Johnson did take his prep for singing You're Welcome, the song written by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, very seriously. He practiced the song every free moment for months — on the set, in the gym, in the Rock truck. The results speak for themselves in the show-stopping Moana number.
And yes, that's really Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson singing on the track. PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive voices Maui, the demigod who, according to the song, is pretty much responsible for everything on earth — from the tides to the sunshine the days itself.
How much did The Rock make for Moana? For 2016's Moana, The Rock was reportedly paid $21 million just for his voice acting in the film plus an additional $1 million for his social media endorsements of the project.
According to the just-released track listing for the soundtrack album, Cruise pulls solo duty on "Paradise City" and "Pour Some Sugar on Me," sings duets on "Wanted Dead or Alive," "I Want to Know What Love Is," and "Rock You Like a Hurricane," and contributes additional vocals to "Here I Go Again," "Every Rose Has Its ...
Did Dwayne Johnson actually play the ukulele in Journey 2?
You may remember the above clip from his 2012 movie Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, in which he plays a former Navy code breaker who can also bust out a mean rendition of “What a Wonderful World.” Johnson—who has lived in Hawaii and is of Samoan heritage—plays ukulele off-screen.
One of the world's biggest movie stars — as well as all around cultural personalities — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is also a ukulele player (and guitar player). And a darn good one. Johnson comes from a powerful Polynesian heritage.
5) In the film's novelization, Moana's age is given as 16. This makes her the only Disney princess to be voiced by an actress younger than herself. Moana was released on Cravalho's 16th birthday.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has a secret to his mad singing skills seen in Moana. Tequila. That's right, Johnson insists he took the strong stuff to get voice-ready as the demigod Maui in Disney's animated film.
Yes, even Dwayne Johnson gets intimated. In Disney's Moana (in theaters Nov. 23), the 6-foot-5 actor and former WWE champ voices Maui: shape shifter, demigod of the wind and sea, hero of men. Like newcomer Auli'i Cravalho, who voices the titular character, Johnson performs his own musical number in the animated film.
Auliʻi Cravalho's life changed forever at age 14 when she was cast as the voice of Disney's “Moana.” The Hawaiian native loved singing and acting, but they were just hobbies to her. So were horseback riding, swimming and microbiology, for that matter. A career in Hollywood seemed implausible at best.
The wrestler-turned-actor, 45, fulfilled his childhood dream of learning to play a song with the musical instrument… but with a twist. “As a kid I had this dream of playing my favorite ragtime song, 'The Entertainer' from Marvin Hamlisch on piano. But I truly sucked at piano.
Due to scheduling conflicts, Fraser was unable to return for a sequel, and so Johnson took the lead role for Journey 2. Released in 2012, the sequel maintained the Verne connection by being loosely based on his novel The Mysterious Island, and also referencing the books as part of the plot.
So be it his Netflix special 100% Fresh or an early movie like The Wedding Singer, Sandler has never shied away from showing off his singing chops along with some good, old acoustic guitar strumming.
Most people believe that George. Clooney sang the song in the movie, but it was actually. Dan Tyminski who provided the voice. Hear Tyminski tell the story behind the song in the.
Though the movie may have bombed, Cruise has described his experience on it as “a blast.” His performance makes that very clear. He looks like he's having the time of his life onstage, and he perfectly mimics the live performances of a rock band frontman in the 1980s.
For a more modern look at his power, fast-forward to an interview with WIRED from 2021, when Johnson estimated that his one-rep bench max fell somewhere between 400 and 500 pounds.
