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  • -My next guest is a great actor, a 16-time WWE world champion

  • and a best-selling author.

  • You can also see him in a Super Bowl commercial

  • for Mountain Dew Major Melon.

  • Here is John Cena!

  • [ Laughs ]

  • Wow!

  • -Hello, Jimmy Fallon! -Wow, John!

  • This is unbelievable.

  • I knew that you were going to do something.

  • -This is my job.

  • -This is your -- Wait, I love it.

  • This is Peacemaker?

  • -This is the first actual interview that Peacemaker

  • has ever done, and I wanted to bestow it upon you,

  • and it's a really special occasion.

  • So thanks for having me, man.

  • I love being there in person, but because we're miles away,

  • I wanted to -- I wanted Peacemaker to show up.

  • -Wait, I love this. Wait.

  • I have so many questions because this is --

  • We talked last time you were here.

  • You were our first guest in studio, by the way.

  • Thank you for doing that.

  • And you said you're doing a spin-off series for Peacemaker,

  • and here you are as -- Are you on set?

  • -Yeah, so this is actually Peacemaker's house,

  • and on the contrary, Peacemaker was like a polar opposite

  • of Bruce Wayne, where Bruce Wayne

  • would be a billionaire with a bat cave.

  • I live in a single-wide and this is my outfit.

  • So it's a bit of an interesting story and a bit of a new tale.

  • -How do you describe this character?

  • -I would say like a douchey, bro-y Captain America.

  • -[ Laughs ]

  • I love it. Can you show --

  • Do you have pants? Do you have a cape?

  • What do you have?

  • -Oh, dude, if you want it to get weird,

  • I'll show you the full piece.

  • Is this what you want? -[ Laughs ]

  • No, no, I don't want to get weird.

  • No, no, I don't want to get weird.

  • This is unbelievable. I love that you did this.

  • That comes out in August, right, "The Suicide Squad"?

  • -Yes, in August, and then "Peacemaker" will be out

  • shortly after that on HBO Max.

  • -I heard this rumor about you in the movie --

  • and let me know if it's true --

  • that one of the most difficult scenes in the movie

  • involved you eating an empanada.

  • We have a photo of some -- -Oh, man.

  • The stunts were incredible

  • and filming the movie was treacherous,

  • but that right there is the face of defeat.

  • That is me eating my 37th of 40 empanadas.

  • We had to do this one big take because the horribly beautiful,

  • corrupted mind of James Gunn operates

  • in so many intricate pieces, and he wanted this big, giant

  • take where I thought it'd be cool to like,

  • "Oh, it'd be funny to eat the whole empanada.

  • Throw the thing over my shoulder, the guy catches it.

  • It's gonna be great.

  • Everybody's gonna think it's awesome."

  • I had to do it 40 times and nearly ate myself sick,

  • and you can tell by that picture I was not having a good day.

  • That was my most difficult stunt in "The Suicide Squad."

  • -Could we see that photo one more time?

  • It's just such a good photo. It has to just --

  • [ Laughs ] Oh, my God. Is that number 38?

  • -If that doesn't turn out to be some sort of meme,

  • then the meme culture is dead!

  • -[ Laughs ] Exactly, right?

  • John, I read that last year was the first year

  • that you weren't able to compete in WWE Raw

  • since 2004, but you will be back, right?

  • -Yeah, I will. I just, unfortunately, you know,

  • the state of the world, I mean, I'm not sitting there

  • on the couch next to you.

  • It's a difficult and unpredictable time,

  • and right now I'm doing this.

  • I'm filming "Peacemaker," and that's going to take a lot

  • of my time and I can't bounce back and forth

  • due to international restrictions.

  • So at least for the time being, I'm here,

  • and I'm still away from WWE,

  • but I very much look forward to returning

  • as soon as I possibly can.

  • -You really are one of the hardest working guys I know.

  • In the middle of everything you're doing,

  • you're also in a Super Bowl commercial this year.

  • I want to talk about this commercial

  • because it's for the new Mountain Dew Major Melon,

  • and this is your second -- this is your second --

  • -Yeah, man, let's talk about it.

  • -This is your second Super Bowl commercial.

  • And it's just interesting to me.

  • -I know, back-to-back Super Bowls.

  • I mean, this is incredible, second Super Bowl commercial.

  • This is great.

  • -I mean, I hate to cut you off and everything like that,

  • but last year I asked you to be in a Super Bowl commercial

  • with me and this year, you're in a commercial.

  • I just find it interesting that, uh...

  • [ Laughs ] That you didn't ask me to be in it.

  • -Oh, yeah! No, no, no.

  • So, long story short, Mountain Dew Major Melon

  • came to me and said, "You know what?

  • We want to do this awesome Super Bowl commercial

  • that's gonna reinvent advertising and the way

  • people watch the big game.

  • Who do you want your sidekick to be?"

  • I said, "Of course, I want it to be Jimmy Fallon."

  • They said, "We can do that or we can give away,

  • on behalf of Mountain Dew Major Melon,

  • a million dollars and change somebody's life."

  • So I thought to myself, "What would Jimmy Fallon do?

  • Jimmy Fallon is a man of the people.

  • Jimmy Fallon would want to change someone's life."

  • Jimmy, don't you want to give someone

  • the chance to win a million dollars?

  • -Yes!

  • -Yeah, so screw you being in the Super Bowl commercial.

  • You're the man that's gonna be the vehicle to give somebody

  • a million dollars if they can identify all the bottles of

  • Mountain Dew Major Melon in the big game's commercial.

  • -Now, okay.

  • I feel a little bit better about this.

  • So basically what you're saying is if you watch the commercial

  • during the Super Bowl and you have to count how many

  • Major Melon bottles are in the commercial?

  • If you can count them and -- -This one's a layup.

  • Everyone's already gonna be watching the Super Bowl.

  • Watch the Mountain Dew Major Melon commercial

  • because you're gonna be watching all of the commercials,

  • count the number of Mountain Dew Major Melon bottles

  • that you see, post it, and tag Mountain Dew's Twitter handle.

  • And if you're right, you can win a million dollars,

  • and that's, in a long way, thanks to you, Jimmy Fallon.

  • -Wow. -Thanks to you.

  • -I just want to say I'm honored

  • and I can't wait to see what I do.

  • -You're gonna change somebody's life.

  • -Yeah. -You're gonna change

  • somebody's life. -See?

  • -Jimmy Fallon giving away a million bucks.

  • -I love you and I love that you're doing this.

  • Do you want to play a game when we come back?

  • -I would love to! -Here we go.

  • -I don't know how you're gonna slap me with a fish,

  • me being 3,000 miles away,

  • but, yes, I'll play a game with you.

  • -More with John Cena after the break.

  • Stick around, everybody.

-My next guest is a great actor, a 16-time WWE world champion

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