Anyone who has come across a celebrity in public has been forced to balance a desire to seem cool and an instinct to totally freak out.
Unless you’re the guy who came across Dwayne Johnson on Tuesday, in which case you just go all-in on the freakout.
The Rock shared a video to Instagram of his mid-road encounter with the excited fan, who apparently got out of his truck to snap a selfie.
In the caption of the Instagram post, Johnson explained that he had rolled down his window to say hi to the fawning fan, who then abandoned his truck, causing a traffic jam, and raced over for a picture. He was then utterly unable to speak in the presence of his hero, stuttering and gasping for air as he took the photos.
It’s this kind of interaction that fuels the persistent speculation that Johnson could run for president. People just love the guy, and he seems to love them back. As Caity Weaver wrote in her recent profile of The Rock for GQ, “For Johnson, there are no strangers; there are simply best friends, and best friends he hasn’t met yet.”
As Johnson said in the video, “I got the greatest fans in the world. … And the fucking craziest.” And as he wrote in the caption, “#INeedDarkerWindowTint.”
wait…so who took the picture shown above? Obviously it’s not the truck driver because you can see his phone. Did the Rock take a selfie of this guy taking a selfie? Or did a passenger take a picture of this guy taking a picture?
We need answers.