Jeff Bezos presented Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson with an award at thePeople's Choice Awards .- Bezos cracked jokes about Johnson, including about how being bald is "a good look."
Who's bald and loves tequila? That's a trick question — it's Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Jeff Bezos.
The two moguls, pals, and sometimes-business associates discussed their friendship onstage at the People's Choice Awards Tuesday night. Bezos, the founder and executive chairman of
"You see, kindness is a choice, and what I admire most in Dwayne is his choice to show unwavering kindness to everyone around him," Bezos said onstage.
But Bezos also cracked a few jokes about Johnson, including about his penchant for $4 on "cheat days" and about his main resemblance to Bezos himself.
"Listen, there are so many ways to describe
He added: "Hey, it's a good look!"
For his part, Johnson thanked Bezos after accepting the award, calling him his "good friend Jeff, my drinking buddy, my tequila-drinking buddy Jeff."
The Bezos-Johnson friendship extends back to at least June, when $4 of himself wearing an Amazon polo shirt with his arm around Bezos on a beach. The caption teased an upcoming partnership between
"Shared passions and always putting in the hard work with our own two hands. I look forward to this one, brother," Johnson wrote, adding that "Teremana is on the way!" in reference to the small-batch tequila company he launched in March 2020.
It was announced soon after that Amazon would develop the Seven Bucks film "Red One," which is slated for a 2023 release. Amazon won the project after a "highly competitive bidding war," $4. Johnson told Deadline at the time that he's "very bullish on our partnership with Amazon Studios," and Garcia described it as "a long time in the making."