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Jason Statham knows how to get our
hearts racing and he's doing that again
in the new film the fate of the Furious
he's reprising his role as Deckard Shaw
who's forced to team up with the gang
when beaten Vin Diesel's character goes
rogue well I actually got a chance to
sit down with Jason recently to talk
about the film his upcoming 50th
birthday and there may have been a few
push-ups involved oh no that color looks
good on you yeah look a whole hell of a
lot better with your blood on it yeah
good luck with that Hercules lumen gone
bad huh such a cliche oh well welcome to
the club I wouldn't get that twisted son
we ain't in no club we got nothing in
common and I'm like you I ain't gonna be
here long well you bring a shovel did
you just study 8 feet of steel in
concrete well shut up in top
better get to diggin
good to see ya you know this character
Deckard Shaw when we first met him in 7
he was a villain now you know not to
give too much away but he's teaming up
with the game well yeah yeah I mean he
is I'm just I'm trying to get the my
head around being the villain I mean is
he is a villain in some ways it depends
where you're looking at it what
perspective it is I sit because you know
Deckard sure in 7 was trying to do a
favor for his brothers rather do
something and you know it put things
straight that needed to be put right now
we find a little bit more out about
Deckard shirring that's in terms of what
he's really stands for
and his mum seems to be the controlling
factor which was spectacular with health
and Mirren is your mom yeah you know
element Helen Mirren is to a prick like
you know it's she is royalty so to be
able to do any scene any on-screen
moment with Helen is er is something
that's a pretty priceless you know you
know in this movie you and Dwayne
Johnson's character you guys have this
almost like this this a hashtag battle
this is Mike ballot yeah I mean they
were were you having as good a time as
it seems
you know Twain his to ease would he's
bigger and louder and funnier than you
could ever imagine I mean if he ain't
all that already so to do stuff with him
is uh you know he loves it he loves
doing what he does he's a hard graft
presence' and he has a good time doing
it so when you when you're trying to rip
each other to shreds
you know verbally and physically it
becomes very very very fun this see some
of these scenes that your fight scenes
are so unbelievably physical how much
training do you have to go through it
for this was are you trying for a
specific movie uh if you're involved in
action movies you know it's something
that you do on a daily basis whether
you're prepping a film or not you just
tend to do it because you feel good and
that's pretty much the way I sort of
swing the bat I'm sort of it always in
decent enough shape to be able to go and
do one of these types of films that's
the way I approach
whether yeah not much beside I hear
where you're coming push-ups before the
wedding you're about to turn 50 this
year yeah yeah I mean how does that how
does that feel I mean you look fantastic
I feel okay yeah and the joints don't
agree now I'm thinking it as you you
just need to do more maintenance as you
get older you can't you know you can't
drink as many beers as you used to and
you can't eat the crap that you used to
you have to service the car a little bit
you know you don't wait for the red
lights to come on anymore you try and
get in there you know before they come
when it says check engine yeah check in
yeah you go in there uh one of the other
things I love you know in the movie Spy
you showed such a comedic flair in this
movie you've got a bit of a comedic
flirty would you like to do like a
straight comedy you know I just pull a
with someone that I've just couldn't get
enough of and working with Melissa
McCarthy was it just that you know
jumping into their world and see now you
know what a good time they had when
they're going to work it makes you just
want to do more of that but you've got
to be careful and you know comedy is a
very very delicate sort of arena that
I'm not used to so if I start doing bad
comedy it's gonna be you know it's the
end of the career pretty quickly so you
know I'd love to work with great people
and and making comedies is is something
that you really do get to enjoy your
life and you love it on set all day so
it's great this movie is to you you
should we drop down and maybe do some
some push up our object letter leg line
okay the out right now the fate of
the Furious is from our sister company
Universal it hits theaters on Friday
okay sue it one two three four five six
seven hey hey he's doing really well
of course young that's good out lets you
know come sit back down
thank you Jason thank you for that yeah
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