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<i>Hey, everyone.
This is Justin Lin.</i>

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<i>This is the commentary track for</i> F9.

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<i>And as you can see here,</i>

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<i>I think for people
that are aficionados of logos,</i>

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<i>this is one of the older Universal logos.</i>

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<i>It was a very conscious choice.</i>

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<i>I went back and looked at
all the motion logos...</i>

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<i>And by the way, this is...</i>

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<i>Growing up as a kid,
the Universal one was my favorite.</i>

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<i>And the choice of going with an older logo</i>

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<i>was because I wanted it to sync up with
this quote-unquote the flashback to start.</i>

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<i>I wanted the point of view to start
with the past timeline.</i>

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<i>I felt like, you know,
when we were prepping this,</i>

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<i>we kept talking about these
as the flashbacks,</i>

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<i>and it definitely is.</i>

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<i>But I was really hoping
that for the viewing experience,</i>

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<i>because you're being thrust into this
time and place.</i>

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<i>I wanted this to be
the starting point for the film.</i>

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<i>We shot this in
Irwindale, California.</i>

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<i>It's really interesting
because even on films</i>

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<i>with huge budgets like this one,</i>

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<i>still you never have enough money.</i>

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<i>You know,
we shot most of the film in the UK,</i>

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<i>and so to get back to LA.
and shoot was definitely</i>

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<i>something that we had to keep
fighting for, budgetarily.</i>

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<i>It was something that
I felt was important</i>

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<i>that we get to shoot</i>

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<i>for me growing up, having shot in LA,</i>

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<i>just the sunlight,
and just a feel of it.</i>

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<i>And this is where it all started</i>

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<i>and it was very important to get back
and shoot in Southern California.</i>

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Bell's driving safe.

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Corbin's got a sponsor in the stands,
so he's pushing it.

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Talking about me?

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You got a real problem with car 23.

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- Linder.
- About to whip your ass, Toretto!

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<i>The Jack,</i>

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<i>the young Dom,</i>

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<i>Vinnie Bennett and Finn Cole.</i>

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<i>JD Pardo. They were amazing,</i>

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<i>I think a lot of times
shooting these sequences,</i>

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<i>it's so hard and that was
one of the big challenges of this film.</i>

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<i>Obviously, Vin Diesel is Dominic Toretto.</i>

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<i>And to be able to find someone,</i>

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<i>that can, in many ways, embody Dom Toretto</i>

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<i>but at the same time
bring something that is original,</i>

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<i>that is new to the character,</i>

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<i>I just thought Vinnie did an amazing job.</i>

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<i>It's one of those things
where I got so excited</i>

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<i>when, you know,
one day I woke up, and I...</i>

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<i>I realize there's more
for us to explore, you know,</i>

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<i>the mythology of
Dom and his family.</i>

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<i>But at the same time,</i>

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<i>I remember I felt like
there was something that was lacking.</i>

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<i>And, you know, I felt like
the exploration wasn't enough</i>

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<i>and it took another,</i>

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<i>I think, couple of weeks
just really brainstorming</i>

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<i>that the big idea came,
which is to explore this theme of family,</i>

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<i>but in more of a bloodline way.</i>

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<i>And it was about 12 hour
of just excitement.</i>

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<i>And I was so, kind of, inspired
that this would be the new chapter.</i>

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<i>But then after those 12 hours,
I wake up and I'm...</i>

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<i>Then it was just total fear because...</i>

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<i>It's like, well...</i>

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<i>First of all, can we pull this off?</i>

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<i>And then if we can,</i>

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<i>part of pulling it off
is that we need to find an amazing cast</i>

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<i>to be able to
really do these sequences justice.</i>

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<i>And so, it became this global, kind of,
search for the actors.</i>

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<i>And I have to say,
I felt like our casting team,</i>

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<i>everybody was just amazing.</i>

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<i>I mean, we looked everywhere,
and Vinnie is from New Zealand,</i>

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<i>and it's amazing
to basically go all around the world</i>

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<i>and to be able to find
our young Dom in New Zealand.</i>

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<i>The other thing that really was scary
was, of course, Jakob.</i>

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<i>It was an exciting idea,</i>

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<i>but then, you know, I didn't know
if we would be able to find anybody</i>

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<i>to be able to pull that off.</i>

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<i>You know, the missing Toretto.</i>

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<i>The Toretto that has existed
this whole time,</i>

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<i>but in eight movies,
no one's ever mentioned it.</i>

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<i>It wasn't until I met John Cena,</i>

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<i>and within the first 30 seconds,
I was able to breathe, you know.</i>

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<i>And so, this whole process
actually felt very organic.</i>

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<i>I think sometimes, you know,
you're doing sequels,</i>

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<i>you're bringing back
a lot of the same cast</i>

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<i>and it's great because
you get to grow together,</i>

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<i>you know, you're not alone.</i>

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<i>But then when some big idea comes along
and you're bringing new elements,</i>

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<i>that is also the most challenging thing,</i>

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<i>but also the most exciting aspect
of that journey.</i>

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<i>And for some reason,
I think being away for a couple of movies</i>

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<i>and then coming back,</i>

