Dwayne The Rock Johnson is a giant movie star. Sometimes you see old photos of giant movie stars and they’re shocking. Or sometimes you see an old ad spot an actor did while still searching for stardom — and you catch a glimmer of the future star. George Clooney, for example, is a handsome man on the set of Roseanne. But while hindsight is 20/20, it’s hard to look at him standing in Roseanne’s kitchen and say that man is going to be Batman. Be honest.
But in this self-published photo from when he was 16, Dwayne Johnson looks like he means serious business. You don’t know — and neither does he — what the future holds. But it looks like it’ll be rich. A big prize, however, goes to anyone who looks at this photo and predicts that this is a man who will star in some lighthearted comedies.