After receiving a complaint from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, a French museum is scrambling to fix a wax replica of him.
A wave of criticism was directed at the Grevin Museum in Paris after it proudly displayed the life-sized statue of the wrestler-turned-actor earlier this month.
The model’s skin tone was one of the largest, with people accusing the designer of “whitewashing” the star, who is of two different ancestries.
Managers of the museum swore to “rework” it after The Rock joined the fray.
“Update my wax figure with some crucial details, starting with my skin tone,” he pleaded.
The waxwork would be updated “all night,” according to museum director Yves Delhommeau, who told the AFP news agency, to meet “fans’ expectations.”
He also attributed the model’s skin tone to a “lighting issue” and promised to fix it.
The Rock would visit the museum “later to see if there are other modifications that need to be made,” according to Mr. Delhommeau.
The artist Stéphane Barret had to rely on photographs and films to build the sculpture, according to the museum, which exhibited the wax figure in Paris on October 16.
According to a press release, the “painstaking” labour involved three different iterations of the model’s eyes.
The Rock was born in California to a Samoan mother and a black Nova Scotian father.
Wayde Douglas Bowles, his father, was a wrestler who competed under the ring name Rocky Johnson and was a member of the first black tag team to capture a WWE championship.
The Grevin Museum was contacted by BBC Newsbeat for additional comment, but no response was received.
Additionally, a spokesman for The Rock has been approached for comment.