Fans cringe at ‘Smashing Machine’ long standing ovation, Emily Blunt ’embarrassed’ |VIral Press Tour
Do you smell what The Rock is cooking? Must be onions. After he was brought to tears during the 15-minute standing ovation for the smashing machine at the Venice Film Festival. Now Dwayne the Rock Johnson is hitting the press trail hard and he will not shut up about the standing O. 5 minutes and 6 minutes and yeah, 10 minutes and I’m thinking, God, how do I are we going to get a minute? That place, I have chills, erupted for 15 and 1/2 minutes and before the credits even rolled and the lights come on and I’m crying. I’m trying to clear my tears away. To transform into MMA fighter Mark Kerr, The Rock put on 30 lbs of muscle and wore 22 prosthetics. So, of course, there’s early Oscar buzz, but it seems all anyone wants to talk about is that damn standing ovation. Michael Strahan on GMA. We’ve never seen you in a role like this and and 15minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival. And again on Entertainment Tonight, 15 minutes of a standing ovation, Kevin. It was the most surreal thing that I had experienced. You know what they say, it’s not the size of the ovation, it’s the motion of the ocean. At least The Rock’s co-star Emily Blunt bluntly admitted on the Graham Norton show that she was weirded out by the whole thing. It’s a long time for people to be clapping and I start to get embarrassed. Yeah. Started making jokes cuz I was like, “Oh god, this is so much.” To remain kind of humble and grateful for 15 minutes is quite hard. Yeah, it’s hard. Thank you so much. Meanwhile, critics have slammed the overly indulgent Hollywood trend on Tik Tok. Who gets the longest standing ovation? It’s a competition at this point. Clapping for more than 30 seconds will never make sense to me. Like, doesn’t it get awkward? Anything over three minutes seems forced. I’m so over these performative standing ovations. Even crazier, the studio behind the Oscar worthy movie A24 claims it wasn’t just 15 minutes, it was 16. Everyone needs to calm down and sit down.
“The Smashing Machine” is getting early Oscar buzz for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. At first, fans were shocked by the 53-year-old actor’s slimmed-down physique. But now, from “Fallon” to “GMA,” all anyone wants to talk about is the 15-minute standing ovation the biopic received at the Venice Film Festival. Meanwhile on A24’s TikTok page, fans on TikTok mocked the over-the-top Hollywood trend. Here are the biggest viral moments from “The Smashing Machine” press tour and what The Rock’s co-star Emily Blunt had to say about the big O.
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4 Comments
His fake tears makes this nonsense even MORE cringe!!!
this is great
I'm not the biggest fan of The Rock. But FFS give him a break. The guy once played a tooth fairy. Let him enjoy this.
If the media is starting to hate him then it's time for me to start liking him. He's obviously going against the status quo.