Dwayne Johnson Gets Emotional About His 'Smashing Machine' Transformation _ The Graham Norton Show

You know, that idea of Dwayne Johnson disappearing into any role, you kind of think, oh, how can you transform? But you do. And it's not just the physical thing, because it's obviously this hair, but other things went on. It was about 22 prosthetics. We had Kazu Heroes, our Oscar-winning prosthetic artist, and he helped me transform. There was also vocal transformation too. But the idea, I think, of transforming for me was something that I didn't know that that was for me. And I wanted to do that, because a lot of times in the movies that I've made in the past, the bigger movies, they're big and they're fun, and I've liked them from Jumanji to Moana. And I'll go back to those, but there was something about this opportunity where there was a voice behind my ribcage that was just telling me, right? And I'd shared this with Emily for years. It's gnawing at my gut to do more and challenge myself and grow and do something where I'm not chasing box office, but I'm doing it for me. And it wound up being the greatest, most gratifying thing. And I've said this before, and I mean it, Smashing Machine changed my life.