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Aldis Hodge has been collecting major roles in Hollywood since 1995’s Die Hard With a Vengeance. Now 35, the actor has been especially visible recently thanks to impressive turns in films like Straight Outta Compton (2015), Hidden Figures (2016) and One Night in Miami (2020).
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Hodge, though, didn’t believe it when Dwayne Johnson called to invite Hodge into the DC Extended Universe with a role as fan-favorite superhero Hawkman, aka Carter Hall — leader of the Justice Society of America — in the Rock’s grisly upcoming antihero action film Black Adam.
Hodge literally didn’t believe it. As in he thought someone was pranking him.
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“I had auditioned and there was a couple weeks where there was radio silence so I thought that I didn’t get it,” Hodge tells Yahoo Entertainment after the Warner Bros. Black Adam panel at San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend (watch above).
“And somebody had been playing on my phone, sending me really random messages like, ‘Hey, this is such-and-such.’ And then they would do it again. And then D.J. called, like, ‘Hey, this is D.J.’”
Dwayne Johnson and Aldis Hodge in Black Adam. (Photo: Warner Bros.)
Hodge thought it sounded like the Rock, but still didn’t buy it.
“I’m like, ‘Bro, I’m done. I don’t have time. Stop f***ing around with my phone.’ I said some things. … I said, ‘Bro, stop playing with me!’ And he’s like, ‘No, for real, this is D.J.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, s***. I messed up.’”
Even then, Hodge still thought Johnson was calling to say that the filmmakers were going with someone else.
“Wasn’t that,” he continues. “He said, ‘Welcome to Black Adam.’ I put the phone down for a minute, my mind exploded and I came back to Earth and picked the phone back up and I said, ‘Hoo! Thank you, brother, this is awesome, man.’
“[The film] means a lot to him but he also shared how much it means to him, how long he had been working on it, 10-plus years. … So that was pretty cool. But yeah, I almost hung up on him. I didn’t think it was him.”
Source: yahoo.com