Ripping his t-shirt open, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson covers the August 2015 issue of Esquire. Discussing his movie career, Johnson shares, “When I first came into acting, I had great opportunities to make a decent movie. I had a run there in 2005, ’06, ’07 — for a long time it was ‘Oh, he’s the best thing in the movie that’s not that good.’ I started questioning: Did I make the right choice? Should I have stayed in wrestling a bit longer? And then budgets became lower and lower and the pay kinda stayed the same and there wasn’t a lot of growth.”
Talking about his new HBO show Ballers, the 43 year-old actor exclaims, “You’ll get a kick out of it. The guy, Spencer Strasmore, is everything I dreamed of being. I dreamed of being an NFL player, All-Pro, making money, buying my parents a house, the whole thing, like he has done.” Read more on Esquire.com.