After fans called out Musée Grévin in Paris for unveiling an incredibly light-skinned wax statue of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, the actor/wrestler says his team will be reaching out in hopes to "update" his likeness with "some important details and improvements."
You can see the figure below.
Johnson, whose mother is Samoan and father was Black Nova Scotian, took to Instagram to let his fans know he is working on having some "updates" made to his wax statue.
On Sunday, he shared a video of comedian James Andre Jefferson Jr. railing on the figure and agreed something should be done.
He captioned the 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 🤣✊🏾💪🏾"
“And next time I’m in Paris, I’ll stop in and have a drink with myself 🥃 😉"
You can watch below.
WARNING: NSFW language
While people on social media were happy to learn The Rock wants to do something about it, they were still pretty miffed that the museum got the color so wrong in the first place.
The Rock is of color, making him white was a bit disrespectful though.
— Syed Irfan Ahmad (@Iam_SyedIrfan) October 23, 2023
The guy who did this pic.twitter.com/1EZ1jgSLQV
— Syed Irfan Ahmad (@Iam_SyedIrfan) October 23, 2023
The disrespect. pic.twitter.com/JexpDlODh1
— Anton 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 (@AntacsB) October 23, 2023
No cause I was like who is this white man
— dani (@Daanniellemarie) October 24, 2023
Good for him for being vocal about it 'cause this wax figure looks yite af lol https://t.co/AkNp48mxjK
— Vicky Hope (@vickyslyth_) October 23, 2023
And many still had their jokes...
pic.twitter.com/TTwCrw5F3i
— Travis Bickerstaff (@Bickpixx) October 23, 2023
The Rock didn't like what they cooked
— Screen Wizard 🧙♂️ (@screenwizardz) October 23, 2023
Dwyane looking more like Dwhite. 😂🤣
— Lorraine Horton (@Rainyhort1) October 23, 2023
‘If you sense what the Stone is preparing’
— Marin (@Marin_Yerro) October 23, 2023
They’re gonna turn The Chalk into The Rock
— Problematic high vibe respecter (@bobbylucasxiii) October 23, 2023
“The Limestone”
— Ediddy88 (@EDiddy88) October 23, 2023
Fortunately, it seems the museum agrees.
The Musée Grévin told The Daily Beast:
“Dwayne Johnson is right, and we noticed it and will obviously remedy it as quickly as possible and send him new photos once completed.”
We'll be looking forward to that!
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