i shouldn't still be surprised by how much i like John Cena as an actor but he really is quite good
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Trash person though
aug 29, 2025, 11:40 pm • 0 0 • view
How so?
aug 29, 2025, 11:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Propping up WWE. That isn't moral
aug 30, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
Trainwreck was a bullshit movie but his scene was the best
aug 30, 2025, 1:05 am • 3 0 • view
I'm impressed with his range, also Dave Bautista. You see Cena's emotional scenes in Peacemaker, or Bautista in The Last Showgirl and you go, "shit, these dudes can ACT"
aug 30, 2025, 12:21 am • 5 0 • view
He’s got good comedy chops, too.
aug 29, 2025, 11:33 pm • 25 0 • view
He's very quick. Real good peacemaker bloopers
aug 29, 2025, 11:35 pm • 10 0 • view
The bloopers from Bumblebee are gold too… especially him and Glynn Turman riffing with each other.
aug 29, 2025, 11:37 pm • 6 0 • view
I’ll have to check those out!
sep 1, 2025, 1:51 am • 0 0 • view
It was his idea for Peacemaker to be bi.
aug 30, 2025, 12:03 am • 7 0 • view
It helps that he wanted to take a blowtorch to his kid friendly image
aug 30, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Much as I dislike Akwafina, the "Face like an ear" line in jackpot resonates
aug 29, 2025, 11:34 pm • 1 0 • view
He was really good on the mic in WWE, especially later on. I hate him bc he's a Vince Guy, but I can't deny he's got chops.
aug 29, 2025, 11:40 pm • 5 0 • view
The Vince shit really bums me out because I have been a big Cena fan for more than 25 years. I don't watch WWE so I haven't seen his farewell tour but it sounds like it's probably gonna end with Vince coming back during his last match. Yuck
aug 30, 2025, 12:47 am • 2 0 • view
Damn I didn't know about that. If Vince comes back, that would be insane tbh. I knew Cena was a Vince Guy, but I didn't know he was still in that guy's corner. Kinda disappointing.
aug 30, 2025, 4:43 am • 1 0 • view
Apparently the invisible one's also the reason why Brock Lesnar is back on TV despite being all over Vince's sex trafficking indictment because John wanted to work with him one last time. Pretty much killed my enthusiasm for Peacemaker S2.
aug 30, 2025, 2:12 am • 3 0 • view
I mean, he does have many many years of gay theater under his belt.
aug 30, 2025, 2:13 am • 0 0 • view
PeaceMaker is so much fun. Dudes got range.
aug 29, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s everything we were told the Rock would be.
aug 30, 2025, 9:06 am • 4 0 • view
He’s a really nice guy. He goes into my in laws pizza shop once a week and is always cool.
aug 29, 2025, 11:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Peacemaker fucks
aug 30, 2025, 3:00 am • 1 0 • view
Better actor. Cena vs Batista
aug 29, 2025, 11:31 pm • 5 0 • view
I still wanna see Bautista in a rom-com.
aug 29, 2025, 11:48 pm • 3 0 • view
lemme get James Gunn on the line, he can make it happen
aug 29, 2025, 11:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Batista is a better dramatic actor who can definitely do comedy, Cena is born for comedy
aug 29, 2025, 11:35 pm • 17 0 • view
Agreed, but give him the right material, and I think Cena could do more than just comedy. The potential is there. Both are leagues better than Dwayne Johnson, who's played the same character/persona in almost every film he was in for the last 20 years.
aug 29, 2025, 11:43 pm • 6 0 • view
Pour one out for the last risk he took: “Southland Tales”
aug 29, 2025, 11:49 pm • 7 0 • view
Missed that one, but I heard good things about his performance there. He seems more focused on his image and branding than a proper acting career. I know he has The Smashing Machine coming out later this year (playing an athlete in a biopic--big stretch), but it seems to be too little, too hate
aug 29, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Pain & Gain is also worth watching, it's definitely not your standard Rock role.
