By LAYLAN CONNELLY | [email protected] | Orange County Register
In a video to an estimated 99.2 million followers, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson gave a shout out to Huntington Beach’s beautiful sunset, oh, and the beautiful women in “your bronze skin and bikinis and baby oil …”
“Not that I was paying attention to that,” he said with a smirk on his Instagram, as he sat in traffic while cruising down Pacific Coast Highway. “I was super focused.”
The pro wrestler-turned-movie-star was hanging out in Surf City all day Wednesday, Jan. 24, shooting a surf scene for the hit HBO show “Ballers,” in which he stars as a retired football superstar trying to reinvent himself as a financial manager for current players in Miami.
The filming created a buzz in the town south of Hollywood, though irked some locals who weren’t able to catch waves on the south side of the pier.