15 Acting Jobs You Didn't Know These Wrestlers Took On

15. Kurt Angle - Pain & Gain

Pain & Gain is based on a 2000 Miami New Times article by investigative journalist Pete Collins about a couple of Florida steroid-abusing knucklehead bodybuilders who become criminals involved in an extortion ring and a kidnapping plot that goes horribly awry. The Rock plays one of those steroid-abusing knuckleheads. During the film Rocky's character, Paul Doyle, finds himself in a spot of bother in the court yard of the prison as several inmates try to beat him up. The Most Electrifying Man In Sports Entertainment deals with the first few with minimum fuss before Angle's character puts up more of a fight. Rock actually has to use a weight to fend him off, first hitting him in the head with it before frisbeeing it straight in the Olympic gold medalist's mouth. That facial expression. Fine acting from Angle.