aug 30, 2025, 12:40 am • 4 0 • view
Been a while since I last seen it, but I remember enjoying it. He's at a point where the days of taking unconventional roles or chances are done in favor of a guaranteed payday, and controlling his image. And It's his right.
aug 30, 2025, 12:58 am • 3 0 • view
But out of the almost 50 films he's been in during the last 25 years, I'm lucky if I can remember what he did in 4 of them. To have that many roles, and yet, have none of them really stand out... that really says something.
aug 30, 2025, 12:58 am • 3 0 • view
Totally- for me it's a shame because like Cena and Bautista I think he has the acting chops to do good work but like you said it's all about the image/safe choices. Maybe someday he'll have enough money and do something daring...but I'm not holding my breath.
aug 30, 2025, 1:04 am • 3 0 • view
Roddy Piper
aug 29, 2025, 11:48 pm • 0 0 • view
It's like if a dog could talk, and then the dog starts doing Shakespeare, and it arguably has a better interpretation of the material to boot.
aug 30, 2025, 12:41 am • 1 0 • view
'Gustav can ride very fast'
aug 30, 2025, 12:41 am • 0 0 • view
His comedic timing is amazing too. The movie Freelance was fun.
aug 30, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view
He's surprisingly likable
aug 29, 2025, 11:46 pm • 0 0 • view
He and Dave Bautista both aren’t scared to let themselves be vulnerable in a role, which makes them surprisingly relatable. And I love that Robert Patrick signed on to the show when he heard he’d get to work with Cena again.
aug 29, 2025, 11:42 pm • 56 0 • view
They have also clearly Put In The Work, and it really shows. I love that for both of them.
aug 30, 2025, 11:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Vulnerability is the secret sauce for art, including acting.
aug 30, 2025, 4:31 am • 11 0 • view
The dude holds a record for most number of wishes granted through the Make a Wish foundation. I like watching him solely for the good guy in real life reason. And he’s frikkin funny
aug 30, 2025, 12:09 am • 21 0 • view
He's also an incredibly generous person. Check out his record with the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
aug 30, 2025, 11:09 am • 0 0 • view
He's so good, It was awesome to see his appearance in The Bear
aug 29, 2025, 11:34 pm • 4 0 • view
Peacemaker season 2? Gotta watch the new episode.
aug 30, 2025, 12:17 am • 2 0 • view
It's been pretty dang good so far.
aug 30, 2025, 1:29 am • 1 0 • view
Ricky Stanicky was better than it had any business being
aug 29, 2025, 11:47 pm • 4 0 • view
Right!? My wife and I watched it out of boredom as a “well if it’s not good we don’t have to finish it” thing, and we’ve probably watched it 4 times now.
aug 30, 2025, 1:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I laughed my ass off at Heads of State
aug 30, 2025, 7:18 am • 1 0 • view
❤️
aug 30, 2025, 12:09 am • 0 0 • view
Cena's one of those people who commit themselves completely to whatever they're doing, even if it makes them look silly or dumb. Unlike some other wrestlers, he can do comedic parts and antiheroes without hurting his professional persona.
aug 30, 2025, 7:50 am • 1 0 • view
And by all accounts he's good human being too.
aug 29, 2025, 11:50 pm • 3 0 • view
I recently texted a friend basically the same thing. He convinced me to give Fast & Furious franchise a try and I literally whooped when Cena showed up because of how much I love Peacemaker.
aug 30, 2025, 12:19 am • 0 0 • view
Charisma goes a long way.
aug 29, 2025, 11:47 pm • 0 0 • view
He's charming and funny and doesn't take himself seriously which I respect.
aug 29, 2025, 11:37 pm • 5 0 • view
Make A Wish Foundation reining Champion, and part time professional wrestler John Cena is the only actor I've ever seen be openly honest about a hair transplant. It's seems so silly to think people care so much about a man's hair that that would be a brave thing to admit, but it is. Dude rules.
aug 30, 2025, 2:57 am • 3 0 • view
I liked him in Heads of State, but they're not getting me to watch any more superhero movies or shows. I've seen enough children's movies and shows for a while.
