The Hollywood Wax Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee unveiled a statue of Kevin Hart last week.
Kevin Hart saw it and lost his mind.
What the museum didn't count on is that Hart isn't the first celebrity they've done this to – and this time the receipts are piling up.
Kevin Hart Sees His Hollywood Wax Museum Figure and Loses His Mind
Hart posted a video of the figure on Instagram set to the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme, which tells you everything about his mood.
The statue is dressed in a leather jacket and gold chain, arms spread wide like it's waiting for a hug.
The face has a lighter complexion than Hart, more hair, a sharper jawline. It looks, as one fan put it, like "Kevin The Weeknd."
Hart didn't use his inside voice.
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"WTTTTFFFFF…. What did I do to these people," he wrote. "This is an attack…. Who in the f— is this??????"
"At this point these museums are just trying to make me cry."
"I demand a redo damn it!!!!!!!"
Dwayne Johnson – Hart's Jumanji co-star and lifelong tormenter – jumped into the comments with four words: "It's PERFECT Don't change a thing."
The internet ran with it. Millions of views. Tens of thousands of comments.
Fan after fan asking who, exactly, the statue is supposed to be.
The Hollywood Wax Museum in Pigeon Forge Did the Same Thing to Lil Wayne
Here's where the story stops being funny and starts being a pattern.
The Hollywood Wax Museum in Pigeon Forge has been through this exact scenario before.
In the summer of 2022, the same museum unveiled a wax figure of Lil Wayne.
The face was wrong.
The skin tone was noticeably lighter than the rapper's actual complexion.
Fans called it out immediately – but the figure sat in the museum for over a year before a viral TikTok finally forced Wayne to respond publicly.
"Sorry wax museum but dat s*** ain't me," Wayne wrote on X. "You tried tho and I appreciate the effort."
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The museum never fixed it and never responded to press requests for comment.
Around the same time Wayne's figure went viral, Dwayne Johnson had to personally call out the Grévin Museum in Paris after his own wax figure debuted several shades lighter than his actual skin tone. Johnson – who is Black and Samoan – went public demanding changes.
"Starting with my skin color," he wrote.
The Paris museum issued a statement, began corrections immediately, and offered Johnson a champagne toast on his next visit.
The Pigeon Forge museum is still waiting on that Lil Wayne redo.
Kevin Hart Reacts and the Museum Still Has Not Responded
Here's the part the media won't focus on.
The Hollywood Wax Museum in Pigeon Forge has been displaying these figures – Lil Wayne, Kevin Hart, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, multiple visitor reviews calling them the worst in the building – and nobody held them accountable.
Not entertainment reporters. Not culture critics.
Not the people who would normally make this their entire personality on cable news.
It took the celebrities themselves going viral on their own platforms to make anyone notice.
Hart has 40 million Instagram followers.
He made it impossible to ignore.
Johnson has 392 million.
He just told every one of them the statue is perfect exactly as it is.
The museum still hasn't responded.
The pattern here isn't complicated.
A tourist attraction in Tennessee discovered that getting celebrity likenesses badly, repeatedly wrong costs them nothing – as long as the celebrity doesn't have a platform big enough to embarrass them globally.
Hart and Johnson between them reach more people than most television networks.
The museum is going to be very famous for a very long time.
Just not in the way they intended.
Sources:
- Brie Stimson, "Kevin Hart roasts his unrecognizable wax figure, asks 'who in the f— is this?'" Fox News, March 17, 2026.
- "Kevin Hart 'demands a redo' after unveiling of new wax figure," Mercury News, March 18, 2026.
- "Lil Wayne mocks Pigeon Forge wax museum's figure: 'You tried tho,'" Yahoo Entertainment, October 24, 2023.
- "The Rock, Lil Wayne aren't the only questionable wax figures," The Grio, October 25, 2023.
- "Lil Wayne Reacts To Viral Video Of His Wax Figure: 'Dat S— Ain't Me!'" Yahoo Entertainment, October 24, 2023.