No wrestlers within the White House — but. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson mentioned that he’s dominated out a presidential run after years of hypothesis about his political ambitions.
“It’s off the table. Yes. It is off the table,” the Jungle Cruise actor, 50, mentioned throughout an interview with CBS Sunday Morning set to air on Sunday, October 9. “I will say this, ’cause it requires a B-side to this. I love our country and everyone in it. I also love being a daddy.”
The former WWE star shares daughters Jasmine, 6, and Tiana, 4, with spouse Lauren Hashian. He can be the daddy of daughter Simone, 21, whom he shares with ex-wife Dany Garcia.
The Ballers alum defined that his household is extra necessary to him than the rest, and any form of political profession would require him to spend an excessive amount of time away from them. “That’s the most important thing to me, is being a daddy, No. 1, especially during this time, this critical time in my daughters’ lives,” he informed CBS’ Tracy Smith. “Because I know what it was like to be on the road and be so busy that I was absent for a lot of years in my first daughter’s [life].”
The Black Adam star has been teasing a doable presidential run for years, broaching the subject after The Washington Post ran a 2016 op-ed suggesting that he’d make a superb candidate.
“A year ago, [the idea] started coming up more and more,” the Fast Five actor informed GQ in May 2017. “There was a real sense of earnestness, which made me go home and think, ‘Let me really rethink my answer and make sure I am giving an answer that is truthful and also respectful.’ I didn’t want to be flippant — ‘We’ll have three days off for a weekend! No taxes!’”
When requested whether or not he’d take into account working, the California native replied: “I think that it’s a real possibility.”
As lately as final yr, the Young Rock producer mentioned that he’d put out feelers to seek out out what an electoral marketing campaign could be like. “[I’ve done] a small amount of research and analysis to see where this comes from and to see what it could look like in the future,” he informed Vanity Fair in October 2021, including that “indicators are all very positive — in, for example, 2024, and in, for example, 2028.”
In the identical interview, nonetheless, he admitted that he doesn’t have a ton of experience relating to lawmaking. “You know, at the end of the day, I don’t know the first thing about politics,” he defined. “I don’t know the first thing about policy. I care deeply about our country. I care about every f–king American who bleeds red, and that’s all of them. And — there’s no delusion here — I may have some decent leadership qualities, but that doesn’t necessarily make me a great presidential candidate.”
For the time being, he’s centered on the discharge of Black Adam, which hits theaters on Friday, October 21. The film has been in improvement for greater than a decade, and Johnson himself pushed to make sure the DC character bought his personal standalone movie.
“When the first draft of the movie came to us, it was a combination of Black Adam and Shazam: two origin stories in one movie,” the motion star informed Vanity Fair in August. “Now that was the goal — so it wasn’t a complete surprise. But when I read that, I just knew in my gut, ‘We can’t make this movie like this. We would be doing Black Adam an incredible disservice.’”
Johnson “made a phone call,” and finally satisfied execs that the character wanted his personal movie. Shazam, in the meantime, made his debut in 2019’s Shazam! starring Zachary Levi.
Source: www.usmagazine.com