Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Smashing Machine sees Dwayne Johnson play MMA fighter Mark Kerr, alongside Emily Blunt as Kerr's girlfriend Dawn Staples. (A24 ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Big man. Pained soul. Mad wife. At its bleeding, opioid-addicted heart, American filmmaker Benny Safdie’s solo directorial debut, The ...

Emily Blunt jokes she would've 'been pissed' if Johnson and director Benny Safdie, her Oppenheimer costar, hadn't asked her to play Dawn. The two stars detail some of their emotionally grueling scenes ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Smashing Machine star Emily Blunt says the sports biopic about MMA fighter Mark Kerr allowed ...

In The Smashing Machine, Blunt plays the wife of former MMA fighter Mark Kerr. Blunt saw her character, Dawn, as someone who was “always chasing wildness.” She felt this side of Dawn was on display in ...

The Rock had won over Christopher Nolan. The "Oppenheimer" director, hardly known for making effusive public comments, was interviewing Benny Safdie about his new film "The Smashing Machine" at a ...

Our Take Ten guest this week is Emily Blunt. Hot on the heels of her eighth Golden Globe nomination — this time for her performance in The Smashing Machine — Blunt sat down with us to tackle questions ...

‘The Smashing Machine’ is Dwayne Johnson’s attempt at Oscar-level respect as an actor, with director Benny Safdie doing his best to get the Rock there. Not nearly as pleasurably anxiety-inducing as ...

The Smashing Machine star Dwayne Johnson explains why he looking for a role to 'disappear' into. Emily Blunt jokes she would've 'been pissed' if Johnson and director Benny Safdie, her Oppenheimer ...