John Cena discouraged from taking ‘Barbie’ role by company: ‘This is beneath you’

The “Barbie” film may need damaged field workplace numbers for Warner Bros., however not everybody was on board for the blockbuster earlier than manufacturing started.

Professional wrestler turned actor John Cena, who made a quick cameo within the movie as Merman Ken, says an company he was working with discouraged him from taking the role as a result of they thought it was “beneath” him.

Cena prefaced the revelation by explaining that he would not work with a publicist, so his group actually solely consists of his supervisor. He does, nevertheless, work with an company to safe roles. He’s presently signed to WME Agency, though he by no means referenced them immediately.

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John Cena was inspired by an company he was working with to not tackle the role of Merman within the “Barbie” film. (Nathan Congleton/NBC through Getty Images)

“They’re just going on what they know, and what they know is, this entity, this commodity, gravitates towards these things. We should stay in this lane. But I’m not a commodity. I’m a human being. And I operate under the construct of every opportunity is an opportunity,” he shared on “The Howard Stern Show.”

“I read the script of the movie, I tried my hardest to be in the movie, but we were filming ‘Fast [& Furious],’ filming next door,” he defined. After getting linked with producer and star Margot Robbie, he says a plan got here to gentle.

Margot Robbie recruited John Cena to be in “Barbie.” (Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency through Getty Images)

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“Margot was like, ‘We’ll make you a Merman, you’ll be in it for a half a day.'”

Although Cena was into the concept, the agency was not. “But I think the perspective from an agency’s standpoint was, ‘This is beneath you,'” he admitted. “Which I get, I get that. But also to the agency’s credit, immediately they acquiesced when I was like ‘No, we’re gonna do it.'”

John Cena says he went towards an company’s suggestion and took the “Barbie” role. (Jason Koerner/Getty Images)

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“But all they can do is offer their guidance,” he added. “They’re not ultimately making the choice. And their guidance is, ‘Hey, truly, trickle-down economics from this may take you out of these lead lap slots.’ And I get all of that. I’ve always operated under the philosophy good work gets you another chance.”

While doing promotion for the movie in July with co-star Ryan Gosling, Robbie was requested about Cena becoming a member of the flick and confirmed she had one thing to do with it.

Margot Robbie not solely starred but in addition produced “Barbie.” (Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures)

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“While we were shooting in London, I ran into him at a restaurant, and we’d worked together before,” she informed Chris Van Vilet.

“I used to be like, ‘Do you wanna come be a Merman in ‘Barbie’?‘ And he was like, ‘Uh, yeah.’ And I was like, ‘Surely he’s not gonna comply with it identical to that.’ And he did. . . . But he is so superior like that.”

Cena’s supervisor in addition to his consultant at WME didn’t instantly reply to Fox News Digital’s request for remark.