aug 30, 2025, 5:17 am • 1 0 • view
Peacemaker is NOT a kiddie show! Plus, he's BOLD in it.
aug 30, 2025, 10:04 am • 1 0 • view
It's the fucking BOMB. It actually got me to give up a 30 year grudge against James Gunn. It turned me into a Jane's Gunn stan.
aug 30, 2025, 10:47 am • 1 0 • view
@swelljoe.bsky.social don't listen to these jerks. Please watch season 2 of Peacemaker with your children. They will love it!
aug 30, 2025, 8:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm not watching "gritty" superhero stories any more than I'm watching the earnest ones. If they made one superhero movie a year, ok fine, maybe I'll go see the men in tights fly around and wrestle. But, it's become ridiculous. There just aren't that many stories worth telling about superheroes.
aug 31, 2025, 1:38 am • 1 0 • view
Uh, I was just making a joke, but okay.
aug 31, 2025, 2:40 am • 1 0 • view
He's going to be in Demon Slayer's new movie in the English Dub apparently! I'm a bit shocked 🤣
aug 30, 2025, 5:29 pm • 0 0 • view
James Gunn understands the, Arnold Schwarzenegger, method. Surround a big personality with fantastic character actors, to raise the billing.
aug 30, 2025, 2:22 am • 3 0 • view
honestly everyone has really been nailing the depression this season of Peacemaker, but Cena especially
aug 29, 2025, 11:34 pm • 2 0 • view
I unfortunately met him in real life and he was kind of a jerk.
aug 30, 2025, 12:14 pm • 0 0 • view
John Cena is the new man the soviets were trying to build.
aug 30, 2025, 12:01 am • 1 0 • view
He made Ricky Stanicky. Without him it would have been a dud.
aug 30, 2025, 12:39 pm • 0 0 • view
He and Dave Bautista are really raising the bar for wrestlers getting into acting.
aug 30, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
It helps that he seems very willing to make himself the butt of various jokes (sometimes literally).
aug 30, 2025, 12:56 am • 1 0 • view
The dude…. He’s a big muscle man, but he emotes so well. Incredibly gifted actor.
aug 30, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
He's acted in enough WWE Studios schlock to be fantastic. That and he has a good sense of comedic delivery that pairs well with his jarhead physique for excellent comedy Also unlike The Rock he actually seems to enjoy life outside of being a walking billboard so that helps
aug 29, 2025, 11:42 pm • 17 0 • view
You can tell a lot about a man by the awards show speeches he delivers: John Cena is a people person who is funny and spirited Dwayne Johnson is a bored shill that doesn't care about what venues he accepts
aug 29, 2025, 11:44 pm • 11 0 • view
早上好中国。 现在我有冰激淋 我很喜欢冰激淋。但是《速度与激情9》比冰激淋……
aug 30, 2025, 12:15 am • 0 0 • view
Seems like a super decent guy too
aug 29, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I take it you just watched the Fred movies?
aug 31, 2025, 7:45 am • 0 0 • view
I was a John cena skeptic until literally like the last two years but damn if he isn’t just consistently putting in the work and being good
aug 29, 2025, 11:40 pm • 1 0 • view
As much as people deride his wrestling style, "consistently putting in the work" is the thesis statement for Cena's entire career :)
aug 30, 2025, 7:21 am • 1 0 • view
He has a deadpan sense of comedy this really works
aug 30, 2025, 9:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Seeing him review coffee with his big ole hands cracks me up.
aug 29, 2025, 11:33 pm • 31 0 • view
And then the spanakopita! He can be incredibly thoughtful, apparently.
aug 29, 2025, 11:36 pm • 4 0 • view
Peacemaker season 1 really solidified his range and depth as an actor for me
aug 29, 2025, 11:35 pm • 4 0 • view
I watched him talk about coffee for a minute and was like "uhoh, I think I like this fella"
aug 30, 2025, 1:48 am • 2 0 • view
Oh shit, is it season two? Are we eating peace and liking it?
