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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Dwayne Johnson Was More Terrified to Act in The Smashing Machine Than Any Other Movie in His Career · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Dwayne Johnson has a reputation for having pretty thick skin,
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  Speaker 2: but he admits, even after two decades spent making huge
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  Speaker 2: movies dipping his toes into dramatic acting, for his role
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  Speaker 2: in The Smashing Machine genuinely terrified him, telling Vanity Fair,
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  Speaker 2: the fear was very real. I had not experienced that
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  Speaker 2: in a very long time, where I was really scared
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  Speaker 2: and thinking, I don't know if I can do this,
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  Speaker 2: can I actually do this. I realized opportunities like this
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  Speaker 2: weren't coming my way because I was too scared to
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  Speaker 2: explore myself. I was so hungry to do something wrong, gritty,
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  Speaker 2: to rip myself open. And Smashing Machine came along. You
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  Speaker 2: have to be willing to tap into all the stuff
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  Speaker 2: that he had gone through, and this was it. I found
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  Speaker 2: it scary but nourishing and freeing. Dwayne Johnson there starring
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  Speaker 2: in The Smashing Machine in theaters October third.
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  Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood.