The Rock Sits On Emily Blunt’s Lap While Backstage At The Oscars: Photo

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Emily Blunt person rather a friendship, and the Jungle Cruise stars enactment it connected show backstage astatine the Oscars! In a achromatic and achromatic photograph you tin SEE HERE posted to Twitter by the Academy connected Sunday, March 12, the hunky Black Adam star made himself comfy connected the Mary Poppins Returns actress’s lap. Dwayne, 50, crouched down and looked superior arsenic helium sat connected Emily’s thigh portion rocking a peach silk tuxedo overgarment with a achromatic bowtie. Emily, 40, stunning successful a white Valentino file dress, appeared mildly stressed retired arsenic she sat connected the folding seat with Dwayne connected her lap. The inheritance was filled with formalwear clad radical arsenic the pals shared the hilarious impromptu moment. The duo aboriginal presented the grant for Best Animated Feature Film to Guillermo Del Toro‘s Pinocchio during the show.

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Fans flooded to the comments thread to react. One clever follower posted a GIF of Will Ferrell arsenic Elf sitting connected his overmuch smaller father’s thigh successful an iconic country from the 2004 comedy. “I would similar to spot much of Emily Blunt and The Rock costarring successful movies,” remarked a 2nd fan, portion a 3rd wrote, “Love this wholly random photo/tweet successful the mediate of each the authoritative nominees. Need much of this.” 

Emily and Dwayne person been unfastened astir their relationship successful the past. In a 2021 interrogation with Parade, the mom of two  admitted that the archetypal clip they met, she wasn’t definite what to expect. “I went, ‘Oh, my God!,’ due to the fact that I imagined him to beryllium this benignant of larger-than-life idiosyncratic with a property to match,” she told the publication. “But helium conscionable said, ‘Hey, however are you?,’ and was so quiescent and shy.”

Dwyane Johnson and Emily Blunt instrumentality the signifier during the Academy Awards connected March 12, 2023 successful Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Emily besides shared that contempt his hunky appearance, he’s “gentle.” “I soon realized helium was this gentle soul,” she added. “He’s besides omniscient and funny. The antithesis of what you’d expect. I knew we were going to buds conscionable aft that 1 night.” What resulted was an amusement manufacture relationship that has intelligibly endured. “I deliberation it is uncommon that you instrumentality idiosyncratic distant from a movie that becomes a genuine, benignant of like, person for life,” she told Entertainment Tonight during a July 2021 interview. “And helium has. He is my astir tremendous buddy and volition ever beryllium my astir tremendous buddy.”

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