Rolling Stone

Museum Corrects Dwayne Johnson Wax Figure Skin Tone: ‘We Just Made an Honest Mistake’

Dwayne Johnson‘s melanin has been returned to his wax figure at the Grévin Museum in Paris. After a weekend of being criticized for white-washing the original statue of the actor, who requested the ...
New York Daily News

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson wax figure updated at Paris Museum; skin tone fixed amid criticism

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s wax figure at the The Grevin Museum in Paris is receiving an update, after a wave of online criticism and pressure from the movie star himself to fix the sculpture’s skin ...
Entertainment Weekly

Paris wax museum says it's working to fix Dwayne Johnson figure after skin tone complaints

Dwayne Johnson's request is being answered. The Musee de Grévin, a wax museum in France, announced Tuesday on Instagram that it is in the process of rectifying the actor's concerns about his statue, ...
People

Paris Museum Updates Dwayne Johnson Wax Figure with Darker Skin After Backlash: 'Made an Honest Mistake'

A spokesperson for the French museum admitted the wax figure "was indeed whiter than it should have been" Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News Editor on the TV team at PEOPLE. He has written about ...
Los Angeles Times

Dwayne Johnson’s new wax figure is ‘missing melanin.’ He’s taking matters into his own sun-kissed hands

The Rock or Mr. Clean? That’s what a newly revealed wax figure at the Grévin Museum in Paris has fans of Dwayne Johnson pondering. When the Grévin unveiled its latest wax star last week, netizens ...
Forbes

The Musée Grévin In Paris Has Fixed The Skin Color Of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s Wax Figure

The recently unveiled wax figure of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson at the Musée Grévin in Paris has had its skin tone darkened, the museum told Forbes Tuesday morning, after the statue meant to resemble ...
Rolling Stone

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Will Have Museum Update ‘The White-Washed Pebble’ Wax Figure

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is making sure the Grévin Museum in Paris does something about Dwayne “The White-Washed Pebble” Johnson. Last week, the museum unveiled a wax replica of the actor with an ...
WPTV-TV

'The Rock' reached out to Paris museum to fix wax figure's skin tone

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said he plans to work with Musée Grévin in Paris to “update” the wax figure of him that was unveiled this month to include a more accurate depiction of his skin tone and ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Dwayne Johnson Wants His Botched Wax Figure Changed: “Starting With My Skin Color”

He reacted to a Paris museum's widely criticized "whitewashed" wax figure of the 'Black Adam' star. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large Dwayne Johnson has responded to a widely criticized wax figure of ...
IGN

The Rock Asks Paris Museum to Make Improvements to Botched Wax Figure 'Starting With My Skin Color'

After fans roasted a wax figure at Paris' Grévin Museum for baring a questionable (to put it mildly) resemblance to its subject Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Johnson himself is requesting some changes, ...
CBS News

Paris museum says it will fix skin tone of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's wax figure

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...