So I asked the studio not to make a sequel.
And-- [CHUCKLES] --how wrong I was.
[LAUGHS]
The world has a way of changing.
But there's one thing that always stays the same.
The Fast and the Furious, the original, turns 20 this year.
Any cherished memories that you have
from shooting the original?
VIN DIESEL: Oh, my God.
So many incredible memories.
I remember, first, Paul and I meeting.
And there was a strange feeling, like we
would be brothers for life.
You know what you're doing?
I owe you a ten-second car.
VIN DIESEL: I've had so many great brothers
and friends in my life.
But there was something different about that bond.
And I had no idea that we would come
to be the definition of brotherhood
for this millennium.
I don't have friends.
I got family.
I have amazing memories, not only of shooting the franchise,
but of promoting the franchise. 'Cause that's also,
like, a huge part of it.
And I remember going to the Deauville Film Festival
with Paul and Michelle and Vin.
And at the time, we were hanging out with, like,
Heath Ledger and Tara Reid.
And it was just such an amazing moment in time.
And I also remember shooting in Brazil, where I grew up,
and what a badge of pride that was for me,
because it was like a homecoming.
And Fast and Furious Five is also one of my favorites,
along with 9 now.
There are many, many memories that I have.
And, I mean, it's been half my life now, which is crazy.
You need to get some sleep.
You definitely, definitely need a shower.
I can't help but feel like, sentimental around the whole,
like, rescue mission to get Ramsey.
Because it was such an epic sequence.
Like, throwing cars out of planes.
You know, all the amazing fights between, like,
Paul and Tony Jaa in the back of the bus
that Ramsey was being held in.
And I just remember, like, just thinking
it was such an epic set piece.
And I was like, ooh, and that's all to come and get--
[CHUCKLES] --to come and get me.
[LAUGHS] It was quite fun.
What are you going to do?
[ENGINE RUNNING]
You might want to put on your helmet for this one.
It would be more of the times that happened off screen
than there would be on screen.
We've had so many barbecues together,
and family outings, and birthdays, and celebrations.
All right, all right, all right.
Fire 'em up!
LUDACRIS: I would say it's a culmination of the time
we spend off camera, than it is the time
that we spend on camera.
Please tell me that's not a Pontiac Fiero
strapped to a rocket engine?
Impressive.
I know.
No.
No, that's-- that's not impressive.
SUNG KANG: You know, when we did Fast Five, that was really
the only film that all of us kind of lived
together in the same area.
So, you know, we hung out together all the time.
Like, we'd go to the mall together, go to the movies
together, go buy toothpaste together.
And, you know, that was when we actually--
I think everyone became a family.
It's like when we accepted everyone in each of us for,
you know, who we were.
It gave you time to eat together and spend time together.
We're now-- the movies are all over.
They're so big, you know, so we're in hotels here.
We don't have that time to, you know, have those memories.
The most important thing in life
will always be the people in this room.
Salud de familia.
Salud.
[BOTTLES CLANKING]
As a filmmaker, or, you know, in Hollywood, it
could be a very lonely place.
And to be able to do a 15-year run where we've literally
been able to grow up together.
And then we started our family.
And now we have kids, and our kids are growing together.
It was very special.
And I think that's always been kind of the spirit
of why we make these movies.
If we do this, we risk everything.
I didn't expect this to go 20 years.
In fact, after the first movie was released,
I was still under the impression that franchises or, if you
sequelize the movie, you destroy the opportunity of a movie
being a classic.
And so I wanted the first movie to be a classic.
And so I asked the studio not to make a sequel.
And-- [CHUCKLES] --how wrong I was.
[LAUGHS]
When you're a young actor, and you come from the theater
world, and you have this high expectations about how scripts
should be perfect by the time they get to you--
but that's not real.
You gotta do the work.
Yeah.
You find it on set and sometimes you find a brother on set, too.
And sometimes you find a brother on set that you never
imagined in your wildest dreams would
be so important to your very existence.
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