Dwayne Johnson Told His Agents After ‘Scorpion King’ That ‘I Could Be Bigger’ Than Will Smith or George Clooney; They Doubted Him, So He Got New Agents
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Dwayne Johnson was headlining one family movie after another following the launch of his acting career with 2002’s “The Scorpion King.” He was successful, but he yearned for more.
A lot more. Johnson told his agents that he wanted to be bigger than Will Smith. When they expressed skepticism, he got rid of them.
As reported in Johnson’s new GQ cover story: “He surveyed the landscape, noted who was at the top of it. And he went to his agents and said, despite whatever recent setbacks he’d experienced, he had an idea, or simply an ambition: He wanted to have the career of George Clooney or Will Smith.
But bigger, perhaps, or better. When his agents seemed skeptical of this plan, he found new agents.” “That was the idea back then,” Johnson now told GQ looking back at his plan, admitting that he did think “I could be bigger” than Clooney and Smith. “And I mean that respectfully.
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