I don't think so when the The Rock's movie career started, that was when he was still wrestling full time and had not yet become the Hollywood star that he is today. He took time off from the WWE in 2001 (which was still the WWF) to film The Scorpion King (he already filmed The Mummy Returns the year before but it came out during his hiatus) and then he came back in the summer and stuck around until the spring of 2002 a few weeks after his WrestleMania X8 match with Hollywood Hulk Hogan. The Rock returned for the last time as a full time wrestler that summer when he won the WWE Championship for the last time defeating The Undertaker and Kurt Angle in a 3 way match at Vengeance. Then dropped the belt to Brock Lesnar at Summerslam. It wasn't until 2003 that The Rock started appearing a lot less than he used to, only wrestling for three months against Hulk Hogan and Stone Cold again, then lost to Goldberg and then he was gone for another year. Rocky was just slowly transitioning from wrestling to acting. I don't think he intended to leave wrestling behind until his contract with the WWE ran out at the end of 2004, where they didn't re-sign him. So him leaving wasn't really his fault, I think the fans were too bitter.
