Exclusive! TOOTH FAIRY star Dwayne Johnson Discusses the New Movie

Monday, 11/16/2009

Your character is a hockey player. Is being in movies that features sports important to you?

You bet. I just know how important sports was to me, and everything that sports and athletics taught me from the time I started doing gymnastics when I was a kid, which didn’t last very long, until the time I took martial arts and everything else. I know the lessons that it taught me, and I’m aware of the impact that sports has on children’s lives, all around the world. So any time I’m able to implement that it’s just really, really a cool thing.

Was it difficult to play the tooth fairy?

It wasn’t difficult at all. I mean, it was a no brainer for me. The tooth fairy is part of our culture and it’s part of the wonderment of being a child and, and the beauty of growing up. The very first time that I was approached to play the tooth fairy, I loved it. I loved the idea number one, and because it’s a character that we haven’t seen come to life in movies before.

Do you remember when you lost your first tooth?

Yes, I do. It didn’t come out naturally. I remember jumping from the couch - I thought that I was able to jump from the couch onto the coffee table. And I missed, and hit my mouth on the edge of the coffee table and knocked out a tooth.

Does the Tooth Fairy exist in your own Samoan culture?

Yes, the tooth fairy does exist in the Samoan culture. And, you know, that’s the wonderful thing about the tooth fairy – there are so many different versions of the tooth fairy in cultures worldwide - in France, in Asia, in the islands of Samoa. It’s really amazing and wonderful, the myth of the tooth fairy - because losing a tooth in every culture is such a rite of passage.

What does your character learn about dreams?

Derek finally realizes why dreams are so important in children’s lives is because he has this great relationship with Ashley Judd’s character, Carly. She has two wonderful kids, Tess and Randy. Tess is a beautiful little five year old girl; Randy is fourteen, but both of them are at that age where dreaming is vital and setting goals is vital. And not only that, but doing everything you can possibly do to achieve those goals is vital, and Derek doesn’t quite understand that until he sees their dreams shattered because of him.

TOOTH FAIRY comes to theaters nationwide January 22, 2010.

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