Producer Scott Stuber was the person who came up with Dwayne Johnson for a character that was being dubbed “fat Jason Bourne.”
“I think the joke is different, I think it’s actually better,” Thurber told us during a quick break from filming.
Hart addressed the idea that he was playing more of the straight man to Johnson when we spoke to him later in the day.
In this buddy comedy said to be “in the vein of ‘Rush Hour,’” Kevin Hart plays accountant Calvin Joyner who reunites with an old schoolmate Bob Stone (Johnson) via the internet.