aug 30, 2025, 12:02 am • 2 0 • view
We are indeed
aug 30, 2025, 12:07 am • 0 0 • view
really? i havent seen him in anything.
aug 30, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
he’s also, by all accounts, a pretty good dude. bizarro world.
aug 29, 2025, 11:37 pm • 10 0 • view
I followed him on Twitter when I was still over there and every time I checked the profile of someone I ran across who was say the vilest Nazi shit they were always being followed by John Cena. It was very confusing because he seems like a decent guy
aug 29, 2025, 11:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Might've ran a real intense follow back protocol back in the day like Obama.
aug 30, 2025, 12:12 am • 7 0 • view
It has to be that, right? He doesn’t seem like a Nazi
aug 30, 2025, 1:16 am • 2 0 • view
I'm pretty sure this is the case because I remember hearing about it back when I was on Twitter before Elon got his mitts on it. Totally hearsay so take it with grain of salt, but im like 90% sure it's true.
aug 30, 2025, 1:26 am • 2 0 • view
Not to mention a lot of dormant accounts get hacked and completely refaced as some real awful shit.
aug 30, 2025, 1:40 am • 3 0 • view
He followed hundreds of thousands of people. But he's a good guy and definitely not a Nazi. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R-o...
aug 30, 2025, 1:52 am • 1 0 • view
Lemme say he still stands with Vince McMahon in spite of his old boss being a confirmed union buster, accused rapist, and distinctive racist
aug 30, 2025, 1:18 am • 1 0 • view
I have wanted him and Channing Tatum to do some kind of buddy movie for so long now
aug 29, 2025, 11:51 pm • 13 0 • view
Only if sean William Scott has a role. Dude is over looked and type cast
aug 30, 2025, 2:35 am • 1 0 • view
Sean William Scott needs more love and a really good series
aug 30, 2025, 10:07 am • 1 0 • view
@jamesgunn.bsky.social you think you could find a role for Sean William Scott? He a good comedic actor, and deserves to move on from being stifled
aug 30, 2025, 5:06 pm • 1 1 • view
They could be brothers. Their faces are similar
aug 30, 2025, 12:15 am • 5 0 • view
I enjoy him too, but I have a bad feeling about him. After his comments about the Vince McMahon situation, he's always going to make me a little uneasy.
aug 29, 2025, 11:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Makes me wonder how many decent actors we lost to that meat grinder that is professional wrestling.
aug 30, 2025, 5:40 pm • 1 0 • view
First time I saw John Cena in a TV show/film was as Ewan O’Hara in Psych. Love the episodes he’s in.
aug 30, 2025, 1:29 am • 3 0 • view
He was great in The Train Wreck (sp?) for like a minute and a half
aug 29, 2025, 11:41 pm • 0 0 • view
This is one of the nerdiest things I've ever seen about coffee and I can't believe it's coming from a (former) professional wrestler. www.reddit.com/r/espresso/c...
aug 29, 2025, 11:58 pm • 3 0 • view
I keep trying to watch his movies but I never see him
aug 29, 2025, 11:33 pm • 11 0 • view
For real, Peacemaker's just casual accepted bisexuality is maybe my favourite part of this very very good show.
aug 31, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Uh ... charisma is different than acting. Solidly charismatic, can emote. But he's the same character in different settings instead of presenting different characters.
aug 29, 2025, 11:52 pm • 2 0 • view
He seems to get the inherent comedy in being super jacked and it seeps into his performances. Compared to say the Rock, who comes across a little *too" serious for a man so bulky he cannot fit into a booth at a diner.
aug 29, 2025, 11:58 pm • 2 0 • view
He’s got them gutters lol
aug 30, 2025, 12:17 am • 0 0 • view
I think his favourite bit of mine is in Peacemaker. Truly excellent dude.
