“I got banged up pretty good today in our scenes,” the actor said.
A sports elbow injury that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson sustained while filming his new wrestling drama, The Smashing Machine, was disclosed.
In the Benny Safdie-directed American biographical sports film, Johnson plays mixed martial artist and former wrestler Mark Kerr. Emily Blunt, a British actress, plays his on-screen wife Dawn Staples, and Oleksandr Usyk, a Ukrainian boxer who recently defeated Tyson Fury to become the world heavyweight champion.
He did, however, admit on Tuesday that the filming wasn’t without its challenges and that he was “banged up pretty good” during the combat scenes.
Johnson stated in an Instagram video, “You’re kind of going to get smashed up anytime your film is called The Smashing Machine.”
The 52-year-old then exclaimed, “Look at that sucker right there,” while displaying his injured right elbow. I appear to have a cantaloupe embedded in the inside of my elbow.
“I got banged up pretty good today in our scenes,” he said. That’s a lot of fluid, therefore there may be some soft tissue injury.
The former WWE star stated that before undergoing “any kind of MRI” examination, the fluid must be removed.
Johnson said, “The pain feels pretty good, but everything is good, it is what it is, until it isn’t.”
Then, with his back to the camera, he told a story about his late father, a bodybuilder and professional wrestler.
Johnson recalled: “A day without pain is like a day without sunshine, boy. That’s what my old man, God rest his soul, The Soulman, used to say. He was an old-school pro wrestler and bodybuilder.”
