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Dwayne Johnson has sustained a fairly nasty injury to his right elbow on the set of his A24 MMA pic The Smashing Machine, the actor revealed on Instagram on Tuesday.
It’s unclear at present whether Johnson’s injury will impact production, as A24 couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. We’ll update this story with further context should it come in.
“As you guys know, I’m filming a movie called The Smashing Machine,” he says in a recently posted Instagram video, “and anytime your film is called The Smashing Machine, well, you’re kind of going to get smashed up.
“Look at that sucker right there,” he continues, pointing to swelling in his elbow. “It looks like I have a cantaloupe in the bottom of my elbow. I got banged up pretty good today in our scenes, and there might be some soft tissue damage in there.”
Johnson shared that there’s “a lot of fluid” in his elbow at present, which will have to come down before he can get “any kind of MRI.”
“The pain feels pretty good, but all good. It is what it is until it isn’t,” he said. “I remember my old man used to say, god rest his soul, the soul man — he was an old-school pro wrestler, old-school bodybuilder — he always used to say, ‘A day without pain is like a day without sunshine, boy,” Johnson said with a laugh.
No stranger to injuries, the WWE vet nonetheless asked his followers for “any advanced advice” they might have on some great anti-inflammatories,” before taking in his favorite anti-inflammatory, a dose of his tequila, Teremana.
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