2024 has been a busy yr for Dwayne Johnson! After starring within the second installment of the hit animated sequence Moana, the actor is ready to deliver a twist to the Vacation season together with her upcoming film Purple One alongside Chris Evans, J.Ok. Simmons, Lucy Liu, Kiernan Shipka, and extra.
Talking to Filmfare, the actor spoke about his love for Bollywood movies and recalled his expertise working with Priyanka Chopra Jonas whereas engaged on Baywatch. “I’ve labored with Priyanka previously and we had a good time filming that film [Baywatch]. And I really like the thought of constructing a Bollywood movie,” she stated.
Johnson additional shared that he would have conversations concerning the enlargement into India and the way huge of a market India is. “There’s Hollywood after which there’s Bollywood,” he emphasised. The Citadel actress portrayed the antagonist Victoria Leeds whereas Johnson, Zack Efron, Kelly Rohrbach, Alexandra Daddario, Jon Bass, and Ilfenesh Hadera performed the lifeguards.
The movie additionally marked considered one of Chopra Jonas’s first big-banner Hollywood films. Nonetheless, the actress ultimately turned a part of a number of huge franchises together with the hit sci-fi franchise Matrix within the 2021 movie The Matrix Resurrections.
Throughout a press interplay on the 2024 Purple Sea Worldwide Movie Competition, the actress spoke about her fascination with the sci-fi franchise rising up and the way it elevated her curiosity in filmmaking. “You may’t keep away from The Matrix, proper? It like, modified cinema for us,” she admitted.
“I bear in mind after I watched it, and I watched it in theater again within the day, and it was like magic nearly; it was like, ‘how can we create that in films?'” she added.
As for Johnson, he performs Santa’s head of safety, Callum Drift within the star-studded Vacation season movie Purple One. He reluctantly joins Chris Evans’ Jack O’Malley to assist monitor down and convey again Santa Claus (Simmons) earlier than Christmas. “After Santa Claus is kidnapped, the North Pole’s Head of Safety should crew up with a infamous hacker in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to avoid wasting Christmas,” the official synopsis reads.