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Vin Diesel on Fast & Furious
By Fred Topel | Images property of Universal Pictures
Fast and the Furious fans got a taste of Vin Diesel's return as Dominic Toretto in a cameo at the end of Tokyo Drift. For the fourth film, Fast & Furious, he's back for good.
Vin Diesel Talks Fast & Furious
"The timing was finally right," Diesel said. "What led to that was a series of events. First and foremost, I had the luxury of working with Sidney Lumet. And boy does that absolve you from being too stereotyped because at least it's on record, right? Though very few people saw the movie, it's on record. It's a departure from the franchise films."
Artistic integrity doesn't explain what Dominic Toretto's been doing as two sequels went on without him though. "Finding an entry point to revisit this character is what took so long. Eight years, because you know, I don't just do sequels in a reactionary way. It makes a lot of money, let's do another one immediately without working out the story, as you know never worked. I take a little bit longer. I make sure that I can feel it. I make sure that there is an entry point for my character and that we really, really, really in a real way worked out the continuation of a story. Am I idealistic and feel like sequels should be more Coppola-like? Yes. So in that I am saying when we were able to work out a continuation to this story in an interesting way that could lead to its own story as you see in the end of this movie, I was ready to do it."
Fast & Furious
There's also the knowledge that he'd have to eat crow if he finally came back and it didn't work. "When I'm thinking about going back and doing Dom Toretto so many years later after everybody knows I said no the past two times, it's loaded, right? If you guys were my reps, it would be an interesting conversation. You'd be like, 'Well, I don't know, Vin. Do you really want to take that chance? You said no so many times. You come back now, you're setting yourself up. The odds are going to be stacked against you.'" We've had that conversation. If we were all talking about this before the fact, and we were all representative, managers and agents, we'd be thinking, 'Huh? You wanna really go for this one, Vin? It, uh, it's kinda, you know, you said no to the other ones. You dragged it out this long and now you're going to tell everyone you're ready?'"
It doesn't look like that'll be a worry, as early audiences are eating up his return. "Am I relieved that people enjoyed it? That feels good. I revel in the idea that people appreciate the work. I revel in the idea, you know I love it when somebody says they pick up on a subtlety or a nuance or a spirit or a theme of character or when somebody can pick up on the comment on society and where we are. All those things are riveting and charge me."
Fast & Furious opens to theaters on June 5th.
For the trailers, posters, stills and more movie info, go to the Fast & Furious Movie Page.
Fred Topel
Sources: Images property of Universal Pictures
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