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Dwayne Johnson is UNRECOGNIZABLE as he transforms into MMA fighter Mark Kerr with curly wig and facial prosthetics while filming biopic The Smashing Machine in Vancouver

As the WWE star gets in character to portray retired MMA fighter Mark Kerr for A24's The Smashing Machine, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is unrecognizable in a curly black wig and prosthetics

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson continued to slip deep into character on Friday as he donned a wig and prosthetics to portray MMA fighter Mark Kerr in the A24 biopic The Smashing Machine, which is filming in Vancouver, Canada The Smashing Machine - also starring Lyndsey Gavin, Oleksandr Usyk, and Ryan Bader - is based on John Hyams's 2002 HBO documentary of the same name, which also captured Kerr's substance abuse, 1999 hospitalization and rehab stint, in addition to his overall career. But first, the Young Rock co-creator produces and stars as Callum Drift in Jake Kasdan's $250M-budget Christmas action flick Red One - hitting US/UK theaters November 15 - alongside Chris Evans, JK Simmons, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Liu, Nick Kroll, and Bonnie Hunt.

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