Vin Diesel reveals why he wanted to do 'The Fast and the Furious,' and then why he almost didn't

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We couldn’t imagine TheFastSaga without VinDiesel as Dom, but it almost happened. Watch our full interview with the F9 star for EW’s Binge podcast:

coverage — including next Friday's chat with Ludacris aboutWe're sitting on the floor of this airport. Bags inside, legs stretched out. Thousands of people walking by, walking over us, walking over our legs. Now, he'd already had some films out. He was a little more familiar with what was to come. And he said, "You know Vin, take all this in. Take in the fact that all these people are just walking by us.

And so they said, "We got this movie, that's about illegal street car racing, and we want you to play this character, Dom, who's a tough guy, outlawed with a heart and a code. Okay." And then they describe that scene that you see in the first movie, where the camera go through my eyes down my arm and into the engine. And that's the only thing they described. And I said, "Yes, I'm in.

No one would ever associate that. But it was still popular that there was a divide. We were still getting over the deaths of Tupac and Biggie. And it was still very much present in our lives. When I came on it was me and my New York crew and him in his West Coast crew. And to see that brotherhood form added something special to the movie.

 

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