Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
March 7 - 13, 2021 l 3
BY JAY BOBBIN
Dwayne Johnson
OF ‘YOUNG ROCK’ ON NBC
In depicting your boyhood, “Young Rock” deals
with your early interest in wrestling. Is that where
you wanted to place a lot of the focus from the
start?
It’s truly a love letter to professional wrestling, which is a
business that I grew up in and a business that I’ve loved
all of my life. I learned some of my most valuable, while
very unorthodox, lessons coming out of the world of pro
wrestling ... so (I appreciated) to be able to highlight
and showcase these men who were, in essence, my
superheroes.
I will say that of the actors we cast, all of them really,
truly embodied these professional wrestlers. In many
ways, this is the very first time you’re seeing these
wrestlers portrayed, certainly in primetime.
How did you decide on the approach you wanted “Young Rock” to have?
I thought, “Let’s not take the easy route.” It was incredibly complicated and it was incredibly tough
growing up, and we specifically went with these timelines in my life that were very defining times
... at 10 years old, 15, and 18.
And if we are, universe willing, lucky enough to come back for
another round of this thing, there’s a lot of other things in between those years that took place.
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