Paris museum will fix Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s botched wax figure
Rock miffed: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was not happy with his wax likeness. (Marc Piasecki/Getty Images)
By Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Officials at a wax museum in Paris said it will fix a statue of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, which has come under fire for “whitewashing” the professional wrestler-turned-actor.
The Musée Grévin, which is similar to its more famous counterpart in London, Madame Tussauds, unveiled the wax figure last week, but neither Johnson nor his fans on social media were happy with it, The Guardian reported.
“They whitewashed The Rock,” a user on X, formerly known as Twitter, wrote. Another poster on social media compared the figure to Mr Clean. An Instagram account called the Shade Room called the figure “melanin deficient.”
Comedian James Andre Jefferson was more explicit, Variety reported.
“They turned The Rock into a pebble!” Jefferson said in an online video that Johnson posted to his Instagram account. “You make the rock look like he David Beckham. It looks like The Rock is going to be a part of the royal family. Did y’all even Google him?”
Comedian James Andre Jefferson was more explicit, Variety reported.
“They turned The Rock into a pebble!” Jefferson said in an online video that Johnson posted to his Instagram account. “You make the rock look like he David Beckham. It looks like The Rock is going to be a part of the royal family. Did y’all even Google him?”
“I knew my boy @jamesjeffersonj had this Rock wax statue in his roasting crosshairs,” Johnson wrote in a response on his Instagram post. “For the record, I’m going to have my team reach out to our friends at Grevin Museum, in Paris France so we can work at ‘updating’ my wax figure here with some important details and improvements -- starting with my skin color.”
Johnson’s mother. Ata Maivia, is Samoan. His father, the late pro wrestler Rocky Johnson, was a Black man who was born in Canada.
On Monday, Musée Grévin, which contains 250 celebrity statues, wrote on Instagram that its artists were “working on improving” Johnson’s figure.
“Your feedback is always valuable to us,” museum officials wrote.
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