In 2013, Dwayne Johnson-obsessed comic Nick Mundy spent 3 days in Miami at a press junket for Michael Bay‘s Ache & Achieve. He stumbled from interview to interview, awkwardly peppering stars like Ken Jeong and Anthony Mackie with questions on operating with The Rock.
When he in any case met Johnson, he spent maximum of his little while fawning over the motion superstar as a substitute of asking questions.
“The ones have been the worst interviews I’ve ever observed,” a Paramount government remarked after looking at Mundy paintings.
However Mundy’s horrible interviews have been all an act. Display Junkies packaged the interview as “Superfan of The Rock Does Worst Interview Ever” and the video racked up 462,000 perspectives. Extra unusually, Johnson asked Mundy when it got here time for the Hercules junket, and extra lately, the Livid 7 press excursion.
“It began off as a funny story. At some point I used to be similar to, ‘I’m going to will myself to turn out to be excellent buddies with The Rock,’ ” Mundy tells The Hollywood Reporter. “In actual existence, I’m not at all excellent buddies with The Rock, however we tweet to one another and it’s nice.”
Within the Hercules video, Johnson known as up individuals who had wronged Mundy prior to now (it was once all actual), whilst all 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 known as Mundy’s interview horrible — are on board with the funny 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 making an attempt to not make goofy faces.”
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