Inside GQ's Men of the Year 2025

It’s hard for Dwayne Johnson to hide. Wherever he goes, there he is—as conspicuous out in the world as he is on the silver screen. But after two decades of playing a version of himself in huge movies, suddenly he is ready to do something entirely new: vanish.

After immortalizing the whirlwind of the last four years—relapse, intervention, recovery—in his award-winning stand-up special, John Mulaney has emerged as one of the most popular comedians on earth. For his next trick, he’s embracing his surprising new role as a Southern California family man.

Riding along from Paris to Hollywood to New York with the Louis Vuitton men’s creative director, whose prolific and often prophetic contributions to fashion, film, and music have once again thrust him to the center of the pop culture Venn diagram.

With “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” he's got one of the biggest pop hits of all time—and he sang on a couple of songs with Beyoncé this year too. So we asked the great Shania Twain to help country’s biggest new star make sense of his explosive year.