Dwayne Johnson breaks down at Venice premiere

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, the erstwhile prima of American wrestling (WWE), aged 53, wept connected Tuesday nighttime aft his movie The Smashing Machine received a fifteen-minute lasting ovation astatine the Venice Film Festival. This is 1 of the longest applauses successful the hallway this year, and neither the manager of the film, Benny Safdie, nor the pb histrion Emily Blunt hid their emotions.

The movie follows the beingness of erstwhile amateur wrestler and MMA combatant Mark Ker, and Dwayne showed a wholly caller broadside successful his relation – melodramatic and artistically demanding. 

Emily Blunt plays the relation of Mark's woman Don Staples, portion the movie besides features celebrated names from the martial arts satellite specified arsenic Ryan Bader, Bass Rutten and Oleksandr Usyk. The peculiar prima of the movie is Satoshi Ishii, who plays PRIDE fable Enson Inoue, the antheral Ker defeated successful the 2000 Grand Prix.

During the lasting ovation, Safdie hugged each the main actors and himself cried tears of joyousness astatine the audience's reception. "This is simply a infinitesimal that is worthy everything we invested successful the film," said the director.

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This relation represents a important departure from Dwayne Johnson's emblematic enactment movies. He emphasized however overmuch the task provided him with a long-desired creator challenge: 

"In Hollywood, everything often boils down to the contention for occurrence astatine the container office. I've made specified films excessively - immoderate were excellent, immoderate little successful. But the question kept ringing successful my head: What if there's thing more? This movie was my reply to that question."

At the bosom of The Smashing Machine – Life successful the Ring is the beingness communicative of Mark Kerr, an MMA legend, an icon from the merciless beginnings of the UFC. 

The movie shows not lone sporting successes, but besides the conflict with idiosyncratic demons, the unit of winning and the hunt for emotion and relationship successful the astir aggravated play of one's career. Ker personally attended the premiere successful Venice, and his absorption was conscionable arsenic affectional arsenic the audience's.

The biographical play The Smashing Machine - Life successful the Ring arrives successful home cinemas connected October 2, distributed by Blitz Film, and is expected to deed the assemblage arsenic hard successful the bosom and successful the ring.