“Don’t kill Kylie Minogue”: Dwayne Johnson Begged Australian Icon Not Be Killed in $474M Movie Despite Asking for Gargantuan Salary for Just 58 Seconds of Screen Time

“Don’t kill Kylie Minogue”: Dwayne Johnson Begged Australian Icon Not Be Killed in $474M Movie Despite Asking for Gargantuan Salary for Just 58 Seconds of Screen Time
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Dwayne Johnson joined mainstream fame as a wrestler in WWE and later defected to Hollywood to further boost his career, which turned out to be the most important decision of his life. As, currently, Johnson is living a very posh and lavish life being branded as one of the most successful and richest Hollywood celebrities of all time. Furthermore, his fan base and fan-following are in the hundreds of millions.

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Until now Dwayne Johnson has starred in many blockbuster movies and franchises and was also one of the highest-bankable stars in Hollywood, but his recent venture has not been quite successful and he is certainly aiming for a comeback. Johnson’s one of the blockbuster movies was San Andreas and it was a massive success after its release, garnering quite the attention from different parts of the world.

Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Johnson

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Dwayne Johnson’s Request to Not Kill Kylie Minogue

 Kylie Minogue in San Andreas
Kylie Minogue in San Andreas

Dwayne Johnson is undoubtedly one of the most successful actors of today’s generation with multiple blockbuster movies and franchises under his belt. Furthermore, he has the support of millions of fans from all over the world as he was a former WWE athlete which greatly boosted his career when he shifted to the entertainment industry after dominating WWE. Johnson was also the highest-paid actor in Hollywood for quite some time but was later overtaken by Tom Cruise, so it is obvious that the bodybuilder is working his bones off to regain the position of being the highest-paid actor in the world.

Dwayne Johnson in San Andreas
Dwayne Johnson in San Andreas

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“Brad Peyton, the director, I told him, ‘Don’t kill Kylie.’ That was my thing.”

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Now we all know that Australians are quite sensitive to their culture and their people. In the movie San Andreas, director Brad Payton had initially planned to kill Kylie Minogue who was an Australian national treasure at that time. And knowing that this would cause quite some rift among the general public, Dwayne Johnson requested Director Payton to keep her alive to avoid complications. Johnson revealed while speaking on an Australian talk show The Project, that he had to clear out the complications as the director wanted to kill Minogue and Johnson wanted to keep her alive to avoid Assuie’s fingers pointed at them.

Dwayne Johnson’s San Andreas, a Warner Bros. Success

Dwayne Johnson has transformed both movies and scripts into blockbusters and fans absolutely love him for it, moreover, his ever-loyal fans have helped him greatly over the years and have supported him through thick and thin. The previous decade was undoubtedly his most successful one with multiple consecutive box office majors, one of them being San Andreas, which earned quite the reaction as it became Warner Bros.’s highest-grossing film of 2015 and landed itself within the fourteen highest-grossing movies worldwide. It accumulated over $473.9 million with a budget of $110 million.

Behind the Scenes from the sets of Red One
Behind the scenes from the sets of Red One

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In recent years, Dwayne Johnson has faced some severe criticism as his ventures have brought him nothing but failure. His recent couple of movies were complete box office failures, even teaming up with DC Studios could not change that, hence currently, Johnson is working on his project, a movie that he is coming up with on his own. Red One will be completely action-packed and will have a Christmas theme, moreover, the movie will have many famed actors such as Chris Evans, J.K. Simmons, and many others. Johnson has promised that the movie will be a complete blockbuster and has urged us to look forward to it.

Red One premieres in December 2023.

Source: Mirror
Rajdeep Majumder

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