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The Rock has revealed how being a pro wrestler prepared him to entertain people as an actor.<\/p>\n
During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, <\/em>The Rock shared that pro wrestling taught him how to engage with fans and helped him become one of the most entertaining stars both inside the ring and on the big screen.<\/p>\n \u201cThat taught me that idea of always taking care of the audience, doing your best to send them home happy, and believing in what the performance is. My ring was my stage and the character was who I thought was interesting and intriguing.<\/p>\n The Rock further stated that he was never interested in being a wrestler who performs crazy moves and that he concentrated on being the most entertaining performer.<\/p>\n \u201cI never was interested in being the biggest guy or the loudest guy or the craziest guy or the guy that did all these crazy moves off the top rope, because that just wasn\u2019t me. But I thought, \u2018Maybe I could be the most entertaining.’\u201d<\/p>\n The Rock also addressed The Smashing Machine<\/em>\u2018s underwhelming box office performance<\/a> in the same interview.<\/p>\n Speaking on the Click and Tell<\/a> <\/em>podcast, former WWE Champion Jinder Mahal<\/a> claimed The Rock handpicked him for a promo segment on the January 1, 2024, episode of Raw.<\/p>\n \u201cHe left me a voice note, and I met with him at his hotel room because he was going to arrive right before and surprise everyone,\u201d Mahal said. \u201cWhen people come early, people see them, and then it goes all over the internet and the surprise is ruined. So he wasn\u2019t going to be at the arena all day. They secretly took me to his hotel room.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I went to his hotel room, he told me they gave him a list of eight or nine people, and he picked me. He said, \u2018I knew I could do a good promo with you.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Yeah, awesome.\u2019<\/p>\n Jinder Mahal also claimed The Rock thanked him after the segment<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read More:<\/strong> The Rock Shares How He Knew About Osama Bin Laden Being Killed Before It Went Public<\/a><\/p>\n The post The Rock Highlights How Pro Wrestling Prepared Him For Acting<\/a> appeared first on Wrestlezone<\/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":" The Rock has revealed how being a pro wrestler prepared him to entertain people as an actor. During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, The Rock shared that pro wrestling taught him how to engage with fans and helped him become one of the most entertaining stars both inside the ring and on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2143255,"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":[25172],"tags":[409201,31190],"class_list":["post-2143254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-jinder-mahal","tag-the-hollywood-reporter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Rock-Highlights-How-Pro-Wrestling-Prepared-Him-For-Acting.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143254","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=2143254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143256,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143254\/revisions\/2143256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2143255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Former WWE Superstar Claims The Rock Handpicked Him For A Segment<\/h2>\n