Dwayne Johnson ready to rumble with Rebecca Ferguson's abusive co-star: 'I’d like to find out who did this'
'Dune 2' star says she had to tell a famous co-star to 'f*** off'
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Dwayne Johnson is ready to throw hands with the co-star that got under Rebecca Ferguson’s skin.
The Dune and Mission: Impossible actress went viral this week after she recalled during an interview with the Reign with Josh Smith podcast a moment when she had to work with an “absolute idiot of a co-star.”
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“I remember there was a moment and this human being was being so insecure and angry because this person couldn’t get the scenes out,” she said.
The actress remembered how her unnamed castmate berated her with lines like, “You call yourself an actor?” and “This is what I have to work with?”
“I stood there just breaking,” Ferguson, 40, said.
“I think I was so vulnerable and uncomfortable that I got screamed at,” she added. “But because this person was No. 1 on a call sheet, there was no safety net for me. So no one had my back. And I would cry walking off set.”
However, eventually Ferguson confronted the actor, who is not Hugh Jackman nor Tom Cruise, both of whom she has worked with on multiple projects.
“I looked at this person and I said, ‘You can eff off … I never want to see you again,’” Ferguson recounted. “And then I remember the producers came up and said, ‘You can’t do this to No. 1. We have to let this person be on set.’”
The experience marked a turning point in the Silo star’s career. She eventually completed her scenes with the culprit but said she wouldn’t let herself be bullied ever again on a movie set.
“From that moment, I have never let myself get to a point where I’ve got home and gone, ‘Why did that happen?'”
The Rock spotted Ferguson’s comments and officially removed himself as one of the candidates who might be the “idiot of a co-star” when he weighed in with words of support for his Hercules castmate.
“Hate seeing this but love seeing her stand up to bulls***,” Johnson wrote in a post shared to X. “Rebecca was my guardian angel sent from heaven on our set. I love that woman.”
The former WWE star added: “I’d like to find out who did this.”
On social media, fans cheered Johnson’s supportive threat, with one person calling him a “true gentleman” and another adding, “They better apologize before they have to deal with the Rock!”
As social media sleuths tried to deduce the identity of the unsavory actor, Emily Blunt also exclusively confirmed to DailyMail.com that she was not the co-star, with the star’s spokesman saying: “Rebecca and Emily are friends and there’s nothing but love between them.”
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