The statue at Grevin Museum in Paris, France.
A wax statue of American actor and former professional wrestler Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson was recently unveiled at the Grevin Museum in Paris, France. However, the actor is not impressed with the same and asked the museum to make some improvements to the wax figure. Mr Johnson asked them to "update my wax figure with some important details, starting with my skin colour".
This came after many people on the internet found the wax statue to be too light-skinned to represent the multi-ethnic actor. Many accused the Grevin Museum of "whitewashing" the figure.
Further, he shared a video of comedian James Andre Jefferson talking about the wax figure. In the clip he said that "The Rock" looks like he is "about to be part of the royal family,". While sharing the same, the "Black Adams" star wrote in the caption, "I knew my boy @jamesjeffersonj had this Rock wax statue in his roasting crosshair."
"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," he added.
As per a report in Deadline, the Grevin Museum said that they noticed the same and will fix it as soon as possible. "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 are waiting for him when he will come to Paris and the Grevin Wax Museum to celebrate that with a cup of champagne," they told the outlet.
As per the website of the museum, "After Dwayne Johnson was chosen at the first edition of the Grevin Awards, sculptor Stephane Barret had to rely on photos and videos to create a statue as close to reality as possible, without the presence of the international star." They added that the eyes of the sculpture "had to be redone 3 times to avoid too dark a tint making the star's face too hard and erasing its warm aspect."
Sculptor Stephane Barret added, "When I was told I was going to work on Dwayne Johnson, I was really excited to be able to create this celebrity. It's true that it's always impressive to make people of this size. We were lucky enough to find someone who physically matched Dwayne Johnson's build and height. That really allowed us to get it right."
"What was a little harder for me was the sample photo that was chosen, where he just had a very slight smile on his face, an expression that's quite difficult to achieve. It was very subtle," he added.