RoxWorld Interview with Dwayne Johnson for Hercules

Thanks so much for being with us today. Thank you. And for being on Palm Beach Rocks. Thank you. I'm so excited. I think I'm even nervous. I love you. Rocks and rock here. It's so cool. I know. Yes, you definitely do rock rock. So tell me, this is such an exciting film that's coming out. Demigod Hercules. Very exciting. Yes, it is. And I have to say that you look a little different in this film. I'm kind of seeing some hair, this very cool headdress. Was that hard to wear? Well, the lion headdress was a big pain because you can't really tighten it up too much. So that was a pain to wear. The long hair and the beard, we went out and we got the most incredible wig makers and designers in Hollywood, Oscar winners and nominated for wigs and makeup and everything. So we had a great team and it was a three-hour process. So I appreciate, as women, what you go through with the wig. Take care of your hair and make yourself beautiful. So it was a long process, but well worth it. Now, what was it like when you went out for this role? Well, it was a lot of hard work, I think the prep. So it was an eight-month prep. I'd just wrapped Fast and Furious 6 and we were in London shooting and then I immediately went into the prep of this. It was an eight-month process. Grueling training, diet. Again, you get one shot at making Hercules. You got to make it right. You got to look the part. And I also felt that being an older man, I felt that the timing was right to be Hercules. In my mind, I never saw him as a younger kid or a guy or anything. He's a guy who's lived and gone through terrible things with his family and overcome that. So it was a long process. The training was long, diet was long, but well worth it. Here we are. Yeah, you look fantastic. Thank you. I think they picked the right Hercules for sure. And I think it's a lot of fun. And you're right, the script is very smartly written. I think that it shows you in a whole different aspect, a whole different way of seeing Hercules or what I grew up with. Yeah, and what I grew up with too, by the way. There was a version of Hercules that we grew up with. I think one of the smart things about the script was to take the mythology and a well-loved and honored, time-honored mythology of Hercules and the Twelve Labors and Hera and Zeus and uniquely put different spins on everything but still honor the mythology. So I was very happy with the script that came in, happy with the filmmakers, Brett Ratner. I was very happy with it. Great, yeah, great cast. And I think the beasts. Yeah. Those look pretty cool. They were great, by the way. They were so super cool. So that's the one thing, you like it with Hercules, you have the club and you can fight and there's these amazing battles that we had. And then the other end of that, then you start shooting these scenes that involve the Twelve Labors and the Hydra and the serpents and the Cerberus, the three-headed wolf hounds and the big Nemean lion. It was really, really a lot of fun. Really cool. Very cool. I like it when you're coming out of the water. I love that. Great scene. Did you have one that you loved the very best? When you saw it and you just said, aha, this is the moment. I did, honestly. I love the, you know, there's an iconic moment in the mythology of Hercules where he's chained and he finally breaks free and he accepts his faith and his inner power and he becomes Hercules.