{"id":409316,"date":"2025-09-09T02:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/409316\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T02:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:29:10","slug":"the-reason-for-dwayne-the-rock-johnsons-weight-loss-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/409316\/","title":{"rendered":"The reason for Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson&#8217;s weight loss in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former WWE champion Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson debuted a slimmer physique at the Venice Film Festival while promoting his new film <strong>The Smashing Machine<\/strong> where he plays UFC champion Mark Kerr. Rock appeared at the Miu Miu Women\u2019s Tales event in a light blue collared shirt and black dress pants, showcasing his leaner look.<\/p>\n<p>At the Toronto Film Festival, Rock revealed that his physique transformation is for the role of a \u201cwhimsical, eccentric 70-something year-old\u201d named Chicken Man in <strong>Lizard Music<\/strong>. Rock reflected on the conversation he had with director Benny Safdie\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBenny pitched me this after, and after about 45 minutes, this pitch ended and I said, \u2018I am your Chicken Man.\u2019 I still have a long ways to go. I\u2019m so excited to get a chance to hopefully transform again like I was able to do in \u2018Smashing Machine.\u2019 [It means] eating less chicken.\u201d (quote courtesy of Variety.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former WWE champion Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson debuted a slimmer physique at the Venice Film Festival while promoting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,75587,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-409316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-the-rock","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115171987492988932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}