Dwayne Johnson’s wax figure being updated on Oct. 24 at the Grévin Museum in Paris., 2023 at the.Photo:STEFANO RELLANDINI/AFP via Getty

An employee adjusts the skin tone on the wax effigy of Dwayne Johnson, after the US actor complained about its pale skin tone, at the Grevin museum in Paris on October 24, 2023.

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Dwayne Johnson’s wax figure at a French museum is getting a redo after backlash about its skin tone.

Days after the Musée Grévin in Paris unveiled theBlack Adamactor’s life-size figure, Johnson, 51, spoke out about it, saying he wouldcontact the museum to work on"updating" the wax figure.

“For the record, I’m going to have my team reach out to our friends at Grevin Museum, in Paris France so we can work at ‘updating’ my wax figure here with some important details and improvements- starting with my skin color,” he wrote on Instagram, including a laughing emoji.

“And next time I’m in Paris, I’ll stop in and have a drink with myself,” added Johnson, whose mom is Samoan and late father was Black.

Yves Delhommeau, managing director of Musée Grévin, said in avideoon Instagram that they got a “big surprise” when the figure’s “skin tone seemed too pale” when put under lights.

“We suddenly realized we might have got it wrong,” he said in the clip.

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Dwayne Johnson’s wax figure being updated on Oct. 24 at the Grevin Museum in Paris.STEFANO RELLANDINI/AFP via Getty

An employee adjusts the skin tone on the wax effigy of Dwayne Johnson, after the US actor complained about its pale skin tone, at the Grevin museum in Paris on October 24, 2023.

Delhommeau said the team of artists worked from photos of Johnson, claiming the actor “looks very different from one photo to the next.” He added that they would continue to improve the wax figure.

VarietyreportedWednesday that the museum officially updated the figure, making the skin color darker before reinstalling it on display.

The Dwayne Johnson wax figure before the update, shown here on Oct. 16, 2023.Marc Piasecki/Getty

The Dwayne Johnson wax figure is unveiled at Musee Grevin on October 16, 2023 in Paris, France.

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Veronique Berecz, a spokesperson for Musée Grévin, said, according to the outlet, they “found [Johnson’s] reaction rather friendly when addressing the fact that his figure was indeed whiter than it should have been.”

Dwayne Johnson on March 12, 2023.Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty

Dwayne Johnson at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023

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According to Musée Grévin’swebsite, Johnson’s “tattoos took the painters 10 days of painstaking work and a lot of research,” and the eyes “had to be redone three times to avoid too dark a tint making the star’s face too hard and erasing its warm aspect.”

source: people.com