Dwayne Johnson Absolutely Smoked a Steel Gate

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James welcomes Dwayne Johnson to Stage 56 and the two recall how James wasn't there for Dwayne's first appearance on The Late Late Show -- so the universe is finally in order. After, Dwayne talks about his journey from being a social media skeptic to being the most-followed American male on Earth. And the "Red Notice" star talks about his new film and how he had to rip a gate off its hinges to get to set one day.
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Well, we couldn't be more we couldn't be more thrilled that you a last time you were here I wasn't here no because
Julia my wife she'd gone into labor. We've had our daughter Charlotte's Brian Cranston covered that day. Yes
I'll be honest a little too. Well, I
Hope nobody from CBS is watching how good Brian Cranston
I call the head of CBS that night and was like listen Brian is actually better than Jim. I'm kidding
No, no, I did not I didn't I'm sorry bad joke listen what
Now there's so much I want to talk to you about you are and this this blows my mind
I don't know how it feels for you. So you are alive. Yes. There is that I wasn't gonna talk about that, but
Were you the last sexiest man alive the most recent one? I
I don't give it up right regardless of who people puts on the cover. I say yes
You are you are the most
Followed American man on planet Earth on the Internet on Instagram
What do you think of that when you raise is that not a points overwhelming
It's crazy because you know, it was just about 10 years ago that I just I got into social media
But at first I don't know how it was for you
But I was adverse to social media because I thought well
I mean it feels like people are just talking about their hamburgers or hey check this out
It just didn't feel like I had a hard time understanding what it was until I realized like oh
Maybe there's a way that I could do it where I could connect with people in a way that any other platform wouldn't allow
So it's been amazing and I gotta tell you it the connection that we have has been
One of the best things if not, the best thing I've been able to do I think
Period across the board in business and Hollywood outside of Hollywood. It's been great. Well, you posted I want to watch you about this
You posted this photo here. You posted this on Instagram of a of a broken gate
Which to me looks like you got in a fight with a gate in the gate lost
Can you explain what happened here? What is this?
Yeah, so there was a there was a thunderstorm a big storm the night before it knocked out all of our power
I had to go to work the next day. Where is this?
This is in Atlanta, Georgia, right and I had to go to work the next day and we're shooting red notice
We're Ryan Reynolds and Gagadot. They were all waiting. But so now the power got knocked out and my gate wouldn't open
And my god, there was no way out. There was no way out now
I could have like according to some people why don't you just climb the gate and call an uber?
But the problem was every time I've tried uber in the past
The drivers the etiquette of you know, well, maybe you shouldn't speak and just be nice and quiet
It goes out the window. So every uber I had the drivers were like going bananas, right?
I was like, oh man, I don't want to call an uber. So I did what probably you would do is
I then ripped the gate off
100%
And I thank you for applauding that and then I threw it on the ground and
You just ripped it off the wall I
Start I pushed it push it push it so much so that it completely came off
It's hinges and I threw it down
And the reason why I took a picture is because my I called my security and I said listen, there's a gate down
Please we have to get this gate fixed. My whole family's inside the house
So he actually sent me that picture and he goes and he sent me a video of these of four guys trying to carry it
He texted me and he's like what
Was so funny, you know, I'd have done won't tell me
broken him apart out of
so that's it's different because you've got I think perhaps a different level of a different level of strength whereas mine I'd have
squeezed through and then
But
Different different level of foresight really it's different. It's different delicious level of deliciousness
Now, let's talk about your brilliant new movie red notice
It's been so long since there's been like a big comedy funny action movie
It's you Gal Gadot Ryan Reynolds or anyone doesn't know tell us what it's about who you play
It is about the world's most wanted art thief
It is about the second most wanted art thief in the world. It's about the most wanted art thief in the world
It's about the second most wanted art thief in the world. It's about the
best FBI FBI profiler on the planet and it's also about
The greatest conman you've never seen and you play in the film you play an FBI
Profiler. Yes. Do you think you'd make a good detective? Do you think you've got the skills? I do such a thing. Well
so in college
This may come as a surprise like my goal after college was actually to be in the FBI or the CIA
Like I really want to I really did. I had ambitions to do that at great
criminal law
Professors one guy in particular. His name is dr. Paul Cromwell. I'll never forget him and he always told me goes
You know if you have an ambition to be in the CIA
He goes I would highly recommend that you actually go to law school and you get your law degree
And I thought you know
My study habits are
So that's not a good
So then that's stop. Yeah one. Whoo
Yeah, and then that completely stopped and so then I went in a different direction, but I did so now that's to say that
I'm not saying I would be good at it, but that was a goal at one time
So I get to in my job now
I get to play FBI profilers and agents and things like that and you play them very very well
