How much money did dwayne johnson make for the tooth fairy

Dwayne Johnson is The Tooth Fairy, also known as Derek Thompson, a hard-charging hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. But as Derek slowly adapts to his new position, he begins to rediscover his own forgotten dreams.

To help promote the film, last week I got to attend a small press conference with Dwayne Johnson and Julie Andrews. Actually the charm of the script, the moment I read it, was I completely identified with some of the books that I do attempt to write and I was thrilled because it has such a gorgeous message. We should always hold onto them. It seems to me that the criteria for you to select a project these days is that you want to have fun.

I think it depends on what each piece is saying and it really depends on the script as much as anything else. But yes, this one really resonated. You seem to be having a lot of fun with Dwayne in some of these scenes. Was it fun playing a hard ass CEO? I needed to brush up on that a bit. It took a bit of effort this time.

One of the great messages was also having the need for somebody to encourage you and build you up in life. Did any of you have one person or people who were especially instrumental in encouraging you in your personal or career pursuits? I was really fortunate enough to have a couple of people in my life when I was younger. I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path. So, I was really fortunate to have that. So, for me, it was very, very special.

Dwayne, did you have a fun time playing hockey in this movie? Speaking of the impossible, was it a challenge? Laughs Speaking of the impossible, me on ice. I had a wonderful time with it. I had a couple weeks to learn how to ice skate. For the majority of the movie, I had wonderful stunt doubles who were skating for me. A couple of years ago, unfortunately, I had ruptured my Achilles [tendon] and I had to get it reattached so my mobility in my ankle has been pretty stiff along the way.

So we could safely say that my ice skating is not up to Olympic standards by any means but I did have a blast. Julie, as sort of a follow-up to the first question, what sort of novels, films or stories fired your imagination as a child?

Obviously, I had a wonderful tutor that traveled with me because I was very busy working as a child, so I had a lovely lady that finally set me straight and knew that I loved to read and she introduced me to all the classics.

It is a little classic. And now, being a proud parent, me and my partner, I would probably say to understand the power of potential and the power of belief and believing in yourself and finding a settling with yourself and being comfortable with who you are and how important that is.

It was cathartic but it was also something that I have lived with for years and none of it bothers me in any way. That was my existence.

You have to understand that I had dealt with them or thought about them for a very, very long time. Actually what was really painful was getting all my dates right. Oh, a lot of times, believe me. A lot of people knew more about me than I knew.

Well I think everybody knows what happened after Poppins in a way. I took it up to Mary Poppins. Moss Hart, the director of My Fair Lady, wrote a wonderful book called Act One and it was one of the great, great autobiographies.

And, when I read it, I realized that I had learned something from it which is about a piece of theater history that I never knew anything about and thanks to Moss I did. And, it was the incentive. I had thought for years why publish a biography? I could always give it to my kids, but why come out with it? And eventually I thought not many people know about those early, last dying days of British vaudeville. Can you talk a little bit about working with Stephen Merchant and Billy Crystal. It seemed like those scenes were adlibbed in some way and they were just throwing things out there.

And as far as Billy Crystal, you know, I had grown up admiring Billy. Such an iconic actor.

Julie, how do you feel about being referred to as a cultural icon? Do you still feel comfortable with that definition? Everybody is very, very kind. I guess if you stick around long enough.

Was it hard for you to play someone who had no belief whatsoever in the possibility of dreams? Or is that part of the pleasure of it for you? How did that come to pass? And was that quid pro quo with your appearance on Family Guy last week? Dwayne, what about the costuming in this? Were you comfortable in those costumes? Did you have fun with them? How do you feel when you wear a tutu? The first day I saw him he was in a tutu. So, for me, it was pretty easy. It was last month, I think.

Two months ago, sorry. I think it was on there for 9 weeks, the New York Times Bestseller List. No, I was here last year. I have about five good bass notes, which is what I said last year to my audiences. I host the evening. I sing-speak as best I can. I wish I could.

But I do come up with some surprises and I think the audience has a good time. I feel they do. Dwayne and Julie, do you guys watch your movies and how do you like watching yourselves on screen? You were saying, do we watch our movies? I always want to continue to get better so, for me, it goes back to the environment I was raised in, in terms of athletics and always watching film and always going back and watching your performances to see how you can get better and see where you can improve.

Are you sort of turning a corner and going back to making action films for the next little while? Could you talk about what your plan is for the future? It was just the timing of it. But, I enjoy…you know, this will now be my tenth year in acting. The goal was always to work in as many different genres as I possibly could and have a nice wide foundation of work and that type of base.

You know, I love making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them.

A lot of people loved The Rundown a lot. Is that a film that if you could make a sequel to that, would you ever think about that?

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But, you know, I had a great time working with Peter Berg and the other actors in it. But that was a great movie. If we could do a Part 2, sure. But I have another lovely one coming out later in the year called Despicable Me with Steve Carell. Her name is Marlena.

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They said I could name her. No, I did change my voice for this one. I did the most white bread bred? It was ridiculous but I was trying to balance with Carell. You know, I think he does these days. I think he used not to but he freely admits that he was young and foolish and thought he was being hip. You did a great interview of him on Bonus Features for the 40th Anniversary [of The Sound of Music] and you kind of brought him out of that whole thing. He just likes to pretend to be a bad boy.

