Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt struck up a genuine friendship while filming Disney's "Jungle Cruise," and test audiences picked up on their natural chemistry. "Very early on, we learned that their chemistry was magic and that people really cared a lot more about them fighting, or this banter that they have, than what they were bantering about," the film's director, Jaume Collet-Serra, told The Hollywood Reporter. "We had more plot. But at some point, people were like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's all nice, but give me more of them together.'"
The duo plan to dazzle audiences together in future projects. There has already been talk about a "Jungle Cruise" sequel, and Johnson has recruited Blunt to star in a unnamed film he is producing. For her part, Blunt admits that she often seeks out her costar's advice, especially when it comes to show business.
"He comes from some hard times, and he wears it very lightly and in a very wise philosophical sense," she explained. "And so I do go to him for advice because he has lived in the trenches. He has not just winged it, and it has not been this meteoric rise to where he is now."
