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Did John Cena successfully parlay a meme into a successful movie career? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 months ago by PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.ca

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I had never really heard of him outside of wrestling until the memes, and since then his movie career has actually been on a pretty impressive trajectory.

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I didn't mean to say that the meme opened the door to film, I meant to say that it got him attention so that his film career took off more than the average wrestler.

He, like a bunch of wrestlers, are given bad parts... But since Unexpected Cena, it feels like his career trajectory accelerated; landing bigger parts in bigger movies more frequently.
So he used the meme to move from a The Hulk career path to a The Rock career path, is what I was trying to get at.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

I can get behind that :)