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<i>it felt really organic.</i>

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<i>It felt like we were building a film
from ground up again on all levels.</i>

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<i>You know, I think the idea
of exploring the mythology</i>

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<i>and introducing new brother,
you know, when it came to me,</i>

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<i>Vin was the first person I called.</i>

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<i>And I drove to his house,
we talked about it,</i>

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<i>and I could tell we both were very excited
for this new chapter,</i>

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<i>and at the same time,
this was going to be the first film of</i>

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<i>you know, our final chapter in the saga.</i>

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<i>The final chapter saga is something</i>

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<i>we've been talking about
for about 10 years.</i>

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<i>So it was an amazing,
kind of, earned moment</i>

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<i>where we were able to sit
and just talk like we've always done,</i>

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<i>but really have a sense of tone
and also our purpose.</i>

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Yo, yo!

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We come in peace. We come in peace!

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It's me!

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<i>I have to give Universal and Vin
so much credit.</i>

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<i>Because when I left after</i> Fast 6,
<i>I really thought that was it.</i>

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<i>And I was going to move on
and do other things.</i>

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<i>But, you know,
everybody was always so open,</i>

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<i>and they always kind of checked in</i>

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<i>to see if there's anything brewing
and talking</i> Fast.

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<i>So even though it was gone,</i>

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<i>I never felt like
I was fully away, you know.</i>

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<i>And even when I was
shooting</i> Star Trek Beyond,

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<i>I remember Vin calling me
and I was in the cutting room,</i>

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<i>and we started talking about Dom
for a couple hours.</i>

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<i>I remember thinking,</i>

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<i>"Hey, Vin, I'm out.
I'm not doing this anymore."</i>

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<i>But I think Vin is always,
kind of, a couple steps ahead of me</i>

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<i>and I think he knew at some point
we were going to reconnect and so...</i>

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<i>Again, it was all
the seeds that were planted.</i>

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<i>It felt very organic,</i>

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<i>and I didn't want to come back
unless it was something new.</i>

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<i>It was something that, for us,
to be able to explore.</i>

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<i>I think this idea of
being able to go back</i>

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<i>and explore the mythology
and the past so these characters</i>

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<i>and this franchise can keep moving forward
was very exciting to me.</i>

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Why just us?

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He caught Cipher.

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But there was a midair attack,
and she was extracted.

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It seems his plane crashed somewhere here,

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over the northwest region of Montequinto

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If Mr. Nobody survived...

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<i>You know, when I came back,
it was really interesting</i>

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<i>when I first met with Nathalie</i>

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<i>because Ramsey is a character
that showed up in</i> Fast 7.

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<i>But is a character that
we've been talking about since</i> Fast 5.

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<i>And so it was really surreal</i>

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<i>to be talking to her about a character</i>

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<i>that we were talking about years ago.</i>

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<i>And then when I left, you know,
the character came to life</i>

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<i>and then I was meeting back up with her
developed already.</i>

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<i>So, it definitely...</i>

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<i>There are moments like that
that was really odd,</i>

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<i>but interesting, you know.</i>

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<i>Cipher and Queenie are two
other characters that preceded me.</i>

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<i>And it was a lot of fun</i>

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<i>to be able to work
with Charlize and Helen</i>

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<i>to keep evolving it
in this new chapter.</i>

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I'll always be in your heart.

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Hey, little guy.

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I have a gift for you.

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Your father gave this to me.

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And now I'm gonna give it to you.

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It's very special.

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Take care of it.

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<i>And here you see Little Brian
and it is amazing, you know, that...</i>

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<i>I think doing these big action movies,</i>

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<i>people talk about the stunts
and everything.</i>

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<i>And to me,
those are exciting to design, to shoot</i>

166
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<i>but usually when we're shooting
those sequences,</i>

167
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<i>it's been, you know,
eight to fourteen months of prep,</i>

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<i>hundreds of meetings with every department
to have it come to life.</i>

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This isn't who we are.

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<i>And I'll tell you, I think the scariest
thing for me making this movie</i>

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<i>was actually the scenes with Little Brian.</i>

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<i>Because showing up
with this three-year old</i>

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<i>and trying to hopefully
create an environment</i>

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<i>where he can
feel present,</i>

175
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<i>feel Dominic Toretto as his father,</i>

176
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<i>Letty as his mother...</i>

177
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<i>You know, that to me
was the most challenging thing.</i>

178
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<i>And I think just even getting him
to go to sleep there,</i>

179
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<i>I remember saying...
I think that was probably take 21.</i>

180
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<i>And of course,
it's not the kid's fault,</i>

181
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<i>but it's just sitting there with the boom,
and we have our dolly going in.</i>

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<i>He was amazing.</i>

183
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<i>It was actually twin brothers.</i>

184
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<i>And they were so great
and Vin was amazing with them.</i>

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<i>You know, I think being a father,
he knew that,</i>

186
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<i>you know, he needed to make sure
he spent some time with them.</i>

187
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<i>So for the first week,
while we're shooting this,</i>

188
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<i>you know, Vin wasn't in his trailer,
he was just hanging out with the boys.</i>

189
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<i>So here we're dealing with the cross</i>

190
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<i>that basically connects Jakob
to Han to Dom.</i>

191
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<i>It's kind of an intersection
of so many of our different threads.</i>

192
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<i>And one day I hope</i>

193
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<i>we're going to have the real estate
to fully explain it.</i>

194
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<i>But it's pretty complicated.</i>

195
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<i>It was exciting
to actually come up with it,</i>

196
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<i>but it's one of those things
where we commit to it,</i>

197
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<i>and I hope one day
we will be able to</i>

198
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<i>fully explore that chapter
in the</i> Fast Saga.

