Episode 28: Australian Actress Lexie Duncan - Young Rock - Hosted by Finlay Christie

NBC’s highly anticipated production focuses on different chapters of Dwayne Johnson’s life. Lexie explains how she play’s the character “Karen”. Johnson’s 15 Year old girlfriend through his time attending Freedom High School in Bethlehem Pennsylvania…”I love Karen as a character because she is so much more than what you initially see.  Karen can easily be labelled as the popular rich girl, who’s very materialistic and sometimes kind of mean”, the actress explains.  Going onto point out that it was initially a challenge to workout Karen’s many layers, but felt she understood her on a much deeper level. Through her preparation for the role, she explains how she could not ignore the reason behind Dwayne’s infatuation with her.  To help the audience understand why Dwayne would want to pursue such a high maintenance character, Duncan did her best to play against the stereotype, where she could.  In doing so, discovering that Karen was not necessarily a mean girl; simply an individual who did not hide her opinions – without the filter.