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Did John Cena successfully parlay a meme into a successful movie career? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I had never really heard of him outside of wrestling until the memes, and since then his movie career has actually been on a pretty impressive trajectory.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He used his acting skills honed the ring and adapted them to the movies. This isn't uncommon, as off the top of my head Andre the Giant, The Rock, and Dave Bautista have all done so to great success. HHH was in a Blade movie, and I'm sure there are a lot more.

I don't even watch wrestling, the first three are widely known and I looked up the actor from the Blade movie because he looked like the others who came over from wrestling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking of the rock when I posted this.
I'd say Andrew the giant and Dave Bautista had careers similar to Cena before the meme: mostly wrestling with a sprinkle of mediocre movie parts.
But after the meme his career seems more like the rock's, with more and more major parts in major movies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Dave is killing it though. He has range, and is taking advantage of it by playing very different characters in wildly successful movies.

The rock also has range as shown in a few scattered roles but has appparently decided to limit himself to his family friendly light comedy action movie 'brand' more recently.

Cena is on his way up for sure.