Dwayne Johnson (https://www.google.com/search?q=dwayne+johnson+hello+mag&scaesv=db06df8ffc1e69f4&rlz=1C1GCEAenGB1171GB1171&ei=zurcaILxJJuyhbIPmZaO8QE&ved=0ahUKEwiCkPzuzoKQAxUbWUEAHRmLIx4Q4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=dwayne+johnson+hello+mag&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiGGR3YXluZSBqb2huc29uIGhlbGxvIG1hZzIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRifBTIFECEYnwUyBRAhGJ8FMgUQIRifBTIFECEYnwVIgB1QAFjdHHACeAGQAQCYAe8CoAHIEqoBCDIxLjIuMC4yoAeL7QKyBwgyMC4zLjAuMrgHmxTCBwkwLjIuMTUuMTDIB7YB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp) is everywhere right now promoting his new film The Smashing Machine, and fans will notice that his physique, famously built and muscular, is looking on the slimmer side – something The Rock has no qualms about discussing. The former wrestler and actor, 53, has opened up about purposefully losing weight after he focused on gaining weight to portray American former wrestler Mark Kerr in the new biopic about his life. "I've been dieting," he said. "Happy to not be carrying all the weight. I'm able to tuck in my shirt now… I don't look pregnant, so it's all good."
The actor, who hails from California, even revealed his fitness inspiration as he set about shedding the weight he had gained to play the mixed martial artist. "Think Clint Eastwood at 75. Sinewy muscles, he's lean. But it feels good," he added.
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'I gained 30 pounds to play Mark Kerr and then came back down after that to my normal weight of around 250 or so. Now I'm in the process of slimming down where I play a 70-something-year-old man,' Dwayne told LadBible ahead of starring in Lizard Music. "So the slimming down is happening. And we have time to do it, which is really nice. There's nothing extreme about it. I can't wait, because again, it's the opportunity that I have where I can immerse myself into something and disappear."
Changing his appearance
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He has previously spoken about how he embraced the changes to his appearance in order to play the so-called 'Smashing Machine'. "I've done it in the past, a couple of pounds here, five or ten there, [to] modulate my weight up or down, but this was massive," the star revealed to talkSPORT.
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'Benny [Safdie, the director] came to me, we had a good laugh about it, and he said, ‘I don't know how to say this, and I don’t know if you’ve ever been asked this, you’re going to have to get bigger.' I kind of laughed, but I knew he was right, because Mark Kerr was puffier. Mark was a big guy – a lot bigger than I was back then.'
