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Dwayne Johnson<\/strong> and Emily Blunt<\/strong> have been in the headlines ahead of the premiere of their upcoming film, The Smashing Machine<\/strong>. In a recent interview, the co-stars opened up about the filming procedure and shared how their close friendship helped them during their creative collaboration.<\/p>\n The Smashing Machine stars Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt shower praises on each other, with Johnson crediting Blunt for helping him tap into his vulnerability.<\/p>\n In a recent interview with Vanity Fair<\/a>, the duo described their experience working together again after the 2021 film, Jungle Cruise. The Black Adam actor shared how Blunt, who is his real-life \u201cbest friend,\u201d helped him access his \u201cvulnerability.\u201d He shared how this trait was necessary for him to essay the character of MMA fighter Mark Kerr. \u201cIf Emily and I weren\u2019t best friends, I don\u2019t know that we could\u2019ve gone to the places we went to,\u201d Johnson stated. The 53-year-old further added, \u201cThat closeness created the trust, which then allowed for the vulnerability, which then allowed for [us to] go anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Blunt acknowledged Johnson\u2019s efforts to step into the UFC legend\u2019s shoes. She stated, \u201cIt seemed to be an effortless immersion \u2014 like a full disappearance, spooky. From day one, he was elsewhere.\u201d The Oppenheimer actress continued, \u201cHe has absorbed and borne witness to so much of what Mark has experienced that it was such a beautiful thing to watch this person let go of having to be an image, of having to be The Rock, and crack himself in half for this role.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think until this moment, maybe [Dwayne] thought that was the only lane that people wanted to see him in,\u201d she added. For the unaware, Emily Blunt plays Mark Kerr\u2019s former wife, Dawn Staples, in The Smashing Machine. Directed by Benny Safdie, the film also features Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten, and Oleksandr Usyk, among others, in important roles. The biographical sports drama will release in theaters on October 3, 2025.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Ritika Singh on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Dwayne Johnson Credits Emily Blunt for Helping Him<\/a> appeared first on Reality Tea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt have been in the headlines ahead of the premiere of their upcoming film, The Smashing Machine. In a recent interview, the co-stars opened up about the filming procedure and shared how their close friendship helped them during their creative collaboration. Dwayne Johnson credits Emily Blunt for helping him access his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1983238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[305874,313617,344655,57296,356312],"class_list":["post-1983237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-dwayne-johnson","tag-emily-blunt","tag-mark-kerr","tag-vanity-fair","tag-vulnerability"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dwayne-Johnson-Credits-Emily-Blunt-for-Helping-Him.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Dwayne Johnson credits Emily Blunt for helping him access his vulnerability<\/h2>\n