The Rock or Mr. Clean? That’s what Dwayne Johnson fans are thinking, a newly unveiled wax figure at the Musée Grevin in Paris is making fans think so.
When Grevin announced When the latest wax figure star appeared last week, netizens immediately began raving about the figure, which seemed to lack Johnson’s skin tone. In the comments, Instagram users noticed that The Rock statue was “lacking melanin” and missed his mixed black and Samoan heritage.
Comedian James Jefferson joked that Johnson looked like he was “soon to be part of the royal family” and fired shots at the team behind the wax figure. “We don’t want you to build characters in The Sims. There’s no arts and crafts,” he said. video Posted on Saturday.
She added: “I don’t look like him anymore.”
The actor and entrepreneur reshared a clip of Jefferson. on instagram, admitted he “gutted out laughing” at “The Circle” comedian’s joke. He then told fans that he was going to take matters into his own big brown hands.
“I’m going to have my team contact our friends at the Grevin Museum in Paris, France 🇫🇷 so that you can see my wax figure here with some important details and improvements. We can work on ‘updating’ – starting with skin color 🤣✊🏾 💪🏾,” the “Black Adam” star wrote on Sunday.
Grevin Museum unveils rock wax figure early this month.
Ahead of the big reveal, the museum gave the faithful a glimpse of its newest exhibit, including Johnson’s signature tattoo.
in video, the museum said it took artists 10 days to recreate the details of Johnson’s intricate body art. The video caption looks like this: “It took a lot of research to match The Rock’s work.” [tattoos] perfectly! ” It seems as if something else should have received the same amount of research.
Sculptor Stephen Barrett said: press release Her team “processed his face and eyes many times.
“The most difficult part of realism is bringing the statue to life from the visitor’s perspective,” he said.
In a statement shared with Monday’s Instagram Story, The Grevin Museum said its artists were “already working on improvements” to the recreation of The Rock.by BBCGrevin’s staff “worked all night” to correct the figure’s light skin tone, but museum director Yves Delromeau said it was the result of “a lighting problem.”
Delomeaux added that the actor “will see if there are any other modifications that need to be made.”
Johnson is the latest celebrity to get a bizarre wax figure of herself.Last year, Madame Tussauds turned heads with Zendaya wax figure, Fans thought it was someone other than the “Euphoria” star. In 2017, Tussauds botched a Beyoncé figure, but released a better figure in 2019 after an outcry.
In recent years, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj have had wax figures created in their likenesses, for better or for worse. “Black Panther” star Angela Bassett and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker are among the lucky few who have terrifyingly accurate lifelike figurines.
Times staff writer Nardine Saad contributed to this report.
