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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Dwayne Johnson Explains Why The Smashing Machine Was His Best Movie Experience Despite its Box Office Failure · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Dwaye Johnson has done what tons of big movies.
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  Speaker 1: With everything about them being big, big budgets, co stars, concepts,
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  Speaker 1: and big box office halls.
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  Speaker 2: His last movie, The Smashing Machine, was very different, and
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  Speaker 2: that unfortunately included the box office.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it didn't perform so well, but I love that
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  Speaker 1: he still says everything he did before The Smashing Machine
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  Speaker 1: was leading him into that moment his proudest.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he separates the experience from its success. In
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  Speaker 2: a conversation with his Mummy co star Brendan Fraser for Variety,
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  Speaker 2: he reflected on the huge positive reception it received at
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  Speaker 2: the Venice Film Festival.
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  Speaker 1: Something like a ten minute standing ovation made him realize
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  Speaker 1: that he was finally living his dream, not anybody else's.
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  Speaker 1: He loved making all his other movies, but they involved
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  Speaker 1: so many people. They never felt like his thing exactly.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when Smashing Machine felt like just him, Emily
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  Speaker 2: Blunt and director Benny Safti.
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  Speaker 1: It was there, baby, He exhaled during that ovation in
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  Speaker 1: a way that he'd never felt a release in his
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  Speaker 1: entire career.
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  Speaker 2: The Smashing Machine is out now, that's
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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood.