Fart Machines & Fake Effects: The Rock Hilariously Reacts To The Scorpion King
Apparently areolas make for good days on set.
You may love The Rock, but there's absolutely no way on this green Earth that you love his debut leading movie The Scorpion King. It's beyond terrible, lumbered with some pretty awful effects and it's generally not one anyone should really look back on fondly.
But Dwayne Johnson also knows it was a big moment for him in his Hollywood career, as it paved the way for him to become the highest paid actor in the business. We can't all start out with a home run...
In honour of the film's exalted position, Rocky has released a new The Rock Reacts video to his Youtube (following the inaugural edition looking at his first ever WWE match), and it's a hoot. Highlights include throwing shade at the effects, fart machine pranks, celebrating his own perfectly sculpted eyebrows and making out with three extras.
To the surprise of absolutely no-one, he draws the line at crucifying the film - which was a critical bust when it came out. At least his humour adds some enjoyment after all these years.
He also revealed that his career basically kicked off thanks to a performance marred by illness. On The Mummy Returns, Johnson reveals he was struggling with a bug that made all sorts of delightful things come out of his body, but the studio saw enough in his performance in the dailies that they offered him the spin-off there and then. Not a great foundation for the film, really, but further indication that the man is an unrelenting machine.