Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's mom shares his embarrassing nickname

He is one of the biggest stars in the world and he's here to talk about his new movie Skyscraper. Dwayne Johnson, get on out here my friend. Thank you for being here. Last week you were in Hong Kong, you are the busiest man, you're all over the place, whirlwind world tour. I'm just curious, when you're in Hong Kong, it looks like Fandemonium over there. So do you find it hard to fit in? It's not that I find it hard to fit in, it's I literally do not fit in, yes I literally do not. I mean these are some of the pictures which you guys will see, like I'm trying to walk down the streets and I kind of stick out a little bit. I think it's the bag I'm carrying, I'm not quite too sure what it is. But yeah, I had a great time, you know, being over in Hong Kong and we started our tour really phenomenal and the love was just incredible and I'm always so grateful to go over there because it's always the great reminder when you can go to an event and people are going absolutely crazy and bananas. Do you remember the last time you were anonymous? I do, it was I think when I was about 20 to 23 honestly, about that time, yes. But it all goes out the window, but I always tell people by the way, the alternative to that is I go back to nobody knowing who I was or me getting evicted when I was 15, I couldn't afford to pay the rent, so you get no complaints out of me, and plus I stopped trying to fit in. Usually when I used to try and fit in, I used to just wear like a goofy hat and it was like oh there's The Rock with a stupid hat, I don't know why, why are you? I think if you wore that fanny pack, you'd look like The Rock. You see, everything was good, everything was good until you bring up the fanny pack, okay, thank you. I embrace the fanny pack. You know what, one thing I love about you, you embrace your characters man, and we hear that for every movie, you wear a different scent for the character, so in Skyscraper, I do. What was the scent for Skyscraper? Ambition was the scent, and yeah, woo, for Ambition. You know, I can't remember what it was, I got into this weird thing years ago where I think it was for my very first movie, Scorpion King, when I first broke into the business, and I had a cologne on, and I remember the movie fortunately did pretty good, and I was like oh, well, I'm gonna, you know how that silly thing happens to all the superstitious, yes, exactly. The athlete and everybody, yeah. Exactly, so yes, I can't remember what the name of, it was probably fanny pack, that's what it was. You know, it was great. Should we see him in action, you guys ready? It's better than not applause, but that particular scene, so something special happened during that day, so on Skyscraper, Skyscraper, I feel, it was special for us for a lot of reasons. A week before shooting, I put a lot of time and research and effort into this role and this movie, looking for something to pull inspiration from, and a week before shooting, we find out that we're having our third baby girl, and yes, thank you, and then, and that was for me, but for our writer, director, Rossen Thurber, who you guys will meet shortly, that particular scene where I'm holding up, yeah, that's, yes, there she is, with Mama Lauren, she's doing great, I love you, I'll be home Wednesday night, and so this particular scene where I'm holding my family up, and the metaphor of that, what it actually means on screen, but the metaphor of that, holding them up as she's trying to cross the bridge, coming to me, during that scene, it was 2 o'clock in the morning, our writer, director Rossen Thurber, said, I'm so sorry, I have to step away, and he stepped away, and he FaceTimed his wife as she gave birth to the little girl, she's so beautiful, yes, but later in the week, you do so many great things, and one thing, another tradition, as also with the cologne, is Make-A-Wish kids, sure, you spend an entire day when you're on set, and you do that for every movie, and your father inspired you to do that, well, yeah, you know, my dad, who was a former pro wrestler, and he wound up granting one of the first 10 wishes ever for Make-A-Wish, and it was in 1983, and I saw the impact when I was a kid of that, so Make-A-Wish is a very big part of my life, and so yes, for every movie, there's generally a nice sized list of Make-A-Wish kids who want to meet me, and Skyscraper, we created this, and we're actually going to do it on Jungle Cruise too, this year, probably in about a month or so, where I turn the set almost into like Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, and we have all these great partners who come in, like a Microsoft, and everybody who will come in, and they'll set up all these fun events and activities, so the kids come to our set, and you know, we often forget how cool our job is, and when people come to sets, they're looking around, and these kids look around, and you know, well, for example, if one of the Make-A-Wishes, they want to ride in the Lamborghini, we'll call up our partners at Lamborghini, bring in Lamborghinis, and ride in it, the best time, so you know, again, we're in this position, and you know, any opportunity, we kind of give back. That's wonderful. We have a lot of other big projects coming up, looking forward to teaming up with Kevin Hart again, Jumanji. Well, I mean, between us, George, you know, yeah, so we have Jumanji, teaming up with Kevin again for Jumanji, we'll start shooting that as of now in January, I'm shooting Jungle Cruise now, based off the popular Disney ride, which, yes, very cool. The full co-star is the lovely and talented Emily Blunt, who has Mary Poppins coming out this Christmas, and we're also doing the Fast and Furious spin-off, Hot Wheels, based off my character, and Jason Statham's character, and we just, our main villain will now be Idris Elba, yeah, before I run for president, I do have a lot to do, but when you run for, you know, you're going to run for president, you talked about that, right? But I saw earlier, your mom's here. I love mama, you know, mama's such a sweetheart. Where is she at? Where is mama, mom? Congratulations. Oh, wow. But when you were growing up, growing up, your mom, your parents called you Dewey. Yes. And you had a lot of nicknames. What did you call him, Dewey? What was behind that? Dewey. Yes. Yeah. I said that as Dew Drops, and then. Oh, God. When he was a pebble, he was Dew Drops, and then from there, it was Dew Dew, and then Dewey. So what do your kids call you? I make them call me sir. No, I mean, they call me dad and daddy, and you know, it's the best way. Let's see, a two and a half year old Jazzy and a four month old, almost four, baby Tia. Yes. But you know, Simone's 16. She's accomplished a lot herself, but you think she'll follow in your footsteps? Well, yes. Well, here's the crazy thing about my daughter, Simone, is she's so smart. We're all so proud of her. She's going into her senior year. She signed with IMG as a model. There she is right there. She was a Golden Globes ambassador with Midnight at Golden Globes. Simone is working so hard, and her work has already started. She wants to be a WWE wrestler. Oh, yes. How does that feel about that? Yes, I love that idea, and I think, you know, that's what I just, we had this big conversation. She came with me to Hong Kong and Beijing, and I said, honey, whatever your passion is, I support that, and wrestling was good to me. I started my career in Madison Square Garden, so yeah, bring it on. She's going to be a champ. All right. Teacher, you can have him. You okay with that, Grandma? Grandma, you okay with that? She will lay the smack down, yes. We're just getting started with Doudrop. Skyscraper is in theaters this Friday.