Talking about bringing it back home, we cannot gloss over a thing that really connects you back to your culture and grandfather and singing, and that is Moana, the first installment of which came out in 2016 and the second in 2024, with a live-action version coming next year.
Playing Maui has been the gift of a lifetime. Growing up as a Samoan — half Samoan and half black — in Samoan culture, Polynesian culture? We’re proud people. Proud of our culture. And what Moana has represented is a really awesome global embrace of Polynesian culture, our values and our qualities and our pride and our mana. Today’s Tuesday. Just this past Friday, around 8:00 pm, we officially wrapped the live-action version of Moana, so we can’t wait. This upcoming summer, you guys will see live-action Moana , and it’s going to be pretty cool. I spent an entire week shooting “You’re Welcome,” and the singing and the choreography is crazy. [Students whoop with excitement, urging him to sing it.] No, no, no, you’re not ready for that. No, you’re not ready. [Johnson sings “You’re Welcome” and the students go wild.]
Dwayne’s done. It took 5-6 films to realize he can only do one character.
That wouldn’t even be a bad thing if he wasn’t so obsessed with his “brand” and if producers didnt ride his dick so hard (like he should never have been accepted as Black Adam by the movie’s makers.)
Their are plenty of actors who can only do ‘one character’ who are still delightful to watch because they tend to take roles where that character archetype works.