As a featured character on the hit NBC series “Young Rock,” former WWE manager Harvey Wippleman aka Downtown Bruno has seen a revival of his pre-Whippleman exploits.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s life stories are still being tweaked by the show’s writers, Bruno told “WrestleZone”.
“It’s reality, but it’s fictionalized,” Bruno explained. “The stories are based on truth … it’s not a straight-up drama, but it’s a comedy as well. I guess we say it’s a ‘dramedy’ so they have to make it funny, they couldn’t just make it 100% realistic or it wouldn’t have any comedy to it. Basically, the stories are on the true side but fictionalized.”
In order to achieve a narrative economy, Bruno explained how he helped Johnson purchase his first car. However, the show portrayed Johnson’s friend from the pizza shop as the one who helped Dwayne buy it from “bums.” Even though the show exaggerates events for comedic effect, he maintained that a homeless man was in the backseat of Johnson’s car, exactly as it was shown on television.
