(CNN) � Dwayne Johnson has heard the complaints about his wax figure and says he’s doing something about it.
a museum in Paris, France, that specializes in wax figures of famous people, came under fire recently for a sculpture of Johnson that many found to be too light skinned to represent the actor, who is multi-ethnic.
Some people took to social media to accuse the museum of “white washing� the figure of the “Black Adam� star, commenting that the recently unveiled likeness suffered from a “melanin deficiency.�
Johnson, whose late father, the wrestler Rocky Johnson, was of Black Nova Scotian descent and his mother, Ata Maivia, is Samoan, saw the outrage and addressed it Sunday
Johnson posted a video of comedian James Andre Jefferson talking about the wax figure and wrote in the caption, “I knew my boy @jamesjeffersonj had this Rock wax statue in his roasting crosshair.�
“‘Is this how y’all felt when you lost the Little Mermaid?’� he quoted Jefferson as saying, adding a laughing emoji.
“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,� Johnson wrote.
, “After Dwayne Johnson was chosen at the first edition of the Grévin Awards, sculptor Stéphane Barret had to rely on photos and videos to create a statue as close to reality as possible, without the presence of the international star.�
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