10 Things John Cena STILL Can’t Actually Do
3. Act
He could do with getting good at this pretty quickly too, considering his in-progress career path.
Or, is something different happening here?
When Terry Funk and Roddy Piper made strides towards the silver screen in the 1980s, they broadly shed their wrestling skin, though notably couldn't transform smidgings of cinematic credibility into permanent Hollywood careers. Hulk Hogan was abysmal at it - he was as brilliant a pro wrestler as he was awful an actor. Terry Bollea's penis may have been smaller than Hulk Hogan's but their personalities weren't separate enough whenever 'The Hulkster' tried to mix it up with regular folk on the various beaches and spaceships he frequented in his time away from the squared circle.
John Cena is one of the least convincing actors in Sports Entertainment - an industry not exact famed for subtle believability. His ventures into film have fared better of late, but the Rotten Tomatoes jury remains out on his body of work overall. As a WWE Superstar, he's hammy, not overtly believable in expressing emotion, and manages his vocal volume control with the dexterity of a tired toddler.
That he's gotten by without needing to get significantly better has removed the need to do so, but perhaps his failings in his first love betray a malleability in his new one.