The Rock Lost Weight To Play Chicken Man In ‘Lizard Music’

Fans noticed that Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) had a new look at “The Smashing Machine” press conference in Venice.

Speaking to Variety, Rock explained that he dropped the weight to portray a ”whimsical, eccentric 70-something year-old” called Chicken Man in “Lizard Music.”

Benny Safdie, who is directing “The Smashing Machine,” will also direct “Lizard Music.”

“Benny pitched me this after, and after about 45 minutes, this pitch ended and I said, ‘I am your Chicken Man,'” Rock said at Toronto Film Festival (via Variety) “I still have a long ways to go. I’m so excited to get a chance to hopefully transform again like I was able to do in ‘Smashing Machine.’ [It means] eating less chicken.”

The film is an adaptation of a Daniel Pinkwater novel and tells the story of a septuagenarian whose best friend is a 70-year-old chicken.

Fightful will provide more details on “Lizard Music” when they are known.

“The Smashing Machine” opens in theaters on October 3rd.