aug 30, 2025, 12:57 am • 0 0 • view
easily has surpassed the Rock
aug 30, 2025, 2:05 am • 0 0 • view
He intuitively grasps that being a really big guy is inherently kinda funny and leans into it
aug 29, 2025, 11:46 pm • 34 0 • view
He's got a very expression face and good comic timing, too
aug 29, 2025, 11:49 pm • 22 0 • view
His face looks like that of a pale cartoon gorilla [complimentary] & I appreciate that he seems to both know and have fun with that fact.
aug 30, 2025, 3:13 am • 10 0 • view
He doesn’t have the Rock’s evident need to be told how attractive he is every five minutes.
aug 30, 2025, 5:13 pm • 4 0 • view
He's a much better actor than a wrestler.
aug 30, 2025, 12:02 am • 1 0 • view
I repeat my wish that someday John Cena will do an Ernest P. Worrell movie.
aug 30, 2025, 12:26 am • 3 0 • view
He’s crushing it in Peacemaker
aug 29, 2025, 11:40 pm • 3 0 • view
I have almost convinced my husband, a non-dancer, to learn the Peacemaker dance with me. I just need to learn it first, myself 😅.
aug 29, 2025, 11:45 pm • 3 0 • view
To be fair I don't think I've ever seen him not act.
aug 30, 2025, 7:02 am • 0 0 • view
I saw someone say that he is what the Rock thinks he is, and that just made sense for me immediately.
aug 29, 2025, 11:35 pm • 78 1 • view
Or what The Rock used to be when he was I'm movies like Get Shorty. Although that might change now that he's in an A24 movie.
aug 30, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I feel like The Rock is always just playing himself. I legit forget the names of the characters he plays because they’re indistinguishable from himself (except Maoi but that one was animated and he didn’t have creative control over the movie).
aug 30, 2025, 1:27 am • 20 0 • view
Incredible to remember that he is the highest paid actor now and of all time, despite just playing himself in everything.
sep 1, 2025, 5:46 am • 0 0 • view
Yup. I vaguely recall he played an 'agent stone' which is very on the nose whether it's real or my mind just invented a memory of it.
aug 30, 2025, 6:56 am • 9 0 • view
He’s a right cunt, that one. 👍
aug 29, 2025, 11:35 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm reminded of Jim Cornette saying Cena and Bautista were destined for stardom when he worked with them as developing wrestlers in OVW. I dont always like Corny's opinions, but man, when the guy's right, he is very right.
aug 30, 2025, 7:15 am • 1 0 • view
Is he? I've never... seen him in anything.
aug 29, 2025, 11:32 pm • 81 0 • view
The Suicide Squad is probably the best place to start if you're all that curious. Not to be confused with just 'Suicide Squad'.
aug 30, 2025, 12:13 am • 4 0 • view
That was a reference to his wrestling career where he was known to say "you can't see me." There were many memes about it.
aug 30, 2025, 12:21 am • 1 0 • view
He's delightful in Train Wreck.
sep 1, 2025, 5:42 am • 0 0 • view
He’s extremely charismatic and charming. I haven’t seen anything he’s in cuz I refuse to get HBO max, but from interviews or little snippets he’s very good youtu.be/_533Z_yY6kU?...
aug 30, 2025, 1:07 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 11:33 pm • 28 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 9:57 am • 0 0 • view
You should watch his interviews. He’s also pretty well spoken.
aug 30, 2025, 6:40 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 6:41 am • 1 0 • view
I was fully expecting to hate “Blockers”, but was pleasantly surprised by both the movie and him.
aug 29, 2025, 11:57 pm • 2 0 • view
He somehow made a white rapper gimmick affable. I vehemently dislike Macoemore, Eminem, and Mark Wahlberg, but I'll admit I bought his rap album.
aug 30, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
Yes he has a natural gift.
aug 30, 2025, 12:57 am • 0 0 • view
i watched every episode of peacemaker season 1 on the stationary bike and kept saying “fuck” because i kept expecting to hate him and the show and, no, he was good and the show was entertaining.
aug 29, 2025, 11:35 pm • 58 0 • view
I think his crowning achievement as an actor was Fred 3: Camp Fred, it’s all downhill from there
aug 30, 2025, 12:20 am • 0 0 • view