The Paris Museum replaced the wax figure of Dwayne Johnson, which was criticized for its dissimilarity (10 photos)

The Grevin Museum in Paris recently became famous on the Internet for its wax figure of actor Dwayne Johnson - it was widely criticized for the wrong skin color and general dissimilarity. Even the actor himself posted a post on his social networks in which he said that he had heard about the dissatisfaction of fans and asked his managers to contact representatives of the museum so that they could make some adjustments.





They brought it in. Look what happened.

This is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, famous actor and former wrestler. This is what he looks like in real life



At the beginning of October, the Musée Grévin in Paris unveiled a wax figure of him, which attracted a lot of attention. First of all, she doesn’t look like an actor with Polynesian and African-American roots. Especially skin tone.

This is what his wax figure looked like





Fans of The Rock immediately attacked this creation with grins and memes, the hype grew so great that Johnson himself found out about it. The actor posted on social networks, where he admitted that he himself laughed, and asked the museum representatives to do something about it, promising that he would personally stop by Grevin to have a drink with himself.

By the way, the museum’s attendance is 800 thousand people a year.

Museum staff tried to correct the figure



They even released a video where they talked about how difficult it is to choose the right skin tone, since the photographs taken as a sample were taken with different lighting.

The director of the museum, Yves Delhommeaux, spoke about the “construction of a new Rock”



We've been working on Dwayne Johnson's figure for over a year, in particular on reproducing his intricate tattoos. We used photographs since Dwayne couldn't go to Paris.

And that's what happened!



For comparison



Here's how they reacted to the update in the comments on the museum's page

???? Guys, you still don’t understand anything... he is a dark-skinned Samoan... it’s all your ethnocentrism...????

The wax figure still looks too European. The bone structure of the face is still damaged. Johnson has wider eyes. It is strange that the creators of such figures always tend to be Eurocentric when creating figures of African Americans or other non-white people, regardless of their admixture. The wax figure looks like a tanned white guy. Johnson has strong Polynesian features.

The figure's redesign has been compared to the Japanese flag redesign in 1999



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Of course, they also joked that this whole story was an obvious joke from Vin Diesel.

Do you think the wax figure, old or corrected, looks like the Rock?