Dwayne Johnson Says ‘Real Masculinity’ Means Supporting Warrior Women as ‘Moana’ Surfs to CinemaCon

I support women. I can’t support a shot-for-shot remake of a modern Disney classic with horrible effects. I’ll rewatch the original.

As a father of daughters™

I haven’t really been paying any attention to this live action Moana abomination- mostly because I sincerely thought the awful screenshot of Dwayne dressed as a dime store Maui was either AI slop or some fan’s take on the idea. But the fact that this is real? The turnover from animated movie to needless live action remake seems to have zero actual delay anymore. I understand the original Moana came out a decade ago… but that’s still drastically faster than previous animation to live action abomination. The original is still perfect. So . . . Why?

I thought real masculinity was pumping your body full of designer steroids to gain the approval of others.

Look, we should absolutely support women. The Rock using a challenge of masculinity as a marketing ploy to get people to see a remake of a Disney movie, is a f****** hollow attempt at supporting women. Also, is it not real masculinity to support women who aren't warriors?

Moana don't surf, she sails.

why is everyone getting so angry in the comments lol

Dwayne Johnson doesn't know what real masculinity is. if he did he wouldn't have to have clauses in his movie contracts stating that his character can't lose a fight.

Read all the comments in here and tell me we don’t live in an era of hyper cynicism and negativity I don’t understand what everyone is angry about

He can say what he wants; I support whatever I see fit. And I don't see fit to support this and Disney's other nonsense.

Crazy that he has to say this because he knows a bunch of grown men are going to fling sexist vitriol at a literal children’s movie

I can't support an actor who plays the same character in his every movie

Dwayne Johnson has not said sincere thing in 30 years.

Everything this dude says now feels like it's been A-B tested by multiple PR teams.

I agree with the general statement. But I can't help but think of how phony The Rock is every time he speaks. I mean this is the guy who pretended to never have eaten In-n-Out, and put a plug for Black Adam in his tweet about the queen dying.

The irony of a man using women empowerment to sell tickets to a movie. How about just supporting women in general regardless of whether they are warriors.

His commitment to soulless marketing is amusing to me ngl

Live action Moana will make gobs of money; but it will not be due to it being good nor necessary.

Meh. I supported and enjoyed the animated ones. I have no interest in this live action movie.

That may be so, but I won't be supporting the movie.

Funny he makes this statement when there’s money to be made for himself

Says the guy who has his characters can't lose fights written into his contract...

They are phoning the remakes in for sure. Absolute low effort movies.

Real masculinity is letting your characters take the L instead of being a baby who has to win 100% of the time.

It also means not having clauses in your film contracts that you can’t lose a fight in fear of looking “weak”, so I’m not sure Dwayne knows what masculinity is. But then again, even a broken clock is right twice a day…

Certainly. Always good to have some lady who can kick ass. But letting them throw your previous costar under the bus over not having the correct blood quantum, who could play the role and had done nothing wrong, wasn't "masculine". It was greedy and cruel.

I love many of the animated Disney movies but I'm not supporting these obvious cash grabs and copyright extensions. Johnson is just saying that because he needs a hit movie.

So if we don't go to see it, we're not real men? Manipulate much, Dwayne. Oh, and f*** off.

I know he starred in the animated version but I don't know why they thought it was necessary to cast Dwayne and his stupid wig in the remake. There are plenty of Polynesian men who can actually sing who would have been great as a live action Maui.

DJ will say whatever it needs to sell his movie. Dude cares about nothing but his image & money.

He’s a mega celebrity. His opinion is irrelevant. He doesn’t live an average life. Go start a brand or something. Don’t tell me what a man is.

All this to promote a soulless live-action cashgrab of a remake of an animated classic that's not even 10 years old. Bravo Dwayne, may the change of hierarchy of power in the Disney Universe aid you.

Real masculinity doesn't include a legal contract that you can't lose on screen. Pathetic. https://www.imdb.com/news/ni65106428/

"real masculinity is pumping your hard earned cash at over priced movie theatres to see my dog shit acting" Get fucked, Dwayne.  Genuinely can't wait till he's out of the spotlight.

