He is the highest paid Hollywood actor of all time, but it hasn’t always been that way for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
The 48-year-old Hollywood megastar, affectionately known as “The Rock”, has been a college NFL player, a wrestler, studied criminology and psychology and now makes a sweet living in showbiz.just announced Johnson as the highest-paid actor of all time for the second year in a row, the star raking in $US87.5 million from June 2019 to June 2020. The year before that he brought home $89.5 million.
“There are a lot of tourists that come into Waikiki, and there’s a lot of money. A lot of foreign money that comes in, and we were part of a theft ring that would target those groups. “I’ll never forget my mom crying, and I’ll never forget the thought I had, ‘Well, the only thing I can do is just go build my body’ because the men who were successful that I knew of, Stallone, Arnold, Bruce Willis … They were men of action.’’So act he did. An already fit Johnson accepted a full scholarship to the University of Miami to play football before moving to Canada to play for the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League as a linebacker.
He then realised the man he was watching on TV was Wally Buono, who coached and mentored him but ultimately had to crush his dreams and cut him from the team.
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