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Best Of: Dwayne Johnson / Comic Cristela Alonzo

Best Of: Dwayne Johnson / Comic Cristela Alonzo

Fresh Air · NPR

October 11, 202548m 34s

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Show Notes

WWE superstar Dwayne Johnson plays MMA fighter Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine. "The Rock" spoke with Terry Gross about the role, his many injuries, and his wrestling personas.

For the first seven years of her life, Cristela Alonzo lived in an abandoned diner in a south Texas border town. She spoke with Terry Gross about the culture shock of having money after growing up so poor and the recent ICE raids in L.A. Her new Netflix stand-up special is called Upper Classy.



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