Dwayne Johnson was asked to change name for Hollywood career? Deets inside
India TV NewsDwayne Johnson was asked to change name for Hollywood career? Deets inside Hollywood star Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson was ordered to lose weight, drop his stage name and stop talking about wrestling if he wanted to make it in Hollywood. Hollywood star Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson was ordered to lose weight, drop his stage name and stop talking about wrestling if he wanted to make it in Hollywood. The 'Fast and the Furious' star shot to fame in the mid-1990s as a regular performer with the World Wrestling Federation adopting the name 'The Rock' and becoming one of the franchise's most recognisable wrestlers before making a crossover to movies with a role as the Scorpion King in 2001's 'The Mummy Returns', reports femalefirst.co.uk. Johnson went on to land his first leading role, reprising his Scorpion King character for a self-titled 2002 spin-off and his Hollywood career took off.
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