Dwayne Johnson on channeling Danny DeVito in Jumanji: The Next Level: “It was the wildest f**king thing”

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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle introduced body-swapping dynamics to the franchise; w🌳hilst J▨ack Black may have appeared as Jack Black, the actor was acting as an avatar for a teenage girl. Meanwhile, the brooding Dwayne Johnson portrayed a shy boy – a million miles away from the actor's confident public persona.

For the sequel, Jumanji: The Next Level, though, Johnson🌄's set to channel someone completely different: Danny DeVito. Yep, the 6ft 5in former wrestler is playing a character controlled by the 4🧜ft 10in septuagenarian. 

“It was the most surreal and wildest fucking thing to channel Danny DeVito,” exclaims Johnson, roaring with laughter as he speaks to our sister publication⭕ Total Film magazine. “When we decided to take a crack at a sequel, we sat around the table, and thought, ‘Well, one of the greatest joys of Jumanji is this idea that we have created these videogame avatars that, really, anyone can become.’ We could bring in any actor. So I told Jake [Kasdan], our director, ‘What if we took the idea of Cocoon with older people, and we apply tha🦋t here?’ And from there, the ideas just really started coming out.” 

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