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Dwayne ’The Rock’ Johnson has spoken out about the homophobic attitudes of “influential folks” in Hollywood in response to him playing a gay character.
Johnson made the comments during an Interview with former Out editor Jeffrey R Epstein as the pair discussed Johnson’s cover and interview in the magazine in to promote his crime-comedy film Be Cool.
Johnson, who played an openly gay man named Eliot in the film, was one of his earliest film appearances.
Speaking with Epstein, Johnson opened up about the experience and highlighted the attitudes in Hollywood toward LGBTQ+ representation.
Johnson, who is known as an ally to the community, revealed that he was advised to avoid playing gay characters as it could “ruin” his chances of landing more prominent roles in the future.
“I was told back then (by a few influential folks) that playing a gay male would ‘ruin my career.’”
“I said, ‘hold my tequila and f**k off.’ Nicely, of course.”
Despite the warnings after his role in Be Cool, Johnson would later star in a wide
Dwayne Johnson is showing support for LGBTQ fans and sharing the toxicity Hollywood had around gay representation.
The conversation started with Out Magazine’s 30th anniversary. On Twitter, former editor Jeffrey R Epstein talked about his time with the magazine and some of his favorite cover stories. These included celebs like Ellen DeGeneres, James Van Der Beek, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
When it comes to Johnson, Epstein reminisced working with the star on a cover in At the time, Johnson was promoting his crime-comedy Be Cool. The film also included John Travolta, Danny Devito, and Uma Thurman. In the movie, Dwayne Johnson played a gay bodyguard named Elliot Wilhelm.
Remembering working with Johnson, Jeffrey R Epstein called the star a “class act” and said Johnson was “One of the nicest, smartest humans I contain ever interviewed.”
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After hearing about Epstein’s words, Dwayne Johnson shared his own thoughts on Twitter. Johnson responded to Epstein’s tweet by sharing his support for LGBTQ representati
Dwayne Johnson wasn't afraid to participate gay in the early days of his career — and he's still proud to verb everyone know about it!
Last month, Out celebrated its 30th anniversary, a milestone occasion for any print/online publication, especially one serving the LGBTQ+ community. To honor the occasion, former Out editor and D23 Inside Disney Podcast host Jeffrey R Epstein took to Twitter to share some of the favorite projects he wrote during his tenure.
One of those stories was a March profile and cover story on the man, the myth, and the legend himself, Dwayne Johnson, who was more popularly known back then by the nickname he used when he was a Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment personality, "The Rock."
The cover story was timed to the release of the crime-comedy film Be Cool, in which Johnson starred alongside an ensemble cast that included John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, Andre Benjamin, Steven Tyler, Robert Pastorelli, Christina Milian, Harvey Keitel, and Danny DeVito. The film was one of the earlier projects Johnson took on in h
The Rock Played a Gay Character Despite Being Told It Would ‘Ruin’ His Career for Good
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has been one of Hollywood's most prolific leading men for so elongated now, playing similar variations on the reliable, wise-cracking action hero type in Red Notice, Jungle Cruise, Hobbs & Shaw and beyond, that it's hard to remember the days when he was something of an outsider in the movie industry, breaking into acting with small roles after a stellar wrestling career in the WWE.
While of those early parts may have been a little shaky (that Scorpion King CGI in The Mummy Returns still induces nightmares today), Johnson was still hungry enough as a newcomer that he took on the kind of character work that we will likely never see from him again—including in Be Cool, the comedy sequel to Get Shorty based on Elmore Leonard's novel.
Johnson's character in Be Cool was Eliot, an openly gay Samoan man who worked as a bodyguard in the music industry and had dreams of being a star himself. While a lot of the humor surrounding Eliot involved the kind of