>>13675485He was instructed to start talking in 3rd person because of NFL guys like Deion Sanders. Supposedly he would talk in third person like "Well Deion Sanders says this and Deion Sanders says that". This was according to JR, and has been confirmed by Rock as well.
https://sports.yahoo.com/takeaways-time-magazine-feature-story-210320885.html?guccounter=1“So much of the character and the entity of the Rock came from Prime. One of the characteristics of the character of the Rock was talking in the third person. Deion would say certain things in the third person. I always found that so f—ing cool. Because he walked the walk.”
