John Cena reveals why he was 'blacklisted' from Hollywood for five years

John Cena has spoken out about being blacklisted from Hollywood for several years, saying he was ‘run out’ of the business.

Cena was originally best known for his record-breaking career as a WWE wrestler, a career that is coming to an end later this year.

For many, however, John Cena is now arguably about as well-known as an actor as he was prior to this as a wrestler.

Whilst promoting his new season of the TV show Peacemaker though he revealed some home truths about his acting career.

As well as speaking about his now infamous graphic sex scene with Amy Schumer in Trainwreck he opened up about being run out of Hollywood and why, in his eyes, they were right to do so.

His role in Trainwreck revitalised his film career (Universal Studios)

As John Cena attests himself in the interview with Vanity Fair where he looks back at his own career, the opening to his acting career was fairly cr*p.

His first big acting role was The Marine in 2006, a bland action film which sits at 4.8/10 on IMDb and 17 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

Despite spawning five sequels all starring different WWE stars, the movie is widely agreed to be rubbish.

He followed this up with roles in films such as Fred: The Movie and a number of one off episodes of TV shows.

Speaking about filming The Marine in the Vanity Fair interview Cena said that it came off the back of his ‘fiery start’ to the WWE in which he was World Champion and wrestling in different towns 320 days a year.

John Cena in The Marine (20th Century Studios)

Cena spoke about how, due to his hot start and the fast-paced nature of the WWE, it was a culture shock to be flown out to wait in silence and film ‘one explosion a day’.

The actor admitted he ‘hated it’, saying: “I just wasn’t ready for it, I didn’t appreciate the patience of it.

“I didn’t appreciate those opportunities… I did a lot of s**tty movies and that’s why I didn’t do movies for a while.

“I should have got run out of town. I didn’t appreciate it, I was doing movies to sell more tickets for wrestling.”

The actor also spoke at a Fan Expo in Denver earlier this year where he said: “I got run out of the movie business once for making too many bad movies, and then I got another chance, and I’m very grateful for that.”

Cena went five years where his only film roles were movies centred around early internet megastar Fred and playing himself in a Scooby Doo WWE crossover.

This dry spell was ended with Trainwreck where he said Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow ‘took a chance on him’.

Now, he is one of the most recognisable and well-known actors around ahead of his upcoming retirement from wrestling.