Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is in agreement with fans who are confused by a new wax figure of him on display at a museum in Paris, and he vows to have the statue updated.
Some fans on social media had said the statue, which was recently unveiled at Musée Grévin, features the “Moana” star with a skin tone lighter than his actual complexion and with a face resembling that of Mr. Clean or Vin Diesel.
The wrestler-turned-actor responded to the criticism Oct. 22 by posting to Instagram a video of comedian James Andre Jefferson Jr. detailing all the reasons why he thinks the figure misses the mark.
"I knew my boy @jamesjeffersonj had this Rock wax statue in his roasting crosshairs," the former WWE star captioned the post.
"For the record, I’m going to have my team reach out to our friends at Grevin Museum, in Paris France so we can work at 'updating' my wax figure here with some important details and improvements- starting with my skin color," he added.
He'll visit the museum during his next trip to Paris and "have a drink with myself," he joked.
The museum said in a statement to TODAY.com that "Dwayne Johnson is right."
"We noticed it and will obviously remedy it as quickly as possible and send him new photos once completed," a spokesperson for the museum said. "We are waiting for him when he will come to Paris and the Grevin Wax Museum to celebrate that with a cup of champagne."
Its website says the sculptor, Stéphane Barret, used photos and videos of Johnson to design a realistic figure. The team used a stand-in model that had a similar build to Johnson's. They found the model by visiting gyms, the website says.
The tattoos took the painters 10 days and the eyes were redone three times, the website says.
Barret provided a statement for an article posted to the website that reads: "What was a little harder for me was the sample photo that was chosen, where he just had a very slight smile on his face, an expression that's quite difficult to achieve. It was very subtle. We worked on his face and eyes several times, because the most complicated thing about realism is getting the statue to come alive from the visitors’ perspective.”
The figure's arms are crossed and it is wearing blue slacks, a black belt, sneakers and a blue golf shirt, with something between a smile and smirk splashed across its face.
After the wax figure's debut, many people felt the statue doesn’t properly capture Johnson, with some pointing out on the museum's Instagram page that it looks like Mr. Clean or Diesel, who has starred alongside Johnson in the "Fast & Furious" franchise.
“Yikes! That is not the Rock, maybe his stuntman lol,” one person commented.
"Dwayne Vin Diesel Johnson," another person wrote.
"Mr Clean," quipped someone else.
Some also questioned the statue’s skin tone, which appears lighter than Johnson’s.
"Who is this because uhhhh... You do know he’s Samoan and black right lol?" someone else chimed in.
“Why would you white wax (wash) him?” another person asked.
The museum had teased the unveiling of the wax figure earlier this month on social media. One post featured a video of how Johnson's tattoos were incorporated into the wax figure.
