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In 2013, Dwayne Johnson-obsessed comic Nick Mundy spent 3 days in Miami at a press junket for Michael Bay‘s Ache & Acquire. He stumbled from interview to interview, awkwardly peppering stars like Ken Jeong and Anthony Mackie with questions on running with The Rock.
When he after all met Johnson, he spent maximum of his short time fawning over the motion megastar as a substitute of asking questions.
“The ones have been the worst interviews I’ve ever noticed,” a Paramount govt remarked after staring at Mundy paintings.
However Mundy’s horrible interviews have been all an act. Display screen Junkies packaged the interview as “Superfan of The Rock Does Worst Interview Ever” and the video racked up 462,000 perspectives. Extra strangely, Johnson asked Mundy when it got here time for the Hercules junket, and extra not too long ago, the Livid 7 press excursion.
“It began off as a shaggy dog story. In the future I used to be similar to, ‘I’m going to will myself to turn into just right pals with The Rock,’ ” Mundy tells The Hollywood Reporter. “In actual lifestyles, I’m on no account just right pals with The Rock, however we tweet to one another and it’s high-quality.”
Within the Hercules video, Johnson referred to as up individuals who had wronged Mundy prior to now (it was once all actual), whilst all the way through the Livid 7 presser, Mundy shared a Woman and the Tramp second with him (involving a banana, now not a spaghetti).
Johnson’s PR staff — in addition to the Paramount exec who referred to as Mundy’s interview horrible — are on board with the shaggy dog story now that they get it.
“The Rock is a brilliant improviser,” says Mundy. “I don’t have to try this a lot paintings. I simply provide him a premise of the sport, and he simply is going off and does it, and I’m simply sitting there attempting to not make goofy faces.”
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