Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine Has Nala Sinephro’s First Score And A Cleaners From Venus Song Played In Full

After teaming with his brother Josh on modern classics like Good Time and Uncut Gems, filmmaker Benny Safdie is making his solo directorial debut this Oscar-bait season with The Smashing Machine, which doubles as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s big prestige gambit. The film stars Johnson, opposite Emily Blunt, as amateur wrestler and MMA fighter Mark Kerr, and though the character doesn’t sound so different from his own background as a pro wrestler, he underwent a physical transformation for the role (for instance, he has hair).