Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson wants to find whoever made Rebecca Ferguson's life miserable

While half of the Internet tries to figure out where Kate Middleton is, the other half has become occupied with a new question: what actor screamed at Rebecca Ferguson? The mystery derives from an interview Ferguson gave for Dune: Part Two, where she shared a harrowing tale about an anonymous “absolute idiot of a co-star” who made her life hell on set “back in the day.” Though she did her best not to give this person’s identity away, as soon as the clip hit Twitter/X, everyone immediately began to wonder who the star might be—including her Hercules co-star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

Here’s the story: “I remember there was a moment and this human being was being so insecure and angry because this person couldn’t get the scenes out. And I think I was so vulnerable and uncomfortable that I got screamed at. But because this person was number one on a call sheet, there was no safety net for me. So no one had my back. And I would cry walking off set,” she shared. “This person would literally look at me in front of the whole crew and say, ‘You call yourself an actor? This is what I have to work with?’ What is this?’ And I stood there just breaking.”

The next day, Ferguson said, she came in and told the actor to “get off my set.” Despite being “so scared,” she “looked at this person and I said, ‘You can F off. I’m gonna work towards a tennis ball. I never want to see you again.’ And then I remember the producers came up and said, ‘You can’t do this to number one. We have to let this person be on set.’”

Instead, she requested to act to the back of the actor’s head. “I thought, it shouldn’t have to be that way. And I remember going to the director afterward and saying, ‘What is happening?’And the director said, ‘You’re right. I am not taking care of everyone else. I’m trying to fluff this person because it’s so unstable,’” she recalled, noting that she can still feel the fear she experienced during the confrontation. “And it was great from that moment, but it took so long for me to get to that.”

As the actor predicted, folks who saw the interview quickly drew up a list of suspects. This list was narrowed down to her films’ top-billed stars, and two of them were taken out of the running by Ferguson herself: Hugh Jackman of The Greatest Showman and Tom Cruise of Mission: Impossible. As the investigation heated up, Johnson rushed to take himself out of the running. “Hate seeing this but love seeing her stand up to bullshit,” the WWE alum posted on Twitter/X. “Rebecca was my guardian angel sent from heaven on our set. I love that woman. I’d like to find out who did this.”

Well, Twitter detectives have their theories. It’s probably not Emily Blunt, whom Ferguson has praised glowingly since starring in The Girl On The Train together. Of her major Hollywood movies, possibilities include Doctor Sleep’s Ewan McGregor, Men In Black: International’s Chris Hemsworth, The Snowman’s Michael Fassbender, Life’s Jake Gyllenhaal, or someone from Florence Foster Jenkins (it seems unlikely that Ferguson would tell Meryl Streep to “F off,” but is Hugh Grant close enough to the top of the call sheet to count?). Additional clues include that the set “wasn’t a safe director” or a “safe environment” (as opposed to Dune, for which she praised director Denis Villeneuve and Warner Bros.). Of course, that could also indicate Hercules, which was helmed by disgraced director Brett Ratner, whom she specifically said she didn’t want to “promote” in the same interview. But if Johnson says “wasn’t me,” well…

It’s inevitable that people would become curious about the actor’s identity after Ferguson told this story (especially given the history of bad behavior behind the scenes in Hollywood). But, beyond becoming empowered to speak up for herself on set, Ferguson looks back on the situation now with a shrug. “[Everyone] changes, you know what I mean?” She concluded the tale, giving a bit of grace to her mystery offender. In other words, stand down, The Rock, it’s all water under the bridge now.