@thewrap: At the #VeniceFilmFestival, Dwayne Johnson credited co-star Emily Blunt for encouraging him to take on #TheSmashingMachine, recalling the impact of her words. “There's a place that you can put all this stuff that you have gone through as a kid,” Blunt told Johnson. “That place is what you love to do, which is acting. And you have me, let's do this together.”