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"Get Smart" opens this Friday at theaters everywhere.

Question: Hi Dwayne. So, for Get Smart, you're the successful secret agent here. So to get into your mindset for this, did you think of James Bond.

Dwayne Johnson: A little bit. I thought of James Bond. I also thought, well, here's a guy, a pretty successful guy at what he does and yet he has a dark side. For me, it was just, my process for all my movies is to just get really close with the director and just make sure we're on the same page, we share the same vision for the movie, the same tone. And you know, it was a character I was excited to play. And physically too. When I first started thinking about the character, how all our characters came together, the thought of Steve Carell and myself just side by side is just funny, and it made me laugh from the get go. And then it was funny on the page and I thought well, we had a pretty good shot of making a good movie. Or a funny movie.

Q: What was it like kissing Steve Carell?

Dwayne Johnson: It was like, you ever have warm apple pie with cold ice cream too, and you find that balance where you're oh, uhhh [laughter]. Um. Hey, you know, it was great, it was great. Not too many men can say that, have a nice big lip lock with Steve Carell. It was great. The length I go, the committed actor. Jack Gylenhall did it, Will Smith did it, I thought it was my turn to kiss a man.

Dwayne, I know you're a big fan of self-deprecating humor, so this was obviously a chance to do that, with bumping into the wall and kissing Steve. How did you approach scenes like that and is that something you get to do in the Witch Mountain movie also?

Dwayne Johnson: Approaching scenes like that, well, I love self-deprecating comedy, it's my favorite kind of comedy, and I think that if there's ways that we can do that and inject that in some of these movies, like those two scenes you mentioned, that's great. Um, in the Witch Mountain movie, sure, there's a lot of self-deprecating comedy as well, and I think if I can find, strike a balance between finding some arrogance with the characters, regardless of whether he's successful or doesn't have much, like in Witch Mountain, a cab driver in Las Vegas, but still try to find a balance of a guy who has a little bit of arrogance yet it's not offensive, and he's a little endearing and he can be funny--I always try and find that balance where we can.

Hi, Dwayne. Talk about shooting that final fight scene on the railroad tracks with the truck and how much of that was you and Steve and how much of it--

Dwayne Johnson: Well, it was all me and it was Steve's double. You know, that was, again, the length I go as an actor. Some guys just don't want to commit themselves, but, no, that was a lot of fun to do, and I think with a movie like this, everybody was so excited to come together and actually do the action. And Steve, you know, those guys are committed actors. Steve and Anne Hathaway, and they did a lot of their own stunts. I think they might have done most of their own stunts. And it was great to do. You get a director who really wants to put together some great action, we had a great stunt coordinator too, as well, and then I think when you have all those elements coming together, and again, you know, I talked earlier about everybody sharing the same vision for the movie, just in terms of the action I think is important too, cuz there are some great action movies out there that have raised the bar, and I always talk about them. From the Bond movies, the last Bond movie to the Bourne series, was tremendous. And especially the summer, this is a pretty good summer with some pretty good, high quality action stuff, so you want to make some action sequences that compete.

If you could talk specifically about that fight scene, what you had to do. I know you do so much of your own stunts, was there any--

Dwayne Johnson: I do all my own stunts. I'm kidding.

Was there any point where it was too much--maybe just take us through it.

Dwayne Johnson: Um…no, because I felt very safe and comfortable in the environment with all the, with the stunt coordinator and his team of people around us, making sure everything was safe. But you know, that was really, that was a great stunt, and if you're into stunts and physicality like that as an actor, you look for days like that. We're on a railroad track and we were going 50, 60 miles an hour. We were harnessed into the SUV, and you know, having our fight scene as the car's going that fast, not only is it challenging, but again I think the key with that is to make sure that the actors feel safe and comfortable. And with the stunt coordinator we had and his team, everybody felt very safe and again we were harnessed in, buckled, we really weren't going anywhere, and then you lay out the fight scene and you rehearse it a little while and you get on that camera car and go.

There still is a logistical challenge of a different kind when you're fighting in a confined space, isn't there?

Dwayne Johnson: Sure. Well the challenge is you're on a moving vehicle, number one. Are you talking about on top of it? Well sure, the vehicle is moving at a really high speed, so you want to be careful, and at the same time, you just want to make sure the action is rooted in reality and everything you play, you want to make sure that it's played in a realistic way, and at some point too, you always want to find the balance of making people smile and making them laugh as well.

Did you have a chance to either meet or speak with Buck Henry and/or Mel Brooks? And also, did you watch the TV show, probably in syndication since you're so young, but did you watch the show when you were a kid?