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You know, I would love to see my nephew
just a little bit more often...

200
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<i>And this is a scene here with Jordana.</i>

201
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<i>This is her first scene back.</i>

202
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<i>Both in the film,
but also shooting-wise.</i>

203
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<i>It was pretty emotional.
I came up with Jordana even outside</i> Fast.

204
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<i>So, to be able to
be on this journey with her and...</i>

205
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<i>When I left, she did</i> Fast 7
<i>and that was it.</i>

206
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<i>And so to be able to be back together,
it meant a lot.</i>

207
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<i>And to be able to find a storyline
where she comes back organically,</i>

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<i>that was even more of a bonus.</i>

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What life would have been like
if he was alive.

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We'd be a very different...

211
00:11:59,261 --> 00:12:02,431
<i>Unfortunately, this is a scene
that I ultimately cut</i>

212
00:12:02,515 --> 00:12:05,476
<i>even though I really liked it.
It went back and forth.</i>

213
00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:07,770
<i>Staying in the cut and I took it out.</i>

214
00:12:07,853 --> 00:12:12,358
<i>Ultimately, I felt like for the theatrical
version, we didn't need it.</i>

215
00:12:12,441 --> 00:12:16,862
<i>Selfishly, it was just nice
to be able to work those small scenes</i>

216
00:12:16,946 --> 00:12:18,697
<i>with Vin and Jordana.</i>

217
00:12:26,997 --> 00:12:31,919
<i>And here, we're about to enter
our first huge action sequence,</i>

218
00:12:32,002 --> 00:12:34,797
<i>which is this fictional place,
Montequinto.</i>

219
00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:38,008
<i>It's supposed to take place
in Central America,</i>

220
00:12:38,092 --> 00:12:42,179
<i>but when I went on
our global scouting tour,</i>

221
00:12:42,263 --> 00:12:44,640
<i>we stopped at Phuket in Thailand.</i>

222
00:12:44,723 --> 00:12:49,353
<i>And when I saw the geography
and all those, you know...</i>

223
00:12:49,436 --> 00:12:52,189
<i>I don't know.
Actually, I still... I asked people</i>

224
00:12:52,273 --> 00:12:55,568
<i>what those things are called
and nobody could give me an answer.</i>

225
00:12:55,651 --> 00:12:57,862
<i>You know, the buttes,
that are coming out of the water,</i>

226
00:12:57,945 --> 00:13:00,281
<i>so it was just amazing.</i>

227
00:13:00,364 --> 00:13:02,992
<i>And I think
part of doing these</i> Fast <i>movies sometimes</i>

228
00:13:03,075 --> 00:13:06,620
<i>is to explore the world
and hopefully be able to integrate that</i>

229
00:13:06,704 --> 00:13:09,707
<i>and bring it
to share with the audience.</i>

230
00:13:10,166 --> 00:13:11,959
<i>So I think, having...</i>

231
00:13:12,501 --> 00:13:14,295
<i>You know, going on that scout</i>

232
00:13:14,378 --> 00:13:17,840
<i>and loving the visuals
of Phuket, Thailand,</i>

233
00:13:17,923 --> 00:13:22,803
<i>I felt like it was kind of our perfect
place to shoot our fictional Montequinto.</i>

234
00:13:22,887 --> 00:13:26,223
<i>What was also amazing for me,
was on the scout,</i>

235
00:13:26,307 --> 00:13:30,186
<i>I didn't realize the kind of
rich cinematic history of Thailand.</i>

236
00:13:30,269 --> 00:13:35,107
<i>Until recently
they were producing their own films</i>

237
00:13:35,191 --> 00:13:37,568
<i>at a rate that I think
was like hundreds a year.</i>

238
00:13:37,651 --> 00:13:38,652
<i>It was amazing.</i>

239
00:13:38,986 --> 00:13:43,657
<i>So to be able to kind of hook up
with the crew in Thailand,</i>

240
00:13:43,741 --> 00:13:47,244
<i>and be part of that rich
cinematic history, it really meant a lot.</i>

241
00:13:47,328 --> 00:13:50,080
<i>And I think you could feel it
when we were shooting in Thailand</i>

242
00:13:50,164 --> 00:13:54,418
<i>because they really were an amazing crew.</i>

243
00:13:54,501 --> 00:13:57,671
<i>And that's one of the perks of
shooting these films</i>

244
00:13:57,755 --> 00:14:00,299
<i>is to be able
to go into different cultures</i>

245
00:14:00,382 --> 00:14:02,259
<i>and hopefully not be just tourists,</i>

246
00:14:02,343 --> 00:14:05,763
<i>but to be able to truly kind of work
with them and getting to know</i>

247
00:14:05,846 --> 00:14:09,183
<i>how they work
and having that shared experience.</i>

248
00:14:27,743 --> 00:14:30,871
The source of the SOS signal
is coming from inside this thing.