“Watch this movie or your sexist” bro, I liked the original, i really hate Disney live action remakes sorry my dude but no. I’d rather Disney go the opposite route and do 2d remakes. Use the CGI as a prototype to see if ppl like a story and then put in the work to hand animate the movie sketch by sketch if is worth the effort, not make a lazier longer shittier version with less art. But I guess wanting to see movies that don’t feel like cash grabs w bad cgi makes me hate women I guess.

Please stop acting.

Warrior woman movies have been around since the dawn of film.

That’s a great message

Whenever we get this type of talk before one of their live action remakes comes out, the movie is always bad. I really like the OG Moana movie, it's really good. This live action isn't necessary, the movie is just about to be 10 years old. I feel like whenever the actors start yappin' about politics, morals, or other mannerisms before the movie comes out it just cheapens the whole experience and is usually an indicator that they really don't or can't say much about the movie, or that they know the movie probably isn't good.

Good message, but sadly tied to the promotion of a movie, and a bad-looking DisneySlop live-action remake no less.

He just wants his check, which he’ll get more of the more he convinces people they’re helping a woman warrior. Tell me Rock, are you making more than Moana’s actress for the movie? If so, he better get to supporting the warrior

I always hope when they remake any animated film into live action, that the live action looses money. Here is a new idea. How about create a new IP instead of beating the old one to death.

I was hoping for another banger tweet like the one he gave tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth

Why is her hair so straight?

“Come see this soulless cash-grab remake or you’re not a real man.”

But will it make this soulless live action remake good tho?

That’s not the reason people are trashing this.

Ight. How about instead of changing the conditions of being a man so they arent toxic anymore we do even better and accept that that being a man isn't dependent on any conditions beyond being a man in of itself and that we do good things like supporting people simply because it's a decent thing to do, no need to bring our ballsacks into it.

The Dwayne says, "Watch my movie or you're not manly."

No one wants to see this cause we’re tired of the c**** live action remake infinite money glitch, not because we’re against supporting strong women.

I appreciate The Rock being a feminist icon, but I feel like the corporate greed that results in these live action remakes is kinda separate from the patriarchy.

Let's give this person the Pulitzer Prize immediately.

Dwayne Johnson is a sellout. I don’t care what he thinks real masculinity is.

I thought that real masculinity meant never losing a fight on camera?

I couldn’t be any less excited for live action Moana and I really liked the animated one.

The hierarchy of feminism universe is about to change

Moana is perfect no one needs this.

It’s literally the exact same Movie, without the cuteness. I’ll watch it in Halloween when it’s free on D+

This guy makes a living playing make believe, how do his opinions matter on anything?

"Real masculinity means watching my movie"

Then why is Dwayne a maga turd?

Real masculinity is not letting someone else define my own masculinity for me.

Except he choked a woman for insulting his father at a family wedding some 25 or so years ago. He also cheated on his ex-wife with his current wife. Her friends claim she admitted that he beat her on occasion as well. He also had k**** violent sex back in his younger days which included choking women. He is not the feminist hero people are trying to make him out to be.

Does “supporting warrior women” include equal pay for his co-star

Not burning down an entire island worth of land to buy up land c**** is also Real Masculinity

Great job weaponizing feminism to sell movie tickets, buddy.

“Real masculinity means me making money.”

Real masculinity isn't just voicing support for female led movies when you're in one. Real masculinity also isn't going on Faux News talking about "wokeness".

I’m sure MAGA will react with nothing but decency to this quote

Didn’t he shill for republicans?

And yet he hobnobs with the Saudi Arabian royalty. Please do not fall for his faux-feminism BS. 🤮

Oh so Hollywood’s going back to this type of marketing again?

Remember “The Rock” was MAGA and still is a “conservative” Very disturbing considering he has a daughter

That's great Dwayne, now time to go on Fox News and complain about Joe Biden again

Total nonsense. Real masculinity is being a leader, protector, and provider, taking action, and handling business. Supporting others is not part of it, nor is pretending to be someone you're not. That doesn't mean if a woman wants to be a warrior you should try to stop her, but supporting her in that is not part of being masculine.