--- title: The Rock and Kevin Hart Can Impersonate Each Other Perfectly description: Watch "Central Intelligence" co-stars Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Kevin Hart do spot-on impressions, ending up laughing until they cry. canonical: https://time.com/4393341/the-rock-kevin-hart-laugh-cry-impersonate/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-05T15:58:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:02.632Z og:title: The Rock and Kevin Hart Can Impersonate Each Other Perfectly og:description: The "Central Intelligence" co-stars make each other laugh until they cry og:url: https://time.com/4393341/the-rock-kevin-hart-laugh-cry-impersonate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Rock and Kevin Hart Can Impersonate Each Other Perfectly twitter:description: The "Central Intelligence" co-stars make each other laugh until they cry twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Rock and Kevin Hart Laughed So Hard They Cried While Impersonating Each Other > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 5, 2016 3:58 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 5, 2016 3:58 PM UTC Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Kevin Hart are having [way too much fun](http://time.com/4373093/the-rock-candy-jimmy-fallon/?iid=sr-link3) on the press tour promoting their buddy comedy, [_Central Intelligence_](http://time.com/4372741/central-intelligence-review/?iid=sr-link1). Case in point: this role-reversal “interview” with [The LAD Bible](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4oVjJptcsvtgIMrdIUQYlQ), where the two chummy co-stars impersonate each other — and then have to answer questions about each other. Hart, a practiced comedian, kicks things off with a solid Rock swagger and some of the former wrestler’s signature vocal and physical tics. The Rock, meanwhile, comes in strong by imitating Hart’s [fast-talking](http://time.com/4371405/kevin-hart-james-corden-rap-battle/?iid=sr-link5) mannerisms. “The beauty… the beauty of… there’s a thing. There’s a thing, and this thing, this thing… you can’t… it’s… when you get a… it’s like taking a… let’s say we got a weight, right? You gonna pick it up, nine times out of then, you can’t do a set with it. That’s… where we gel,” Hart riffs as The Rock, describing the working relationship of the two in a seriously elliptical ramble. “He’s doing a lot of things, we just do big things around here, big things,” The Rock adds. But the two actors can barely get through the interview, as they just keep cracking each other up — finally ending in tears of laughter. 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