249
00:14:34,833 --> 00:14:36,126
Somebody wanted in.

250
00:14:36,877 --> 00:14:39,588
Plane must have gone down
before they could cut through.

251
00:14:39,672 --> 00:14:42,091
Or it was sent down on purpose
to stop 'em.

252
00:14:42,216 --> 00:14:43,634
Yeah, well, their mistake
was trying to cut into it.

253
00:14:43,717 --> 00:14:47,429
<i>And here we're about to introduce
our McGuffin for the film,</i>

254
00:14:47,513 --> 00:14:53,102
<i>and this is probably, I would say,
for the</i> Fast <i>franchise, I think that...</i>

255
00:14:53,269 --> 00:14:55,980
<i>In</i> Fast 6 <i>is when
we started kind of introducing</i>

256
00:14:56,063 --> 00:14:58,649
<i>these kind of world-ending devices.</i>

257
00:14:59,149 --> 00:15:03,237
<i>I was torn, I was going back and forth on
if we were going to do this or not.</i>

258
00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,572
<i>And ultimately...</i>

259
00:15:06,323 --> 00:15:11,537
<i>I think that was one of the challenges
coming back to do</i> Fast 9.

260
00:15:11,620 --> 00:15:13,998
<i>I don't think we make
these films in a vacuum.</i>

261
00:15:14,415 --> 00:15:18,627
<i>And I think there are a lot of things
about coming back</i>

262
00:15:19,336 --> 00:15:21,255
<i>that I had to respect.</i>

263
00:15:21,338 --> 00:15:24,133
<i>And part of it is,
since I've been gone,</i>

264
00:15:24,717 --> 00:15:27,219
<i>it's kind of gone
a lot more kind of sci-fi.</i>

265
00:15:28,095 --> 00:15:31,265
<i>And I felt like, ultimately,
if I just kind of ignored that,</i>

266
00:15:31,348 --> 00:15:34,852
<i>it just wouldn't be respectful
to the films that I wasn't part of.</i>

267
00:15:34,935 --> 00:15:38,397
<i>So it was a long process
in the writing phase.</i>

268
00:15:38,939 --> 00:15:43,193
<i>When I first came back, I didn't want to
have a world-ending device.</i>

269
00:15:43,277 --> 00:15:44,778
<i>But when we were working on it,</i>

270
00:15:44,862 --> 00:15:49,658
<i>it felt like it was almost
such a rebuke to the other films.</i>

271
00:15:49,742 --> 00:15:50,826
<i>I didn't want that.</i>

272
00:15:50,909 --> 00:15:56,749
<i>I wanted the spirit of this film
to always embrace the chapters prior</i>

273
00:15:56,832 --> 00:15:59,376
<i>and whether it's to correct
something that's wrong,</i>

274
00:15:59,460 --> 00:16:03,339
<i>or to build on something,
I never wanted to be reactionary,</i>

275
00:16:03,422 --> 00:16:04,673
<i>because I think sometimes,</i>

276
00:16:04,757 --> 00:16:08,344
<i>I think having made movies,
TV shows and stuff,</i>

277
00:16:09,011 --> 00:16:11,972
<i>I see a lot of instances
where filmmakers</i>

278
00:16:12,056 --> 00:16:15,434
<i>become very, kind of, reactive
and they take it personally.</i>

279
00:16:16,268 --> 00:16:19,188
<i>And I think the films and the shows
sometimes suffer for it.</i>

280
00:16:19,271 --> 00:16:23,942
<i>And I felt like it was important
to try to be positive.</i>

281
00:16:24,485 --> 00:16:27,196
<i>And, yes, I think one of the
big reasons to come back</i>

282
00:16:27,279 --> 00:16:30,866
<i>and to correct is, we'll talk about later,
which is the justice for Han.</i>

283
00:16:31,450 --> 00:16:32,785
<i>But at the same time,</i>

284
00:16:32,868 --> 00:16:36,372
<i>I wanted to always stay positive
to everything.</i>

285
00:16:36,455 --> 00:16:38,749
<i>And that led to the whole Aries device.</i>

286
00:16:38,832 --> 00:16:40,626
<i>So anyway,
it was a long way to explain it.</i>

287
00:16:40,709 --> 00:16:45,005
<i>But it was months and months of my life
in our writing process</i>

288
00:16:45,089 --> 00:16:47,508
<i>of deciding if we were
going to do it or not.</i>

289
00:16:47,591 --> 00:16:49,593
<i>Ultimately, I feel like we needed it.</i>

290
00:16:49,676 --> 00:16:53,847
<i>It's a bit of a culmination of something
that we kind of started on</i> 6.

