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Students from St Gregory Primary School successful Sudbury could not judge their eyes erstwhile The Rock appeared astatine a Moana event
ByJo Blackat Potters Field Park, London and George King
Primary schoolhouse pupils had the astonishment of their lives erstwhile a travel to London turned into a face-to-face red-carpet gathering with wrestler-turned-Hollywood megastar Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
About 50 students from St Gregory Primary School successful Sudbury, Suffolk, went to the superior connected Tuesday for what they believed would beryllium a modular "old-fashioned" excursion.
Little did they cognize they would beryllium attending the Moana Experience, an immersive lawsuit organised successful enactment of the upcoming unrecorded enactment adaption of the deed 2016 film.
Better still, the Years 3 and 4 students besides got to conscionable Maui himself.
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The Rock took clip to talk to the students astatine the event
"It was awesome [to conscionable them] and they were losing their minds and going bonkers and going crazy," helium told the BBC.
"That's the amusive portion of fame and the champion portion of fame. This benignant of worldly is important."
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The Rock and Catherine Laga'aia appeared astatine a Moana Experience lawsuit successful London
The star-studded encounter, astatine Potters Field Park adjacent to the River Thames, was arranged by Disney and the school's headteacher, Daniel Woodrow.
They collaborated aft the pupils recorded a societal media video successful January successful the anticipation of getting The Rock's attention.
Woodrow had told pupils that if the erstwhile WWE prima saw the clip, helium would instrumentality them to spot the caller Moana movie for their end-of-year schoolhouse trip.
It rapidly went viral and succeeded successful catching the attraction of the actor, who sent backmost a video connection promising to prosecute retired a cinema for them and their friends and household to ticker the film.
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Dwayne Johnson's peculiar video connection was shown to students during an assembly
The 54-year-old besides offered to wage for their sweets and snacks.
In The Rock's four-minute video, helium added that helium was "so moved" by the clip and it was "so cool" for them to effort to interaction him.
"I heard you guys were super, ace pumped and excited to spot unrecorded enactment Moana, truthful I'm going to find a theatre, rent it out, and you guys are going to spot Moana," helium told them.
"Love you guys, support doing large successful schoolhouse and, arsenic Maui says, 'You're welcome'."
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The Rock posed for a selfie with the excited Suffolk schoolhouse students
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