‘S**t, we got caught’: Dwayne Johnson comes clean about his suspiciously god-like muscles seen on leaked ‘Moana’ set pics

In a recent interview how close Moana’s story hits, he said,

“My daughters, all three of my daughters were there. That was the first time we’d all been together in a public place before. That was beautiful. My mom was there. It’s our culture. I grew up here, got in trouble here 15 miles up the road. My grandfather’s buried here. My grandfather inspired the character of Maui… It all came together.”

While Johnson had no problems getting into the psyche of Maui, “I have a handle on who Maui is. I know the voice, I know the man, I know his inspiration. I can access things. I got it,” he said that the experience was still “eye-opening” for him.

“The moment I stepped on set, Terri, as live-action Maui, I realized right away, ‘Oh, wow, this is different,’ in of this is real flesh-and-blood and skin-and-bones. It becomes real all of a sudden. It was almost like getting in my grandfather’s skin and what that was like.”

And we all know that he’s getting into the character pretty perfectly, as seen in the recently leaked set pictures. But when the reporter asked him whether Johnson had put on extra muscles for the role, his eyes widened and he cracked up, “I’m so happy you said ‘You bulked up,’ because when you say, ‘You bulked up,’ that means you couldn’t tell.”

In reality, it took Johnson a good couple of hours every day to put on a bodysuit of Maui’s muscles and his famous tattoos. However, he was counting on the truth to not be out until the film’s release given how discreet the filming has been.

“We shot outside and when those pictures surfaced, I was like, ‘Sh*t, we got caught, ’cause we were putting up, like, walls so there was no paparazzi. But they got into boats and started shooting pictures. But, I’m happy you liked it.”

So, this settles a long debate that has been around since the leaked set photos of Johnson surfaced earlier in November. And we now also know how much struggle went behind getting the photos. So, thank you to whoever took the risk of boating around to get a snap of Johnson’s bare chest, which wasn’t a bare chest at all.