--- title: The Rock Meets Viral Kid Who Saved His Brother's Life description: The popular actor took the time to hang out with a young fan who recently saved a life after following The Rock's example. canonical: https://time.com/4929995/the-rock-jacob-oconnor/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-06T20:38:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:03.272Z og:title: Heartwarming Story Proves The Rock Is Still the Sweetest og:description: He met up with a heroic young fan for some mutual admiration og:url: https://time.com/4929995/the-rock-jacob-oconnor/ 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: Heartwarming Story Proves The Rock Is Still the Sweetest twitter:description: He met up with a heroic young fan for some mutual admiration twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Heartwarming Story Proves The Rock Was Just One of the Sweetest Guys Again  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 6, 2017 8:38 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 6, 2017 8:38 PM UTC Once again, [Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson](http://time.com/money/4910990/highest-paid-actor-mark-wahlberg-dwayne-rock-johnson/) showed us all how to be a nice guy. This time, the wrestler-turned-actor-turned met up with a young fan with a heartwarming story. According to the [_Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dwayne-johnson-meets-hero-boy-who-saved-brother-move-learned-san-andreas-1035489?utm%5Fsource=twitter), 10-year-old Jacob O’Connor from Detroit saved his younger brother from a fall into a pool this summer by emulating The Rock’s character in mega disaster movie [_San Andreas_](http://time.com/3902676/san-andreas-box-office/)_,_ in which Johnson plays a rescue helicopter pilot who performs chest compressions on another character in peril. After O’Connor’s story made headlines, The Rock discovered his young fan — and connected with him this week on the set of his upcoming film _Skyscraper_ in Vancouver. (O’Connor’s brother and mom came, too). Johnson shared the emotional interaction on social media, of course. “Jacob was super nervous and shy the whole time we hung out, so it was fun getting him to laugh and talk,” The Rock wrote on Instagram. “He threw me for an unexpected spin when he showed up on set wearing a shirt that he proudly made with my bull insignia on the front and on the back was the picture of me holding our two puppies, Brutus and Hobbs, after I rescued them from our pool. Seeing that picture on this boy’s shirt, got me in the gut… it was the fact that this 10yr old kid, had a heart big enough to put our puppies on his shirt after he saved his little 2yr old brother’s life.” He finished: “What a special day. What a special kid. Thanks Jacob for being awesome and for being the kind of person we all aspire to be.” The Rock Meets Viral Kid Who Saved His Brother's Life ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4929995/the-rock-jacob-oconnor/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4929995/the-rock-jacob-oconnor/"},"headline":"This Heartwarming Story Proves The Rock Was Just One of the Sweetest Guys Again","datePublished":"2017-09-06T20:38:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:03.272Z","description":"The popular actor took the time to hang out with a young fan who recently saved a life after following The Rock's example.","url":"https://time.com/4929995/the-rock-jacob-oconnor/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","the rock"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4929995/the-rock-jacob-oconnor/","name":"This Heartwarming Story Proves The Rock Was Just One of the Sweetest Guys Again"}}]}] ```