A wax museum in Paris displayed the statue of The Rock, but the reaction was not what was expected.
The Musée Grévin, a museum modeled after London's Madame Tussauds, unveiled the actor's wax figure last week, but it quickly drew backlash online.
"They whitewashed The Rock," wrote one user on X (formerly known as Twitter). Instagram account Shade Room deemed the statue "deficient in melanin."
The Rock was born in California; his mother is Samoan (the indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands), while his father is of African descent, but was born in Canada.
The Rock spoke out in a comment on comedian James Andre Jefferson Jr.'s Instagram. that the statue made him feel somewhat "offended". He added that his team reached out to friends at the Grevin Museum in order to rework the statue.
"And next time I'm in Paris, I'll stop by and have a drink with myself," the actor said.
