So how did it feel for both of you
to join the Fast and Furious franchise?
Pretty good. Really pretty surreal.
Yeah, I'm still like
I'm still buzzing out about it. Really?
Yeah, it's pretty good. No.
On a dream dream come true.
You know, and then come in, you know, everything's been off, right?
Just with the world and
it being pushed back and stuff.
And then when you see it and you're like reminded,
you're like, oh, yeah, I was a part of that.
And then now you're here
and you're like, oh, yeah, I'm a part of it, you know, and it feels good.
It's just a dream come true.
Oh, yeah. And even just doing an in-person interview,
you're doing everything on Zoom was great.
Yeah. This feels amazing.
It's very different. Yeah, totally.
Now, Vinnie, you play younger Dom.
So how do you think that his relationship with his father and losing
his father shaped him as a person?
I think that is kind of what kicked off the entire
his his whole journey of the run up to the person that we know now.
You know, he definitely idolized his his dad.
He was everything to him.
He just kind of who I feel like he wanted to grow up to be.
And so to lose him,
it really, you know, really sent him kind of off the rails.
But I guess it kind of
encouraged him to kind of bring his family even closer together.
And I think that that's where a lot of the the the family, kind of
the family feel of everything kind of stems from his his kind of
need to kind of keep his loved ones closed.
And JD playing Jack Toretto, what do you think
he would have wanted for his kids?
I think he was he wanted his.
I think he wanted his kids to be.
I mean, like any parent better, if you will, than than they were,
you know, to to not have to learn the lessons that they've learned.
And from the beginning, that's what Jack was just trying to teach Dom was,
you know, control yourself, basically,
because the world is going to get crazy.
And there's all these elements.
And the way you're going to
you know, you may not
be able to control everything around you, but you can control yourself
and and you get to kind of experience a little bit of that
with with Jack's back story and knowing that he got caught up in some things
that he couldn't really control. But,
yeah, I think that just wanted them to be better men.
And this franchise has been so successful.
We now see a second generation of fans going to the movies.
Why do you think that is?
It's entertaining.
You know, the cars that never gets old. Right.
And every time I think now you really watch it as well to see like,
well, how big are they going to go now?
You know, because it just keeps getting bigger and bigger, so.
Yeah, I think yeah. Like,
you know, there's a lot of
kids who grew up playing with Hot Wheels, you know, the cars.
And I feel like this is kind of the this is like pretty much surreal,
that it's almost everything that you do with you because when you're a kid. Oh.
Oh, yeah. Totally crazy.
This is. Yeah, this is it. Yeah.
And has your driving change since you've made this movie?
Oh, no. You know, I'm a dad now, so I just I, I
like to cruise, you know,
and maybe I'll rev it up a little bit, you know, in the driveway.
Okay. That's okay.
That's good. The school.
I mean, I, I don't I'm
not a huge fan of of speed, but definitely since
since I've been a part of this project, I, I
definitely feel a bit more
confident sitting there in the driver's seat training the kids.
Now, I get tap into that in the dumb to it.
I still keep it at a reasonable sweeper.
Yeah. You've adapted to the L.A.
way of driving. Yeah.
Yeah, it took me it took me a while.
But yeah, we we're good now.
And either of you ever received a speeding ticket? Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. But you know, it's not something like
now I like when you have to go to driving school again and do all that stuff.
Like, I hate that it's such a waste of time thing.
I just have to do that here.
Well, yeah, because it's
like if you don't, then you get like a point and your record
and then like the insurance goes up and makes everything else. Yeah.
So but if you go to driving school,
by the way, I don't even know
if it still is like accurate today because it's been a while. It's like that.
Yeah. Yeah, but if you go to driving school then you don't
get the point on your record and like the insurance doesn't go
it like doesn't hear about like it's all like it's it's squashed. Right.
But it's like it's like hours of driving is how long, you know, testing
and you know, like a green light means go.
Well, thank you so much for chatting to.
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Thank you so much.