“In my opinion, there are three steps to success. That is to start, work harder than everyone else and believe in yourself,” actor Johnson told Fortune.

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Forbes magazine recently published a list of actors and celebrities with the highest salaries in the world and the name Dwayne Johnson immediately attracted everyone’s attention.

Accordingly, this actor nicknamed “The Rock” had an income of 124 million USD in the past year, double the figure of 65 million USD the previous year and also the highest amount in the history of statistics. Forbes over the past 20 years.

What few people know is that Johnson had to go through a very difficult life before achieving the glory he has today. There was a time when actor The Rock had to compete in wrestling performances in markets just to earn 40 USD/match. Even in 1995, when Johnson was released from the Canadian Football League, he only had $7 in his pocket.

So how can this muscular man who is 1m96 tall and weighs 118kg overcome his difficulties?

When dreams collapse

Born in California in 1972, Dwayne Douglas Johnson inherited sports blood from his family. His father and grandfather were both famous professional wrestlers. Ever since he was in school, Johnson has been noticed by clubs and coaches thanks to his tall, muscular body.

At the end of high school, Johnson was offered full scholarships by countless universities to join their football teams and he finally decided to attend the University of Miami. After winning the championship for the team in 1991, Johnson suffered a serious injury and was replaced from the team.

Graduating in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in criminology and psychology, Johnson had little choice but to continue his playing career. However, the injury caused his performance to decline and the team cut him from his main playing position 2 months before the professional tournament took place.

Failing with his dream of playing football, Johnson almost lost his spirit and sat indoors for 2 weeks just watching TV. At this time, he only had 7 USD in his wallet and was almost at the bottom of society.

Fortunately, thanks to the encouragement of his relatives, Johnson regained his spirit and embarked on a new career: a wrestler.

Because his father and grandfather were famous wrestlers, Johnson received very good training from them before officially entering this extreme sport. Initially, it was small matches at the market with only a few dozen dollars until professional tournaments.

Johnson when he was still playing rugby

When he entered the professional wrestling environment, at first the audience did not like Johnson very much because of his overly cheerful personality. The year 1997 was not a very happy period for “the Rock” when the stands were full of mocking words like “Go to hell Rocky (Johnson’s nickname at that time)” or “Loss Rocky”.

Only at the end of the 1998 season did Johnson win the hearts of the American audience and become famous after a series of victories at professional wrestling tournaments.

From 1999 until now, The Rock’s reputation in the American wrestling industry has been maintained and developed. He was honored as one of the legendary wrestlers in the history of American wrestling and was praised by many other legends such as Hulk Hogan and John Cena.

In the history of this sport, The Rock is the person who has maintained his popularity the longest and held the championship belt the longest. Many of his matches reached records for the number of viewers and ratings on television.

It seemed like Johnson’s dream of playing football had been replaced by wrestling. However, The Rock continued to move into cinema and achieved success even more than expected.

Heir to “The Destroyer”

The 1980s and 1990s were the golden age of muscular actors. Superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger is famous for the movie series “The Terminator” and Sylvester Stallone has “Rambo” and “Rocky”. However, at the present time, the face representing muscle must be Johnson.

One interesting thing is that many wrestlers or boxers have tried to branch out into the movie industry like John Cena or Mike Tyson, but they hardly had much success. The reason is very simple, Johnson understands that to be successful, you need to sweat blood and sweat and he really tries a lot even though he has achieved a lot of success and fame.

Johnson in the movie “The Scorpion King”

In fact, since 1999, The Rock has participated in a number of small acting projects, but he only really became known when he played a supporting role in the movie “The Mummy Return” in 2001 as the king. Scorpion.

Since then, Johnson has caught the eye of many directors and participated in a series of hit movies such as “Doom”, “Hercules”, “Fast and Furious”…

With his current popularity, it is not difficult to understand that The Rock received up to 22 million USD in cash for the movie “Red Notice” which will be released in theaters in 2020, plus a percentage of revenue, meaning it can be sold every time. For 25 million USD ticket price, you will receive an additional 1 million USD.

To achieve such success, The Rock had to work very hard. At the age of 45, Johnson still regularly wakes up at 5 a.m. and practices at least 2 hours a day. His work attitude is also very serious, even leading to conflicts with the main actor Vin Diesel in “Fasst and Furious” when he thought that this actor had a star attitude and did not respect the crew. make movies.

During his years in movies, audiences could see Johnson appear in an average of 2-3 movies a year, participate in television shows or run his own film company. When this movie wrapped, the audience saw him preparing for his next movie projects. Right after the release of Skyscraper, the superhero movie Black Adam will hit theaters in 2019 and the spin-off “Fast and Furious” starring Jason Statham will also hit theaters the same year.

“In my opinion, there are three steps to success. That is to start, work harder than everyone else and believe in yourself,” actor Johnson told Fortune.

Johnson in the movie “Hercules”

Obviously, Johnson’s enthusiastic working attitude has greatly contributed to the success of this muscular actor. Although his acting is still criticized for being monotonous, no filmmaker can blame a person who works as hard as The Rock.

Although he also started with a tall and muscular image like his predecessors Arnold or Stallone, the successor to “The Terminator” knows how to take risks and expand his role. Not only is he good at fighting, he also participates in many psychological, emotional, comedic films… to prove his acting ability.

Although experts have not yet appreciated Johnson’s acting ability, the audience cannot help but love a muscular actor with a friendly smile on his face.

Talking about his dream, Johnson once talked about the Oscar film award, and he also joked that he would run for president of the United States. However, no matter what that dream is, the fact that the poor actor rose from 7 USD in his pocket, took advantage of every opportunity, and worked hard to achieve success like Johnson is still an example worth learning for everyone. .

“I admit that I had a very rebellious career. I never listened to anyone’s advice. I just did what I wanted at the time,” Dwayne Johnson said about his own success experience.

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