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son, for one. That guy is just
the epitome of charm. In other
words, this could be a terrible,
terrible movie if it starred a runof-the-mill action star. But, Johnson is just so charming (there’s
that word again), I couldn’t help
but think, I really hope this nice
man gets his son back. This is the
kind of role that Mel Gibson used
to make good.

STEVE DIETL/ © 2012 SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT, LLC.

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If you had to guess “yes” or “no” and
your life depended on getting the answer correct, what would your answer
be to the question, “Will The Rock
be nominated for an Oscar sometime
in the next 15 years?” My answer
would be, “What kind of demented soul would attach a human being’s life to such a trivial
question?” And, “I refuse to play
such a twisted game.”

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Your life doesn’t depend on the
answer, but what would the
answer be to the question, “Will The
Rock be nominated for an Oscar sometime in the next 15 years?” Make it
20 years, and I will say that it’s at
least in the realm of possibility.

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What’s the single most ridiculous thing to happen in Snitch?
See, that’s the thing. Other than
the fact that John is out there infiltrating a drug gang in the first
place, Snitch goes with the “less
is more” philosophy. We don’t
even see The Rock fire a gun until
the last 15 minutes of the movie,
and even then it’s a shotgun fired
almost blindly in self-defense.
For Silver Linings Playbook you were
blurbed in a New York Times ad having said
the absolutely riveting fact that, “Robert
De Niro hasn’t won an Oscar in 32 years.”
Can you give an equally mind-blowing factblurb for Snitch? “Dwayne
Johnson also wrestles.”

HUFFINGTON
03.03.13

Rafi Gavron
(center)
as Jason
Collins, John
Matthews’
incarcerated
son.