When Derek discourages a youngster's dreams, he's sentenced to one week's hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand. Julie, you write children's books and you have a great imagination, so I wonder if your character's life philosophy was very much like your own as far as not destroying children's dreams?

It really is -- that we shouldn't destroy our dreams. I was immediately -- you couldn't be more right. Would you say that's fair? That's what I'm trying to say. I think it really resonated -- if one's fortunate enough to have a script slide across one's desk these days, it's about does it resonate, do I feel I can help it and do something for them and with it and this one was very easy, thanks to Dwayne and our director Michael Lembeck, to say yes to.

I mean, it's very hard to tell this big guy off and the wings were a problem too. I've talked about my past before. I was fortunate to have a couple of people in my life -- a wonderful mom and a couple of adult figures, father figures in my life at that time who saw potential in me even when I didn't and who always embedded the thought of trying to get better and becoming a better person, becoming a better man and what that really meant and certainly trying to find integrity along the way.

To bring it back around to the script, when the script came around and I read it, it really resonated with me and the thought of the impossible becoming the possible, that resonated with me because I'm an example of that. It's a tiny little book. Well I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past.

We've all stumbled and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again. And, as you step every day and we're going to see challenges, we going to see failures, we should certainly learn from the failures and be gracious with our successes too as well. But I think the important thing our little girl's mom and myself have to pass onto our little girl would just be believing in herself and being comfortable with herself.

I'm not sure about the Part 2. A lot of people have very nicely but kindly been asking but I'm not sure about that. I'll have to think about it. But it was cathartic and I didn't forget. I've had a number of years to think about it and dwell on what it is I might like to say and I did want to be truthful because it seems silly to write something and not just say it as it was.

I mean, I've been around for quite awhile now -- just remembering was it , was it , was it ? Thank God for the internet these days because I'd never have gotten it right. I didn't think many people knew about my early history and vaudeville. If I could give them a picture of what that's like, that was a reason to do the book. He's an incredibly talented guy. He's such an iconic, comedic actor.

That's why it was such a pleasure and honor to work with both he and Julie. So, from Billy Crystal, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor and Robin Williams were all guys who I really admired growing up and to be in a scene with Billy was fantastic and he's very personable. I don't believe it for a second but I'm very flattered.

I don't and neither do my kids. No, it wasn't necessarily hard for me to play that because I knew where we were going at the end of the story and I knew we were going to tell a nice story and by the end of the story my character would have changed through the events in the story, so no, it wasn't difficult at all.

Well I'd been such a big fan of the show, Family Guy, and Seth, and of course his home was at Fox. We've got a great part for him. Nobody but somebody who's very strong in their masculinity could be wearing what you were wearing.

He was pretty in pink I have to say. I think any time, and certainly they can attest to this as well, anytime you set out to make a comedy, I don't think you should put parameters on it. If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door. Where is that part of your career?

That's very, very much a part of my career. We just had a wonderful book that I'm very proud of come out. It came out just before Christmas and it was an anthology of poems and songs and lullabies and I have to say very proudly, it's been on the best seller list for children.

And there's another one coming out in May and I have another couple that I'm working on right now. So it's very much ongoing. Well, I think so, but it's from your lips to someone's ears. Have you recorded that yet?

I'm doing a concert in May in London which is the beginning of a small but international tour and later in the year I'll be going abroad. It's the same concert that I did at the Hollywood Bowl last year and around the country and I'm just taking it to Europe. I'll be at Michael Jackson's haunting house, the O2 Arena. I'd like to be very clear about that.

But if you're looking for me to sing The Sound of Music, I could not, sadly. Otherwise I wouldn't do it. I'm fascinated by Julie's answers. I'm just like this and I get lost in her answers. We're supposed to be talking And I enjoy them and, for me, it's a way to learn.

I love to see the final cut or whatever it is that the director would like me to see and yeah, I'll probably see if it we go to a premiere or something like that. But I don't really But I don't actually sit down and say I'm going to watch one of my movies.

I think you did The Other Guys and you're getting ready to do an R-rated action film. We had some really wonderful success in the family genre and it was a genre that I wanted to get in and I wanted to hopefully make some good movies and find some success too along the way and it's just a matter of the material and the timing of the material that came in. If Faster, which I'm doing next with George Tillman and Billy Bob Thornton, if that had come in a year or two years ago, I probably would have done that before Tooth Fairy.

So, for me, I've been very fortunate to work in a lot of different genres and now I'm going back to action which is great. But there's nothing like kicking butt too and I love doing that. That's something I hear about online all the time.

What's interesting is I think there's storylines within The Rundown that I like and I think we could take that and then make a different movie out of it. But I think any time you can find an action movie that's not driven by its action only, it's based on a story and you get a great character or great characters that people are invested in, you get a chance to kick some butt along the way, every once in a while wink at the audience and have fun.

Yeah, that's coming up. I'm not featured as much in this Shrek, but I am in it. It's going to be lovely, I think, based on what I've seen of it which when you do an animated film you don't see that much.

I play Carell's mum. It's maybe the nastiest character I've ever played. You're going to play a bad woman? Well she's a bad woman with a wonderful attitude. I mean, she's so self-involved that she's delicious. Yes, I think it's coming out in July.

She's the ugliest looking wench you've ever seen. She thinks she's just you know. German Jewish English awful mother that you've ever heard. Actually you catch him on a far day and he's tickled to death.

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