Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson too big for new Porsche Taycan

On the set of his latest film, Red Notice, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and the Netflix production team discovered that the man-mountain was no match for the carsales Car of the Year finalist, Porsche Taycan electric sports car. Meant to be the hero of an “INSANE chase sequence”, Johnson posted the recount of his awkward yet not unusual incident on his Instagram page this week to his 203 million followers.

Red Notice is an action-comedy thriller and globe-trotting heist film where The Rock plays an Interpol agent tasked with tracking down two elusive thieves, played by Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds.

It is said that after months of preparation and the costs involved with purchasing and shipping the Porsche over to the States for the film, when the time came for a rehearsal of the big chase sequence, this is when it all came unstuck, or actually stuck for The Rock.

According to Johnson’s Instagram post, during the rehearsal shots for the Porsche scene the director asked him to get into the car only for Johnson to get stuck because his back is too wide for the door.

Johnson posted "DJ continues to struggle trying to shimmy into this Porsche like a big ass brown marshmallow getting shoved into a coin slot.

"After about 15 seconds of uncomfortable silence… Rawson, myself and the entire crew just started laughing our asses off!!"

Luckily for The Rock, the team found a ‘creative’ way to get the necessary shots needed for the scene to look effortless.

This isn’t the first time a creative solution has been needed to get the muscular actor into a sports car for a film scene. Johnson has said previously in interviews that his stature is so massive that he can’t drive smaller cars such as Lamborghinis and Corvettes like his "much smaller" co-stars can. This is why you’ll often see him driving big Utes and SUVs in films such as Fast and Furious.

A similar incident also happened while filming the Fast and Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw with co-star Jason Statham. Statham revealed in an interview that the team had to CGI The Rock into the McLaren they were meant to be driving.

"One, his arse was too big to get into the seat, and two, he gets very nauseous when we’re going rather fast. Because he’s more used to driving these big lumbering trucks, so anything over 30 miles per hour, he gets a little nauseous."

Red Notice is expected to hit Netflix in 2021.

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