The Rock and Dave Bautista have been very successful at transitioning from wrestling to movies, but they’re not the first.
The Big Picture “Wrestling is fake.” If you’re a fan of professional wrestling, that’s the criticism you have to endure the most. Sure, it’s scripted and pre-determined, but it’s also thrilling, and in the best moments, like watching a movie come to life.
The 1960s and' 70s had luchadors like El Santo in some pretty bad horror luchador films, but it was the 1980s when wrestlers in movies became mainstream. 1982’s Rocky III is the best early example, with the introduction of Hulk Hogan, playing an early opponent of Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa, a showboat named Thunderlips. This was before the rise of Hulkamania in WWF . A few years later, when Hogan’s rise took over professional wrestling, his acting career really took off.
A year later, one of wrestling’s best villains became the hero, when “Rowdy” Roddy Piper landed the lead role in John Carpenter's They Live. Earlier that year he had starred in the cult favorite, Hell Comes to Frogtown, but under Carpenter’s direction he thrived as the bubble gum-chewing, ass-kicking drifter battling aliens in this Reagan era satire.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Became the Biggest Actor on the Planet That changed with a certain eyebrow-raising Great One. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson rose to the top of the WWF with charisma and coolness on a level that had never been seen before. It led to him appearing in The Mummy Returns in 2001 as The Scorpion King, before reprising the role as the lead in The Scorpion King in 2002.
John Cena And Dave Bautista Showed That They Could Act Too One of those WWE Studios stars broke through. After “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and The Rock left WWE, John Cena became the face of the company. Early in his acting career he tried to become an action star with forgettable films like The Marine, but he didn’t have much success. Then came Trainwreck.
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