Even a superstar likeDwayne Johnsonhas his fair share of embarrassing childhood stories.
During a recent appearance onSunday Today with Willie Geist, the 49-year-old actor and retired wrestler revealed that he was often mistaken for a girl during his childhood days.
“I would say between the ages of 7 and 11, people thought that I was a little girl because I had really soft features and I had really soft Afro hair,” Johnson told host Willie Geist, 46.
TheJumani: The Next Levelactor even described one awkward encounter which took place on a school bus on his first day of fifth grade.
“I sit down next to a kid, and within 60 seconds, he goes, ‘Can I ask you something?'” he recalled. “I said, ‘Yeah.’ He goes, ‘Are you a boy or a girl?'”
Dwayne Johnson.Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images
Due to his father Rocky Johnson’s career as a professional wrestler, Johnson constantly moved around while he was growing up. By the time he entered high school, he had attended 13 different schools.
“I have had a Forrest Gump-ian childhood growing up,” Johnson told Geist. “Wrestling in the ’80s and in the ’70s was way different than it is today. A lot of the times, including my father, the wrestlers would live paycheck to paycheck.”
Dwayne Johnson.Today Show
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In January, Johnson said at NBC’s TCA press tour that creatingYoung Rockwith executive producer Nahnatchka Khan and writer Jeff Chiang was “incredibly complicated” and “tough.”
Dwayne Johnson with his parents.Michael Tran/FilmMagic
Despite their complex father-son relationship, Johnson said at the press tour that he believes his late dad “would have loved” the sitcom.
“He would have been so proud because for the first time, certainly in prime time, we are showcasing this world, that he and all of his brothers of the rings, so to speak, of those men in the ’70s and the ’80s that they gave their life to,” Johnson said.
source: people.com
