The Rock Reacts To Golden Globe Nomination
The Rock is nominated for a major acting award for the first time.
It was announced earlier on December 8th that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has been nominated for a prestigious Golden Globe Award for his work as Mark Kerr in “The Smashing Machine” film.
The Rock is one of the six nominees for a Golden Globe award for the Best Performance by a Male Actor (Drama) category. The list of nominees are below:
- Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams)
- Oscar Isaac (Frankenstein)
- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (The Smashing Machine)
- Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)
- Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)
- Jeremy Allen White (Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere)
The 83rd Golden Globe Award ceremony will take place on January 11, 2026.
Emily Blunt co-stars with Johnson in “The Smashing Machine” and is also nominated for the Golden Globes for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, The Rock revealed how he learned about his Golden Globe nomination.
“Today has been very surreal. I sleep in airplane mode on my phone and keep it by my bed. I get up, and of course, I know the nominations are happening, but I also know that I got to get up with the babies at about 6:05 a.m. So I take it off airplane mode and start to get up. I’m getting ready to go wake up babies and I just hear one buzz.
I went, ‘Oh, I got one text. That can’t be good.’ I grabbed my phone, and I see that my first text is from Ryan Coogler. I went, ‘Well, he’s not texting me to tell me, ‘Hey, I’m sorry.’’ So I opened up that text and he said ‘Congratulations, brother.’ Then come to find out that the one buzz I got wound up being just the indicator that I had about 250 texts. But Ryan broke the news to me.”
Being A Pro Wrestler Helped The Rock With “The Smashing Machine”
Playing an MMA fighter like Mark Kerr likely wouldn’t be easy for most actors, but The Rock’s background as a legendary pro wrestler certainly helped him in the role. He told the Hollywood Reporter about how his history as a legendary pro wrestler helped him in the movie.
“Being a pro wrestler enabled me with a few things. I had a good sense of when I got into a ring or a cage for the film. I had a good sense of what we call Ring Generalship, so I have a pretty good knowledge of my presence in the ring. But what I also realized, and this was very sobering, is that there is nothing like pro wrestling and there is nothing like MMA, and how wildly different they actually are. So being a pro wrestler helped me in terms of, I think Ring Generalship and body on body composition.
But the transformation physically, I wound up gaining 32 pounds. It was wild amount of weight that was very hard to carry for three and a half months. Not only that, but there was a certain quality of muscle that I had to gain that allowed me still to move in the ring.
Mark Kerr had this very uniquely athletically gifted body. He was massive, muscles everywhere, but he could move like a cheetah, and he was just a very rare human being of a physical specimen, but he was very specific, like his traps and his back and his neck and quads.
I’d gained a few pounds and lost a few pounds for some roles, but this was a whole other level, and what wound up becoming very invaluable for me and my performance was Kazu and the 23 prosthetics he created that were the eyes, nose, cauliflower ears, scars, that wound up being such an invaluable part of the transformation.”
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