By Express News Service
Actor Vin Diesel has confessed that he was unsure about being a part of the Fast And Furious franchise when it started.
“Universal ended up being concerned within the launch of Pitch Black, the one different film I had accomplished of that measurement, and they also mentioned, ‘We got this movie that’s about unlawful avenue automotive racing, and we would like you to play this character, who’s a troublesome man, outlaw, with a coronary heart and a code’.
“Then they describe that scene you see in the first movie, where the camera goes through my eye and down my arm and into the engine, and that’s the only thing they described. And I said, ‘Yes, I’m in!’” he mentioned in an interview with Entertainment Weekly’s ‘Binge’ podcast
However, Diesel began having doubts after a while. “The next day I’m supposed to go the premiere in Australia for ‘Pitch Black’, and I read the script and I go — I’m conflicted here because this script is not what I thought it would be,” he recalled.
The script was then altered, which is when he was comfy with the mission. “The irony is, I felt like I had gotten what the character wanted to be in the first script, but I felt there were things conflicting with this truth – and that’s where David (Ayer) came in. I remember him saying, ‘The Dom character is so complex, I’ve never seen anything like it since Alonzo (Denzel Washington’s Oscar-winning role in Training Day). I appreciated that he was able to see the complexities of the character,” he mentioned. “Some other characters needed some fine-tuning as well, like the Letty character. I’m just so lucky they were open to it all and that they really wanted me to feel great and confident about it,” he added.