291
00:16:53,972 --> 00:16:55,933
<i>And it kind of had continued.</i>

292
00:16:56,100 --> 00:16:58,936
<i>But I think
this is probably it for our franchise,</i>

293
00:16:59,019 --> 00:17:02,022
<i>and as we're going to the final chapter,</i>

294
00:17:02,106 --> 00:17:05,734
<i>we're going to be exploring our characters
through other elements.</i>

295
00:17:19,331 --> 00:17:20,791
Roman, where the hell are you?

296
00:17:27,589 --> 00:17:30,259
Who's compensating now, Tej?

297
00:17:51,780 --> 00:17:54,700
<i>Here, we're about to go in
to the landmine sequence</i>

298
00:17:54,783 --> 00:17:56,410
<i>and I have to say,
I think the one thing</i>

299
00:17:56,493 --> 00:17:58,078
<i>that really surprised me,</i>

300
00:17:58,162 --> 00:18:01,999
<i>when we first went into the scouting
for Thailand</i>

301
00:18:02,499 --> 00:18:08,630
<i>was how much of the jungle of Thailand
has kind of disappeared.</i>

302
00:18:08,714 --> 00:18:13,093
<i>This is only a small stretch
of private land that we were able to find</i>

303
00:18:13,177 --> 00:18:14,553
<i>that we could shoot in.</i>

304
00:18:14,928 --> 00:18:18,307
<i>Most of the land
has become palm plantations.</i>

305
00:18:18,390 --> 00:18:22,144
<i>I think they're just trying to produce
palm oil for the world.</i>

306
00:18:23,061 --> 00:18:24,229
<i>You know, I think growing up</i>

307
00:18:24,313 --> 00:18:26,064
<i>and even just kind of
reading about Thailand,</i>

308
00:18:26,148 --> 00:18:29,485
<i>I was really excited to kind of
explore the jungle aspect.</i>

309
00:18:29,776 --> 00:18:34,865
<i>And, at least in southern Thailand,
a lot of that has been... is gone.</i>

310
00:18:34,948 --> 00:18:36,074
<i>Like even here...</i>

311
00:18:36,158 --> 00:18:38,452
<i>This is actually...
You could see the small palms</i>

312
00:18:38,535 --> 00:18:42,039
<i>being planted and grown
and they're everywhere.</i>

313
00:19:02,643 --> 00:19:04,770
<i>What was great about the sequence,</i>

314
00:19:04,853 --> 00:19:09,441
<i>I really wanted to kind of start with the
feel of just kind of this tactile action.</i>

315
00:19:09,525 --> 00:19:11,318
<i>You know, something that's practical.</i>

316
00:19:11,693 --> 00:19:13,403
<i>What better than to, like,</i>

317
00:19:13,654 --> 00:19:16,114
<i>start blowing stuff up
and the landmine sequence?</i>

318
00:19:16,698 --> 00:19:18,659
<i>It is a very conscious effort</i>

319
00:19:19,284 --> 00:19:23,121
<i>to kind of rebuild,
I think the tone of this franchise.</i>

320
00:19:23,539 --> 00:19:25,332
<i>And again, I feel like...</i>

321
00:19:26,083 --> 00:19:27,709
<i>Just as a movie fan,</i>

322
00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:31,922
<i>CG now is part of
so much of these tent-poles,</i>

323
00:19:32,381 --> 00:19:35,384
<i>and I'm not saying that
we don't do that ourselves.</i>

324
00:19:35,467 --> 00:19:37,135
<i>I mean, I like to think that</i>

325
00:19:37,219 --> 00:19:40,639
<i>we can create a have our cake
and eat it too scenario.</i>

326
00:19:40,931 --> 00:19:42,975
<i>It was just that,
I think as a filmmaker,</i>

327
00:19:43,684 --> 00:19:47,896
<i>there's something really exhilarating
and visceral about practical effects,</i>

328
00:19:47,980 --> 00:19:51,400
<i>and, to me, that's always important.</i>

329
00:19:51,483 --> 00:19:54,361
<i>And especially for the</i> Fast <i>franchise</i>

330
00:19:54,778 --> 00:19:56,238
<i>and especially on this one,</i>

331
00:19:56,363 --> 00:19:58,448
<i>I wanted to make sure
that no matter what,</i>

332
00:19:58,532 --> 00:20:01,868
<i>even the most
outlandish action beats,</i>

333
00:20:01,952 --> 00:20:04,913
<i>we always make sure that
we shoot it practically first.</i>

334
00:20:13,505 --> 00:20:14,590
Roman, you good?

