26Hercules Shoot
During the shooting of the scene where Hercules breaks free of his chains in the movie Hercules (2014), Dwayne Johnson stated that he “blacked out” after every take, “I asked the prop department to lock me in with real steel chains that I couldn't break, so the performance would be real. When Hercules finally accepts his fate of being the son of Zeus, it's the epic moment of the mythology and our movie. We shot this scene 8 times. I blacked out every time. Down to my knees. Well worth the pain. This moment is iconic. I'm excited for you to see it.”
27. Dwayne Johnson bulked up to nearly 300 pounds for his role in Pain & Gain (2013). At just over $20 million, this movie was also Michael Bay’s lowest-budgeted film since his feature film debut, Bad Boys (1995). Bay, Mark Wahlberg, and Dwayne Johnson took pay cuts to keep the budget down.
28. Dwayne Johnson was considered for the role of ‘Hellboy’ before it went to Ron Perlman in Hellboy (2004).
29. While filming Welcome to the Jungle (2003), Dwayne Johnson accidentally sliced Seann William Scott’s arm open with a knife that was supposed to be a blunt prop knife but wasn’t. Although not seriously injured, Scott still required several stitches.
30. In the movie Rampage, whenever Dwayne Johnson's character signs his name ‘Davis’ he is in fact signing ‘Rock’ in American Sign Langauge (ASL).
