After mocking Dwayne Johnson’s messed up wax figure, here’s what the new statue looks like!

Getting a wax figure in a museum would be an honor for public figures. After all, you are so famous that fans immediately recognize you and want to take a picture with you. But you had to look twice at the new wax figure of Dwayne Johnson in France’s Grévin Museum to recognize the ‘Fast & Furious’ star.

What was especially noticeable: moderately pronounced facial features – and lighter skin! This brought angry “The Rock” fans to the scene, the photos went viral, and Finally, she also commented on Dwayne Johnson himself. On Instagram, he shared a video of James Andre Jefferson Jr. ridiculed the wax figure: Johnson looked “like David Beckham or a member of the royal family” and as if he had never seen the light of day – he was even offended.

Dwayne Johnson asked for an update

Dwayne Johnson commented kindly on the whole matter: he and his team would contact “our friends at the Grevin Museum,” so that the waxwork gets an “update” with important details and improvements – starting with its skin color.

The Parisian museum also responded quickly and announced on social media that it would be reworking the statue. This has now happened – and this is what the new wax figure looks like (right in the photo). shared on X/Twitter) by Dwayne Johnson at the Grévin Museum:

The original version was simply a mistake, quoted Veronique Berecz, PR manager of the museum. The intention of money laundering, which the museum was sometimes accused of on social networks, “has nothing to do with it. We honestly made a mistake based on the photos we looked at.”

Working with photos is “difficult”

Dwayne Johnson didn’t model personally, they worked from photos – but it turns out that “that could be very tricky because the nuances of skin color can look different in photos depending on the lighting.”

“After seeing all the comments on various blogs and social networks, we immediately changed it,” Berecz said. It remains to be seen whether Dwayne Johnson will now respond to the changed appearance of his replica – and whether he will actually accept the Grévin Museum’s previously extended invitation to drop by for a glass of champagne…