335
00:20:18,427 --> 00:20:20,554
My ass is <i>en fuego!</i>

336
00:20:22,931 --> 00:20:24,725
<i>Like, even this shot right here,</i>

337
00:20:25,225 --> 00:20:28,854
<i>actually, that truck
going over and blowing up,</i>

338
00:20:28,937 --> 00:20:30,230
<i>we shot practically.</i>

339
00:20:30,314 --> 00:20:32,065
<i>And it became reference for us.</i>

340
00:20:33,859 --> 00:20:36,820
<i>And here with Roman hanging upside down,</i>

341
00:20:36,903 --> 00:20:41,283
<i>we had to build this contraption
with the truck on vertical rails.</i>

342
00:20:41,658 --> 00:20:46,622
<i>And it's a small beat,
but it took us three days, which is a lot</i>

343
00:20:46,705 --> 00:20:48,832
<i>to be able to even accomplish this.</i>

344
00:20:49,875 --> 00:20:51,043
<i>But ultimately,</i>

345
00:20:52,419 --> 00:20:54,254
<i>I think you could feel the difference,</i>

346
00:20:54,338 --> 00:20:57,674
<i>because we shot it
practically, you know...</i>

347
00:20:58,508 --> 00:21:00,677
<i>The rocks and everything, we had to build</i>

348
00:21:00,761 --> 00:21:04,931
<i>so that it could be safer
Tyrese to be hanging from that truck.</i>

349
00:21:20,364 --> 00:21:24,284
<i>This is kind of the beat, too,
of this "invincible" thread</i>

350
00:21:24,368 --> 00:21:26,787
<i>that we were exploring.</i>

351
00:21:26,870 --> 00:21:33,168
<i>I think maybe being away from</i> Fast,
<i>I was really kind of drawn</i>

352
00:21:33,251 --> 00:21:38,048
<i>and excited for this
existential thread for Roman,</i>

353
00:21:38,131 --> 00:21:39,841
<i>and Tej and Ramsey.</i>

354
00:21:40,258 --> 00:21:41,927
<i>It is something that I think</i>

355
00:21:42,761 --> 00:21:46,515
<i>a lot of times
with these big action tent-poles,</i>

356
00:21:46,598 --> 00:21:50,060
<i>you know, that the characters,
they obviously escape death.</i>

357
00:21:50,143 --> 00:21:53,105
<i>And I felt like it was time
for us to at least,</i>

358
00:21:53,188 --> 00:21:56,900
<i>hopefully, acknowledge it
and explore it in a fun way.</i>

359
00:22:00,278 --> 00:22:02,280
Wait, okay, I think
I found us another way out.

360
00:22:02,364 --> 00:22:05,325
Two miles to what looks like
a bridge across the border.

361
00:22:05,409 --> 00:22:07,911
Good. The sooner
we get out of here, the better.

362
00:22:09,621 --> 00:22:12,582
<i>This shot here was a really
complicated shot. We shot...</i>

363
00:22:12,666 --> 00:22:14,668
<i>We actually had I think it was</i>

364
00:22:14,751 --> 00:22:19,047
<i>almost like three continents worth of work
just to get that shot in.</i>

365
00:22:19,131 --> 00:22:20,674
<i>Shooting that practically,</i>

366
00:22:20,757 --> 00:22:24,469
<i>and then being able to
basically matte that</i>

367
00:22:24,553 --> 00:22:27,597
<i>and then have Michelle do it
and we shot that in London.</i>

368
00:22:28,014 --> 00:22:31,560
<i>It's amazing how filmmaking
has become so global.</i>

369
00:22:40,610 --> 00:22:44,948
<i>And this jump too, it was something
that basically was shot in Thailand.</i>

370
00:22:45,031 --> 00:22:47,451
<i>We shot again in London, practically.</i>

371
00:22:47,534 --> 00:22:50,787
<i>And then, putting Michelle on wires.</i>

372
00:22:51,204 --> 00:22:52,414
The device.

373
00:22:55,083 --> 00:22:57,085
<i>So here is the big, kind of,</i>

374
00:22:57,169 --> 00:22:59,755
<i>first time where the brothers
see each other.</i>

375
00:23:03,258 --> 00:23:08,638
<i>Getting that Mustang
to drift in was definitely a challenge.</i>

376
00:23:08,722 --> 00:23:10,015
<i>And those doors...</i>

377
00:23:10,432 --> 00:23:13,810
<i>I realized the doors didn't quite match,</i>

378
00:23:13,894 --> 00:23:17,314
<i>so we actually had to bend it 90 degrees.</i>

379
00:23:17,731 --> 00:23:20,567
<i>You don't notice it,
but a lot of times,</i>

380
00:23:20,650 --> 00:23:22,194
<i>the shots that I wanted to have,</i>

381
00:23:22,277 --> 00:23:25,071
<i>the cars don't quite
have the right angles.</i>

382
00:23:25,155 --> 00:23:28,241
<i>But again, I feel I have the
support of this amazing crew,</i>

383
00:23:28,325 --> 00:23:30,202
<i>and we always figure it out.</i>

384
00:23:30,660 --> 00:23:34,498
<i>And sometimes,
it's just a 50 degree shift in something</i>

385
00:23:34,581 --> 00:23:36,249
<i>that's been kind of built in.</i>

386
00:23:46,301 --> 00:23:50,138
<i>So we're about to head into this,
kind of, crazy sequence</i>

387
00:23:50,222 --> 00:23:53,308
<i>that's evolved from
something that was very practical</i>

388
00:23:54,017 --> 00:23:57,270
<i>to something that's going to be
a bit more outlandish.</i>

389
00:23:57,854 --> 00:23:59,815
<i>And hopefully we've earned this.</i>

390
00:24:01,316 --> 00:24:04,277
<i>This is something that
we actually scouted</i>

