Thanks to WSVN-TV Entertainment Reporter Chris Van Vliet for sending this in:

Hey Rajah,

Hope you’re having a great weekend! I wanted to give you a heads up about the interview I did with The Rock in Los Angeles yesterday. He was doing a press junket for the new Disney animated film called MOANA.

The highlights of our chat are below but unfortunately the most interesting part happened at the end of the interview and got cut off when the cameraman stopped rolling.

I said to The Rock, “So we’ll see you in April? Orlando?”

Rock said, “What’s in Orlando”

I said, “A little thing called WrestleMania”

Rock said “Sure, ya I’ll see you there”

I guess we won’t know until April 2nd if he was being serious or not, but I figured I’d let you know.

How singing in WWE helpled prepare him to be in the Disney animated film MOANA:

“What really helped was Lin-Manuel Miranda who wrote the music for our movie, did a lot of research and he pulled up all of those old concerts that I used to do in a WWE ring where I’m singing and I’m talking and I’m singing and I’m talking s–t. He had the greatest time doing that and he thought the perfect song for me would be a song called ‘You’re Welcome’. Lin’s a genius, I loved working with him. He’s phenomenal. So when he sent me the song I thought ‘OK, sounds good. I can do this’ and then it goes into a rap and I thought ‘alright, I’m down. Let’s do this. I’ll spit that fire!’”

Why voicing an animated character is one of the hardest roles he’s taken on:

“It was a great challenge for me because it was a different muscle to exercise. It’s one thing when we’re just talking like this, but it’s another thing to really inject life into your voice and intonation.”

Why he decided to leave WWE to pursue a career in Hollywood:

“I wanted to challenge myself. And I wanted to be better. And I didn’t want to settle. I was really fortunate to accomplish what I accomplished in wrestling. I loved it. There’s nothing like wrestling. That crowd, I love it. But I also wanted more and there’s that interesting thing when you’re lucky enough to get that little bit of success and then you want to do something else that’s not your forte, that clearly is not, but you’re willing to take the challenge on, you’re met with a lot of cynicism. You gotta fight through that and you gotta listen to the voice inside and then you gotta bring it.”