DWAYNE JOHNSON IS sitting in his trailer on the set of The Smashing Machine, his upcoming wrestling biopic, when Men’s Health catches up with him. After our interview, he and the crew will jump on a plane where there’ll be a bottle of his alcohol brand, Teremana Tequila, waiting for him.
Launched in March 2020 in the US and hitting Australian shores last month, Teremana Tequila became the fastest premium spirit to sell one million nine-litre cases within a 12-month period in US history.
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Finishing the day with a nip of the agave spirit is probably forgivable when you own your own distillery, though it contributes only modestly to Johnson’s gargantuan but dull, 5,000-calorie daily intake.
“My diet is pretty boring,” says Johnson. “Chicken, fish, steak, complex carbohydrates, some greens in there, protein shake. Boring. Disciplined, but boring.”
Similarly boring, but undeniably necessary, says Johnson, was the workout he did this morning. “I did chest and cardio,” he says. “Nice and boring.”
Having got the dull stuff out of the way then, it seems pertinent to ask Johnson about something closer to his heart, his family, specifically his daughters. Johnson’s got three, Tiana, 5, Jasmine, 8, and Simone, 22, a trio whose first two initials – TI, JA, SI – spell the word TIJASI, embossed on the bottom of every bottle of Teremana Tequila.
So, what has a man who epitomises an outsized, overtly rugged sense of masculinity, learned from raising daughters?
“I’ve learned to be less selfish,” says Johnson, 52. “I’ve learned to be less judgmental and I have learned the powerful fact that when you’re a father to girls and you’re their daddy, every man that they meet, [for] the rest of their life, will be measured against you and how you treat them. So, what an awesome, incredible responsibility for us as men to remember that.”
He’s right, it’s a responsibility that’s implicit, if largely unspoken, in being a girl-dad. Johnson won’t let himself forget it.
“That’s a conceit that I really protect,” he adds. “I’m a proud girl-dad, and I’ve made mistakes along the way. I’ve tried my best to learn from those mistakes and try to be the best dad that I can, while always remembering that my role as their father, is yes, to discipline them, to love them, to protect them, but also just to remember that every man they meet, they’ll be measured by how I treat them.”
That’s a hell of a standard, I’m sure you’ll agree. You can only pity the poor, unfortunate partners of TIJASI.
Find out more about Teremana Tequila here.
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