391
00:24:05,028 --> 00:24:07,155
<i>on so many of these aerial scouts,</i>

392
00:24:07,239 --> 00:24:10,534
<i>trying to find the right two,
I guess, buttes or islands,</i>

393
00:24:10,909 --> 00:24:12,160
<i>so we can shoot this.</i>

394
00:24:12,661 --> 00:24:14,830
<i>Peter Chiang, our VFX supervisor,</i>

395
00:24:15,997 --> 00:24:19,251
<i>he was on it so much,
and I really was very adamant</i>

396
00:24:19,334 --> 00:24:22,587
<i>on making sure that
we found the right practical ones.</i>

397
00:24:23,255 --> 00:24:26,466
<i>I remember we circled around it so much
that Peter actually had to get off</i>

398
00:24:26,550 --> 00:24:28,760
<i>because he was nauseous
and he was throwing up</i>

399
00:24:28,844 --> 00:24:29,970
<i>on one of these buttes.</i>

400
00:24:45,318 --> 00:24:46,695
<i>And here we have the helicopter,</i>

401
00:24:46,778 --> 00:24:50,448
<i>the brother, Mustang,
against Dodge Charger.</i>

402
00:24:52,701 --> 00:24:56,246
<i>You know, it's something that, I think,
people who love cars,</i>

403
00:24:56,371 --> 00:24:58,999
<i>they notice that it's Mustang vs Charger.</i>

404
00:24:59,082 --> 00:25:03,753
<i>And we had a lot of fun
in the writing process, developing it.</i>

405
00:25:03,837 --> 00:25:05,797
<i>I think in the flashbacks, later on,</i>

406
00:25:05,922 --> 00:25:08,800
<i>you'll see that Jakob's
also driving a Mustang.</i>

407
00:25:09,259 --> 00:25:14,139
<i>And it's something that we actually wrote
way more than we needed to.</i>

408
00:25:14,598 --> 00:25:18,059
<i>And I hope, one day we're going
to be able to explore that,</i>

409
00:25:18,143 --> 00:25:20,896
<i>whether in feature
or maybe in other mediums,</i>

410
00:25:21,313 --> 00:25:23,523
<i>because it is really amazing,</i>

411
00:25:23,607 --> 00:25:28,945
<i>sometimes doing these films,
to have the environment to just explore.</i>

412
00:25:29,029 --> 00:25:31,072
<i>And on this one, for some reason,</i>

413
00:25:31,156 --> 00:25:35,702
<i>our script was really long
compared to the other ones.</i>

414
00:25:36,369 --> 00:25:40,498
<i>At one point, we were approaching
almost 200 pages, which is insane.</i>

415
00:25:40,582 --> 00:25:44,085
<i>But it was just fun to be writing
and just to be free.</i>

416
00:25:44,169 --> 00:25:46,755
<i>And ultimately we were able
to kind of bring it down.</i>

417
00:25:52,594 --> 00:25:53,845
Where's the bridge?

418
00:25:58,600 --> 00:25:59,893
No. No, no.

419
00:25:59,976 --> 00:26:01,019
Dom.

420
00:26:03,772 --> 00:26:08,109
<i>I think a lot of people ask,
you know, "This must be all CG."</i>

421
00:26:08,485 --> 00:26:09,819
<i>It actually is a combination.</i>

422
00:26:09,903 --> 00:26:12,280
<i>We actually...
Every beat that you see here,</i>

423
00:26:12,447 --> 00:26:15,283
<i>was accounted for,
like the launch of the car.</i>

424
00:26:15,992 --> 00:26:19,496
<i>Even the swing, you know,
we had a crane.</i>

425
00:26:19,663 --> 00:26:21,539
<i>It was in the UK, actually,
to swing it.</i>

426
00:26:22,082 --> 00:26:26,211
<i>It kind of acted as reference
for us in making sure</i>

427
00:26:26,294 --> 00:26:29,631
<i>that everything we did,
it was kind of accounted for</i>

428
00:26:29,714 --> 00:26:32,175
<i>so we can have the proper conversations.</i>

429
00:26:36,179 --> 00:26:37,639
Well, that was new.

430
00:26:47,482 --> 00:26:52,070
<i>This is Stasiak,
and there's a Japanese antacid...</i>

431
00:26:52,195 --> 00:26:55,073
<i>It happened when I was on a trip in Japan,</i>

432
00:26:56,783 --> 00:26:59,160
<i>and I love how they always have visuals
to sell all their products.</i>

433
00:27:00,662 --> 00:27:02,330
But this thing is a mess.

434
00:27:03,164 --> 00:27:04,749
The headlines out there?

435
00:27:04,874 --> 00:27:06,584
Secret spy plane crashes in a...

436
00:27:06,668 --> 00:27:09,087
<i>It was such a treat
to be able to bring Shea back,</i>

437
00:27:09,170 --> 00:27:14,426
<i>and we had a lot of fun with
Stasiak's nose, and we went through...</i>

438
00:27:14,509 --> 00:27:17,262
<i>We tracked it from</i> Fast 4,
<i>when he gets slammed</i>

439
00:27:17,345 --> 00:27:20,765
<i>by Brian O'Conner and again in</i> Fast 6.

