Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has reached the level of cultural ubiquity where everyone wants to know everything about him, even the stuff no one but him and his urologist should know. A little over seven months after The Wrap reported, amongst other allegations, that one of the most successful actors in the history of Hollywood was on set peeing in bottles, he lets the truth flow out.
It was originally reported that Johnson would have his team dispose of Voss bottles full of his urine on movie sets, specifically his upcoming action/comedy film Red One. During a revelatory GQ interview at his secluded Virginia estate, Johnson admitted that the rumors were true: he did, in fact, regularly urinate in bottles while on set of movies. “I pee in a bottle,” he says. “Yeah. That happens.” Nothing more, nothing less.
The anonymous source who leaked information on Johnson’s pee proclivities explained the 52-year-old megastar did so in order to save time on set. But, allegedly having a production assistant or someone from his team dump it out may have rubbed the cast and crew the wrong way. Since Johnson was somewhat curt in his admission, we’d need an op-ed from one of the people who actually handled his container of urine entitled “Between The Rock and His Pee Place” to get to the bottom of this. Or, we could treat it as the the too-much-information news it really is.
Johnson and his Red One co-star Chris Evans did clear up a more damning allegation of Johnson arriving to set up to eight hours late, potentially contributing to the film’s $250 million production budget. While Johnson admits he has been late, he calls the eight-hour tardiness a “bananas amount” that is inaccurate. Evans attempted to massage the truth a bit by saying Johnson’s lateness was predictable enough for them to factor it into the production schedule, before he altogether says he wouldn’t even call what Johnson did as being late. It sounds like Johnson is so irreplaceable to a film that he is allowed to live by the famous Nas lyric from his song “Can’t Forget About You”: “Never on schedule, always on time.”
Honestly, when a man has grossed over $12 billion at the box office, a little pee and later start to the work day should be no big deal.