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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] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

John Cena was/is one of the biggest names in wrestling, is beloved by kids, and has a face Hollywood can work with. I don't think it goes deeper than that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

What I mean was that before the Unexpected Cena meme, he had a smattering of mediocre movie parts, like other wrestlers.
But after the meme, his career started looking more like Dwayne Johnston's, with more and more major parts in bigger movies.