Dwayne Johnson, AKA The Rock, has admitted he does typically urinate in water bottles throughout filming – and is sometimes barely late to set.
In an interview with GQ journal, the actor and producer responded to claims made by trade information website the Wrap about his on-set behaviour throughout the filming of his newest film, Christmas comedy Crimson One: “I’ve stated a thousand occasions: ‘Hey, I’m right here. Come and ask me. And I’ll let you know the reality.’ ”
Within the viral article from April, Johnson’s alleged continual lateness was partly blamed for driving up the finances of the $250m action-comedy, with insiders saying he confirmed up as a lot as eight hours’ late throughout filming, forcing the film-makers to shoot scenes round him.
The Wrap additionally reported the star frequently peed in water bottles whereas making his motion pictures. Johnson, who has beforehand admitted to utilizing bottles to save lots of time throughout exercises, admitted to GQ the behavior extends to his film work: “Yeah, that occurs.”
Responding to reviews of lateness, he stated: “Yeah, that occurs too. However not that quantity, by the way in which. That was a bananas quantity. That’s loopy. Ridiculous.”
Crimson One director Jake Kasdan backed up his star, telling GQ that Johnson, who performs Santa’s bodyguard within the movie, “by no means missed a day of labor ever. He has quite a bit happening. He may be late typically, however such is Hollywood – that’s the case with everyone. Actually, I’ve made three huge motion pictures with him. I’ve by no means seen him be something however nice to each single particular person on the set.”
Chris Evans, who co-stars in Crimson One, was additionally supportive: “By way of the man that I noticed, in comparison with a number of the issues I’ve seen on different motion pictures with different actors who usually are not solely not aware of different folks’s time and efforts, however they’re unpredictable? I discovered Dwayne to be – everyone knows precisely what he’s going to do when he’s going to do it.”
Evans informed GQ that Johnson was typically late to set on mornings the place he was figuring out. “He is available in barely afterward sure mornings, however it’s a part of the plan. It’s labored into the schedules and everybody is aware of it, so he exhibits up when he’s scheduled to point out up.”
Crimson One has acquired overwhelmingly detrimental opinions, with the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw giving it one star and describing it as “profoundly miserable and blandly sentimental”.
