{"id":223360,"date":"2025-12-09T08:36:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/223360\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T08:36:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:36:28","slug":"dwayne-johnson-thanks-brendan-fraser-for-taking-risk-on-him-with-the-mummy-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/223360\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson thanks Brendan Fraser for taking ‘risk’ on him with ‘The Mummy Returns’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dwyane<\/p>\n

Dwyane Johnson is all set to reunite with Kevin Hart in new ‘Jumanji’ movie<\/p>\n

Dwayne Johnson has nothing but only praise for Brendan Fraser for helping him mark his big screen debut.<\/p>\n

Johnson had been known as a renowned wrestling champion before he turned to acting. <\/p>\n

He started up with small cameo roles and eventually ended up marking his major movie debut with The Mummy Returns in 2001. <\/p>\n

In a recent chat with Brendan for Variety\u2019s Actors on Actors series, the 53-year-old thanked former for giving him a chance and taking a risk on him with the role. <\/p>\n

The Rock added, “You and I first connected on The Mummy Returns. That was one of the biggest franchises in the world at that time. I was ready to make my transition into Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hobbs & Shaw actor revealed that Fraser could have turned down the idea of giving me a try considering that I was a wrestling pro, but he did do that.<\/p>\n

“And there was a moment where you could have said, \u2018This guy, Dwayne Johnson, he’s never acted before, he’s in pro wrestling.’ The word I got back was, ‘Brendan loves the idea. He’s welcomed you with open arms\u201d, Johnson added. <\/p>\n

He directly told The Whale actor, “It meant something to me, because you took a risk on me, and years later, you and I are sitting here. I want to thank you for really changing my life.”<\/p>\n

Work wise, Dwayne has teased that he will be reuniting with Jack Black and Kevin Hart for the new Jumanji movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dwyane Johnson is all set to reunite with Kevin Hart in new ‘Jumanji’ movie Dwayne Johnson has nothing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-223360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115688701703399136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}