Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's mom shares his embarrassing nickname

we have a great audience with the penis Tuesday morning it's full of service men and women they are here they are here for a very special reason and that has to do with the guess we're about to bring out right now he is one of the biggest stars in the world and he's here to talk about his new movie skyscraper Dwayne Johnson get on out here [Applause] thank you for being you last week here in Hong Kong you are the busiest man you're all over the place whirlwind world tour I just curious when you're in Hong Tom the Hong Kong it was like fandemonium over there so do you find it hard to fit in it's nothing to find it hard to fit in its I literally do not mean these are some of the pictures which you guys will see like I'm trying to walk down the streets and I kind of stick out a little bit I think it's the bag I'm carrying I'm not quite sure what it is but yeah I had a great time you know being over in Hong Kong and we started our tour in Beijing it's really just really phenomenal and the love was just incredible and what we're so grateful to go over there because it's it gets you know you kind of it's always the it's always the great reminder when you could go to an event and people are going absolutely crazy bananas yeah do you remember the last time you were anonymous I do is it was I think when I was about 22 23 honestly yeah about that time yes but it all goes out the window but I always tell people by the way like what's the alternative to that is I go back to nobody knowing who I was or me getting evicted when I was 15 I couldn't afford to pay the rent so you get no complaints out of meetings right and plus I stopped trying to fit in usually when I used to try and fit in I said just wear like a goofy hat oh there's the rock with the stupid hat everything was good to bring up the fanny I embrace the fanny pack we hit one thing I love about you you embrace your characters man and we hear that for every movie you wear a different scent for the character in skyscraper I do it was a sit for skyscraper ambition was a scent and yeah yeah you know I can't remember what it was I got into this weird thing years ago where I think it was for my very first movie Scorpion King when I first look into the business and I had a Cologne on and I remember the movie fortunately did pretty good and I was like oh well I'm gonna you know how that silly thing happens yes exactly so yes I can't remember what the name it was probably fanny pack that's smells great should we see you in action [Applause] [Music] thank you for the applause it's better than not applause that particular scene so something special happening happened during that day so on skyscraper skyscraper I feel a little special for a lot of reasons a week before shooting I put a lot of time and research and effort into this role in this movie looking for something to pull inspiration from and a week before shooting we find out that we're having our third baby girl and that was for me but for our writer director rawson thurber who you guys will meet shortly that particular scene where I'm holding up yeah that's Lauren she's doing great I love you I'll be home Wednesday night and so this particular scene where I'm holding my family up in the metaphor that what it actually means on screen but the metaphor that holding them up is she's trying to cross the bridge coming to me during that scene it was two o'clock in the morning our writer director rawson thurber said I'm so sorry I have to step away and he stepped away and he facetimed his wife as she gave birth to yeah yeah later the week you do so many great things and one thing another tradition is as also with the cologne is make-a-wish kids sure you spend an entire day we're on set and you do that for every movie and your father inspired you to do that well yeah you know my dad who was a former pro wrestler and he wound up granting one of the first ten wishes ever for make-a-wish and it was in 1983 and and I saw the impact when I was a kid of that so make-a-wish is very big part of my life and so yes for every movie there's generally a nice size list of languages to want to meet me and skyscraper we created this and we're actually gonna do it on Jungle Cruise too this year probably in about a month or so where I turn the set almost into like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and we have all these great partners have come in like a Microsoft and everybody who will come in and they'll set up all these fun events and activities so the kids come to our set and you know we often forget how cool our job is and when people come to sets they're looking around and these kids look around and you know we'll for example if one of the make wishes they want to ride in the Lamborghini will call up our partners at Lamborghini bring in Lamborghinis that is the best time so you know again we're in this position and you know any opportunity we kind of give back a lot of other big projects coming up looking for to team up with Kevin Hart again do you mind well I mean between us George you know yes teaming up with Kevin again for Jumanji we'll start shooting that as of now anywhere I'm shooting now I'm gonna get Jungle Cruise now based off the beautiful co-star is the lovely and talented Emily Blunt who has married what happens coming out Christmas and we're also doing the fat severe spell [Music] [Applause] face off my character and Jason Statham's character and we just our main villain will now be a drizzle [Applause] okay you know you're gonna run for president you we talked about that right but it's all your your mom's here I love mama [Music] the way you were growing up when you were growing up your mom your parents called you DUII yes and you have a lot of a lot of nicknames Dewey yes yes dewdrops when he was a pebble he was dewdrops and then from there it was so what are your kids call you I make them call me sir no I mean they call me Dad and daddy and you know it's the best way out of his 16 year old daughter Simone let's see two and a half year old jazzy and four month old almost four baby TA yes she bawled 16 she accomplished a lot herself but you think she'll follow in your footsteps well yes the crazy thing about my daughter Simone is she's she's so smart we're all so proud of her she's going into her senior year she signed with IMG and there's a model there she is right there she was Golden Globes ambassador with me mad at Golden Globes Simone is working so hard and she and her work has already started she wants to be a WWE wrestler [Music] look I love that idea and I think you know that's why I just we had this big conversation she came with me to Hong Kong in Beijing and I said honey whatever your passion is I support that and wrestling was good to me I started my career in Madison Square Garden so yeah bring it on she's gonna be a champ [Applause] you okay with that Graham I lay the smackdown [Applause] we started with du/dr vapor is in theaters this Friday well hey there 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Length: 11min 1sec (661 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 10 2018