8B • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THIS & THAT
WEDNESDAY,APRIL17,2002
WEATHER FORECAST
SOURCE: TIM BUSH DEPARTMENT OF ATMOSTSPHEREIC SCIENCES. KUJHWEATHER@KU.EDU
LEWIS
BY THOMAS AND MOZLEY
The Rock rolls into movie ring
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — To understand The Rock, you have to break him into three pieces.
First there's his World Wrestling Federation persona, also nicknamed "The People's Champ," a body-slamming muscleman known for raising his eyebrow suggestively and snarling wisecracks that whip crowds of thousands into a frenzy.
Then there's Dwayne Johnson, who turns 30 in May, a former college football player who laughs easily, plays acoustic guitar and dotes on his wife of four years and their daughter.
car and then laughs.
"I always say that The Rock is
just Dwayne Johnson with the volume turned up to its highest level," he said. "As wild and as loud and as passionate as my fans get, I feed off that same energy."
Finally, there's The Scorpion King, his ancient warrior character from The Mummy Returns, whose martial-arts swordplay and Conan the Barbarian-style brawn inspired Universal Pictures to gamble on a spin-off film.
The Scorpion King represents the future of The Rock, a chance to break away from the bonewracking showmanship of the WWF and move into films where at least you get a stunt double some of the time.
"A lot of people at this point
say, 'Man, you've already done everything in wrestling,' but it's not easy to give up what you love," he said. "My role will lessen — it's already lessened — but there's nothing better than the love of a live audience."
Although his father, Rocky Johnson, and grandfather Peter Maivia both were pro wrestlers. Johnson had planned to be a football star. He became a defensive tackle at the University of Miami and graduated with a degree in criminology, but injuries kept him out of the NFL.
That's when he adopted the wrestling pseudonym Rocky Maivia, which he eventually shortened to The Rock.
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