Dwayne Johnson Calls ‘Red One’ Set Controversy “Ridiculous” – But, Yes, He Sometimes Pees In Bottles

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Talk about a tempest in a teapot, or some kind of pot anyway. In a GQ cover story, Dwayne Johnson addresses claims made in a report from The Wrap that he was often late to set during filming of the new holiday movie Red One and that he sometimes used water bottles as, well, makeshift urinals. “Yeah,” Johnson told GQ about peeing in water bottles to save time. “That happens…I’ve said a thousand times: ‘Hey, I’m here.

Come and ask me. And I’ll tell you the truth.’” On a more serious note, The Wrap report suggested that Johnson’s frequent tardiness to set – sometimes as much as eight hours – had driven the Red One budget up by a big $250 million. “Yeah, that happens too,” Johnson says. “But not that amount, by the way.

That was a bananas amount. That’s crazy. Ridiculous.” Johnson called the controversy “bullshit.” In the GQ piece, Red One director Jake Kasdan defends Johnson. “[Dwayne] never missed a day of work ever,” Kasdan says. “He has a lot going on.

He can be late sometimes, but such is Hollywood — that’s the case with everybody. Honestly, I’ve made three big movies with him.