Dwayne Johnson: I watched the show when I was a kid and I was a big fan of the show. I did not get to meet those gentlemen; I would have loved to have met them too as well. I just watched Young Frankenstein the other day, too. Werewolf! Uh, and yeah, so I was a big fan of the original, but I didn't get a chance to meet those guys and when they first approached me with the idea about--when they first said they were going to remake Get Smart and make it into a movie, you know I think immediately our reactions are, and the natural understanding reaction is like oh, uh, here we go, you're messing with something that's great. You've got to be careful. But the material was great, all the elements came together, it was a director who I wanted to work with for some time, I really enjoyed Pete's work in the past, and Carell, of course, I love. And Anne Hathaway came on and the Alan Arkin signed on, which was wonderful, so it kind of all fell together.

Can you talk a little about the idea or have you ever thought of Dwayne Johnson, secret agent? And what kind of secret agent do you think you'd make? And I have a follow up.

Dwayne Johnson: Uh oh. Uh, what kind of agent do I think I'd--

A secret agent. Could you keep it secret?

Dwayne Johnson: Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets. Um--

But would it be a secret? Wouldn't everybody know you?

Dwayne Johnson: That's a great point. I would have to go incognito I think. What was the follow up?

What are you working on now?

Dwayne Johnson: I've got about four weeks left on Race to Witch Mountain and we're shooting in Vegas and then after that I'll be out for about a month or so and then I'll do a big comedy called Tooth Fairy, which I'm excited about.

Are you in this next film going to continue on your path to really challenge yourself so that people will see you in a way they haven't seen you before? We've been talking to you for so long and watched you plot this course and actually do it really successfully. We see people do it and then they pull back because they get like freaked out. You haven't done that, you've continued to move forward and go well, whatever, I'm doing it. Is that going to be the case with Witch Mountain and the one after?

Dwayne Johnson: Sure. I think I understand--you're talking about growing? Yeah, well that's always the goal. And especially for me, too, because when I first started acting in movies, I think it was in 2000, I didn't have, my background wasn't in theater and my parents weren't movie executives so I didn't have that connection. But I thought I did have pretty good instincts and I loved the entertainment world and I loved performing in the world that I came from, just in terms of television. That world allowed me, I think that benefited me greatly. Just that type of four hours of television every week was my theater. I was able to perform in front of large audiences, 20, 30,000 people at a time, really a guerilla style of shooting that we'd do, and so you know, the goal is to always grow and the goal too is to always have a really large degree of movies that go from genre to genre to genre. And I love the idea of having the ability to go from action to drama to comedy, back to action comedy or back to drama, and hopefully find a little bit of success in all of these movies and you know, I think about actors who I really admire who have done, who have had that type of career that I really aspire to have, like your Tom Hanks and your Will Smith and George Clooney, these guys who you know, have a really wide foundation of work that they do. And you guys know those guys anyway. So you know, I love the idea of having that ability, and you step up to home plate and you don't always hit a home run, sometimes you do, sometimes you fail. But the goal for me is to be that type of actor and to continue to grow and entertain. You know, with a movie like Witch Mountain, again, it's with Disney and I love that and I love the elements we're able to combine, a contemporary action movie, take some of my grittiness and intensity of the past, that I've done in my action movies, and combine them with elements that frankly that I really love and appreciate, like family and heart and humor and touch of fantasy. I love that. And the Tooth Fairy, of course, is going to be all new, different experience, which is going to be great. And then after that, there are a couple of dramas too, by the way, that we're developing, so, maybe that's the case.

Is Tooth Fairy Disney too?

Dwayne Johnson: No, Tooth Fairy is going to be Fox.

Can you talk a little bit about Witch Mountain and who you play, and then also what's your costume like for Tooth Fairy?

Dwayne Johnson: Um--

Are you the Tooth Fairy?

Dwayne Johnson: Absolutely. I am the tooth fairy. Um, what's my costume like in Witch Mountain?

No, what's your costume like in Tooth Fairy?

Dwayne Johnson: Oh, you're like forget the Witch Mountain question, tell us about the tooth fairy.

Tell us a little bit more about Witch Mountain, how did they rework it--?

Dwayne Johnson: Well, it's set now, it's a contemporary action comedy, family adventure, too, you could also call it. And we set it in Vegas and I'm a cab driver in Vegas, and of course the two kids with the powers, they get in my cab and then the race is on. And we really treated the movie like a Disney ride, so from the moment you get on, the ride begins, it happens just like that. And hence the title, Race to Witch Mountain. We played around with a couple of titles, we wanted that title, it was very fitting for the movie and there's really a relentless drive with the movie. And it happens right away, just in terms of the race, and for me, I love the idea of a guy who has, doesn't have much now, but he's made a lot of mistakes along the way, and he gets the opportunity to make a decision that is a very defining decision that happens to allow him to save the world.

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