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Dwayne Johnson officiates surprise wedding for superfan Nick Mundy

Two years after meeting his childhood idol Dwayne Johnson in what has been called the worst interview ever, superfan Nick Mundy's dream came true when The Rock officiated his wedding in a surprise-slash-prank ceremony.

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Two years after meeting his childhood idol Dwayne Johnson in what has been called the worst interview ever, superfan Nick Mundy's dream came true when The Rock officiated his wedding in a surprise-slash-prank ceremony.

Mundy, part of the team behind film and entertainment site Screen Junkies, is a huge fan of The Rock. Obsessive, you might say.

So when he got the chance to interview him in 2013 during a press junket for the film Pain & Gain, nothing was going to rob him of this opportunity — even if he'd never done a press interview before in his life.

In the ensuing interview, Mundy babbles incoherently for several minutes while his idol politely stares and nods. A Paramount executive called Mundy's work "the worst interviews I've ever seen."

That disaster, however, was comedy gold for Screen Junkies' YouTube audience. Mundy has gone on to interview Johnson on multiple film promotional tours, all of them including bizarre hijinks between the two.

In an interview for Furious 7, Mundy casually asked if Johnson could be the best man at his upcoming wedding. 

While Johnson declined, he and the Screen Junkies team took that idea and spun it into the prank of a lifetime — one with a fairytale ending.

Mundy was told that he was supposed to pitch a comedic skit involving Johnson during a press tour for San Andreas. What he didn't know is that Rocky's PR team had been instructed to reject every idea he gave them.

Johnson ordained to make it official

A frazzled Mundy later ran into Johnson, who was dressed in a tuxedo. He lead Mundy into a room prepared for a wedding — his wedding — complete with his friends and family. Johnson said he would officiate Mundy's wedding with his fiancée, right at that moment. Johnson had been officially ordained by the state of California just for the occasion.

Mundy wore a look of shock as his friend quickly draped a formal jacket over him. His fiancée Dilara Karabas walked down the aisle. Johnson pronounced them man and wife. Mundy kissed the bride.

"My first thought was, 'Oh shit, oh shit. I hope Dilara is cool with this,'" Mundy told The Hollywood Reporter. "The second one was, 'I have hat-hair, I'm sweating and wearing American flag pants.'

"The whole thing was insane," he said.

Karabas and her family spent months planning the surprise wedding with the Screen Junkies team and Johnson's publicists. Their marriage is indeed now official, but they still plan on having the ceremony they originally planned, this September.