirk How did you disappear into it though? I wanted to well It started with a commitment by the way and started with a commitment of taking something that is beloved in a mythology It's beloved and all these iterations over the past by the way cartoons and TV Movies Hercules it just came out in the beginning of the year by the way With coming months, so there's so many Hercules. How do we how do we make this one different?

1:32I wanted to make him survived Experienced I wanted to get lost in terms of his hair in terms of the transformation and scars and beard and things like that and And also making sure that we were playing on the fact that He was not buying into his own story did not care that he was the son of Zeus He had lost his family tragically. They were murdered and getting into that headspace So by the time I got home every night and even on the weekends or any days off it helped me to be locked up just in my room and not do anything Yeah, I heard you say well you want to make this move for a long time Yeah, we can need the life experience to be able to play it 14 years after getting into all of it Hollywood So what were what life experience did you need for Hercules? What did you need to learn?

2:21How to down a gallon of tequila in one night. I wanted to here's the thing, you know Yeah, it's random just go with it. It's like jazz Matt Just go with it. It's like jazz When we When I first got into Hollywood and it was I was probably 27 years old Hercules was the first Property that I bought up to every studio executive by the way and I didn't have the clouds of the juice back then to make it But I'm glad they didn't greenlight Hercules back then by the way because I just didn't have the experience and and to be The age of the mat today by the time we shot this I was 41 years old and already lived already had kids already been a

3:06Dead already been divorced already been down and we've gone through depression I rebattled that but up and down inside been everywhere and had lived a very nice complete life with a lot of experience and this version of Hercules was Older was experience was survived had lost his family had gone through a myriad of life too as well so that that's what that so when I say that I say that with great respect by the way to the Character that I it would have been a different version if it would happen 15 years ago compared to today, right? I got to let you go. So you some call five. It was way too quick. I know Always two days five quick questions. Okay, one more dancers got it stripped or improv improv comedy your drama Tommy letting her McCartney Cartney Hitchcock or Kubrick it's cock in one word Hercules

3:57Epic nice. Thank you good questions by the way. Well, yeah, we're good. I'm gonna plug the book. Oh, yeah. Thank you