Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars in the upcoming San Andreas movie and he recently opened up about his experiences in making the film.
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Johnson plays Ray, a search and rescue helicopter pilot, in the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California and he's on a state-wide search to find his daughter after the disaster.
Johnson spoke to The Today Show about the experience of filming the movie.
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"I was really lucky to play a guy like this," Johnson said on the show. "I've had an opportunity in the past to play some pretty good guys who did some pretty good things, but this guy, honestly, is special. Being a first responder and a loving dad, and I felt like one of the coolest things about the character is he's so proficient at what he does. He saves people for a living, he flies and drives and everything in the face of disaster, but at the same time he's struggling. He's struggling with the relationship with his daughter. He's struggling with the relationship with his wife and I love that dichotomy."
Johnson's character also gets emotional during the movie, and the former WWE Champion said it was easy for him to cry in the film.
"It came -- and I don't wanna, not to lessen it -- but it came a bit easy," Johnson said. "Only because I was prepared. So, in the idea of -- look I felt like on so many levels, I know who this guy is. I'm a divorced man. I know what it's like to love my young 13-year-old daughter, but also struggle with the relationship and hopefully you're being a good dad. But the idea of losing my daughter and not being able to save her like we showcased in the movie, I mean in an instant, it brings you to tears. Regardless of how tough you think you are."
Johnson also spoke about the goals the production team and cast had heading into filming the movie.
"The goal was to make an epic movie and hopefully redefine and help elevate a genre that's a major genre -- the natural disaster genre, the disaster film genre," Johnson said. "But also we wanted to make sure we were anchoring it with something special, which was family."
Johnson can be seen in San Andreas when it is released a week from this Friday on May 29.
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