Best Wrestlers Turned Actors

Dave Bautista’s role as Drax the Destroyer in 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy proved that he was just as adept at playing a musclebound funnyman as John Cena and Dwayne Johnson. What catapults him beyond those two former wrestlers, however, is his dramatic range.

It’s entirely possible that Cena and The Rock are just as good in serious roles, but so far, neither of them has proven it onscreen the way Dave Bautista has.

While Drax is the kind of role that seems tailor-made for a wrestler-turned-actor, Sapper Morton, the quiet, reserved character Bautista played in 2017’s Blade Runner 2049 does not. Nor does the role Dave played as doomsday prophet Leonard in Knock at the Cabin earlier this year.

When watching Dwayne Johnson or John Cena, it’s hard not to see them as wrestlers who became pretty good actors. Dave Bautista, on the other hand, comes off as a phenomenal actor who also happened to be a wrestler once upon a time.

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