![]() “I love every rock and bump that I’ve hit along the way and I’m sure I’ve got a couple more coming. “It hasn’t been a perfect journey, but I wouldn’t change the journey I’ve taken for the world,” he says. Now the 36-year-old is one of the most bankable comedians working today. Years of standup comedy, led to parts in hits like Ride Along 1 and 2, The Wedding Ringer and Get Hard. “At the beginning, a lot of television networks gave me the firm hand to the chest and told me, ‘No,’ ” Hart says. “You’ve got the biggest comedic star on the planet he’s a movie star, comedy star - all these things - and for him to be cool with all the jokes going to my character … it’s awesome,” Johnson says.īoth actors have taken the long road to Hollywood stardom. Johnson is known for his action chops, but in Central Intelligence Bob Stone gets most of the film’s laughs. ![]() “The overall message we’re giving in this film is, regardless of who you are or what you are, be happy with that person,” Hart says. A lot of times people are not quite happy with the things they got around them and oftentimes it’s much later that something can happen in your life that lets you know, ‘S-, I got it pretty good.’ ” “I think what’s interesting for Kevin’s character is he goes from being the man in high school and then 10, 20 years later he’s wishing he was something else. “I think your high school years are very defining,” Johnson says. “This was fast, it was literally Day 1, handshake, happy to be here, let’s get to it.”Ĭentral Intelligence is a comedy, but it poses a serious question between the jokes: Who did you want to be as a teenager and who did you become as an adult. “When you click with someone it’s instant,” Hart adds. When you come to the set, you see he embraces his role.” That’s the one thing that jumped out at me - Kevin’s ambition. The great thing about Kevin is, he comes to set every day, ready to work, ready to put in the time, but also there’s a real drive to do well and succeed and step up to the plate and swing for the fences. “Every now and then you get put in a movie with someone who you like on-screen and you think you got a shot at creating something good that people are going to like. “You get lucky every once in awhile,” Johnson says with a smile. The chemistry between them both on film and in person is undeniable (during our interview, Hart was showing Johnson how to SnapChat, and before a press conference earlier in the day they snapped selfies for Instagram). “That’ll come in Part 2,” Johnson chuckles. “Wait, do we ever go in the fanny pack? I don’t think we ever reveal what’s inside the fanny pack.” Hart pauses for a moment, looking puzzled. “I was like, ‘You think I could have a pocket protector or something?’ ” “It got to the point where the fanny pack was so cool, I was looking for things for Calvin,” Hart says. Meanwhile, Joyner is a straight-laced accountant with his glory days firmly in the rearview. While Bob may have shed the weight, his lingo and outfit (the fanny pack and jorts) are straight out of the ’90s. In the upcoming action-comedy, Johnson plays Bob Stone, a CIA spy who was bullied in high school and nicknamed “Fat Robbie.” Now a lethal agent, Stone has to recruit what was once the coolest kid in class (Calvin “Golden Jet” Joyner, played by Hart) to try and save the world on the eve of their high school reunion. You found that and posted that? That’s brilliant, dude,” Johnson says. “That s- went viral because of that picture. ![]() When I mention that it was in our newspaper archive, and that Johnson had been a SUNshine Boy once upon a time, the 44-year-old action star breaks into a grin. “Did you Google ‘Rock’ and ‘fanny pack’?” “How did you guys find that?” Hart says alongside Johnson in a Manhattan hotel. Jim Slotek was doing the interview when I sent him the photo. The Sun photo, which captured a ’90s-era Johnson posing with a gold chain, turtleneck and mom jeans, went viral while he was doing the press rounds for Hercules. “It was a brilliant idea, and it was mine,” Johnson tells Postmedia Network in an exclusive Canadian print interview. NEW YORK - Dwayne Johnson had a light bulb go off just before he started filming Central Intelligence, his new buddy comedy with Kevin Hart and it harkened back to his iconic SUNshine Boy photo for the Sun.
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