440
00:27:20,849 --> 00:27:25,186
<i>And so, Shea showed up on the day
and we just kept fudging it.</i>

441
00:27:25,270 --> 00:27:27,397
<i>And it was a really fun nod</i>

442
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,275
<i>to his relationship
and the connection to Brian O'Conner.</i>

443
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,528
<i>And that's something
that we were very conscious of.</i>

444
00:27:33,611 --> 00:27:38,074
<i>You know, the spirit of Brian,
the character is still, obviously alive</i>

445
00:27:38,199 --> 00:27:39,993
<i>and thriving in this universe.</i>

446
00:27:40,076 --> 00:27:44,831
<i>But, you know, I felt like
trying to make sure that,</i>

447
00:27:44,914 --> 00:27:48,001
<i>you know, we always kind of
honor thing that's happened.</i>

448
00:27:48,084 --> 00:27:52,630
<i>And so that we can kind of embrace it
for the narrative, for people that really,</i>

449
00:27:52,714 --> 00:27:58,053
<i>you know, love the franchise that
we never short change any of the thing.</i>

450
00:27:58,136 --> 00:27:59,345
<i>So, it was a lot of fun.</i>

451
00:27:59,429 --> 00:28:02,891
<i>It was like multiple meetings
about his broken nose,</i>

452
00:28:03,433 --> 00:28:05,435
<i>and how much we were going to do it.</i>

453
00:28:05,977 --> 00:28:07,228
Brother?

454
00:28:08,438 --> 00:28:09,981
You got a brother?

455
00:28:10,190 --> 00:28:13,818
Who also happens to be
some kind of super spy

456
00:28:13,902 --> 00:28:15,779
with his own private army,

457
00:28:15,862 --> 00:28:16,905
who drives literally...

458
00:28:16,988 --> 00:28:20,784
<i>This is a really interesting moment
between Dom and Letty, you know,</i>

459
00:28:20,867 --> 00:28:24,370
<i>and it is one of those things
that I felt like, you know,</i>

460
00:28:24,454 --> 00:28:27,665
<i>working with Michelle and Vin on it,</i>

461
00:28:27,832 --> 00:28:31,711
<i>it was such a great process, you know,
because, as you can see,</i>

462
00:28:31,795 --> 00:28:34,422
<i>there's not a lot of real estate
for anything.</i>

463
00:28:34,547 --> 00:28:38,551
<i>So, to be able to get everybody
in those moments to track it,</i>

464
00:28:38,635 --> 00:28:43,389
<i>and to feel it without us
really shining a crazy spotlight on it.</i>

465
00:28:43,473 --> 00:28:46,351
<i>And that's always the biggest
challenge for these films</i>

466
00:28:46,434 --> 00:28:49,062
<i>because, you know,
especially</i> Fast 9,

467
00:28:49,145 --> 00:28:51,689
<i>I feel like there's three movies
jammed into one, right?</i>

468
00:28:51,773 --> 00:28:54,943
<i>You have the brother-thread,
you have the main-thread.</i>

469
00:28:55,026 --> 00:28:58,655
<i>And then he had the Han-thread.
And the biggest challenge</i>

470
00:28:58,738 --> 00:29:01,574
<i>of making this film
really was real estate.</i>

471
00:29:01,658 --> 00:29:04,994
<i>And, you know, I have to say,
one of the reasons</i>

472
00:29:05,078 --> 00:29:08,498
<i>why I ultimately felt like I was,
you know, done with the franchise</i>

473
00:29:08,581 --> 00:29:13,503
<i>was that we've never been able to have</i>

474
00:29:13,586 --> 00:29:15,755
<i>a full draft of the script
when we start shooting,</i>

475
00:29:15,839 --> 00:29:17,841
<i>and that's part of the process</i>

476
00:29:17,924 --> 00:29:20,468
<i>that we've had developed,
and I'm not complaining.</i>

477
00:29:20,552 --> 00:29:21,803
<i>It's just... It's okay.</i>

478
00:29:21,886 --> 00:29:23,847
<i>It's just the way
we always end up doing it.</i>

479
00:29:23,930 --> 00:29:27,684
<i>And so, I felt like I wanted to make sure
that for the first time,</i>

480
00:29:27,767 --> 00:29:32,021
<i>we had a script, fully done,
and we were able to on this one.</i>

481
00:29:32,105 --> 00:29:34,691
<i>And the funny thing is that we ended up,</i>

482
00:29:34,774 --> 00:29:38,361
<i>kind of, overshooting it
and it was much longer.</i>

483
00:29:38,820 --> 00:29:40,738
<i>But I think you can feel that,</i>

484
00:29:40,822 --> 00:29:45,618
<i>you know, this film had a lot more,</i>

485
00:29:45,702 --> 00:29:47,871
<i>but it was always about condensing
and making sure</i>

486
00:29:47,954 --> 00:29:50,039
<i>that we didn't take any beat for granted.</i>

487
00:29:51,332 --> 00:29:52,542
What is that?

488
00:29:52,625 --> 00:29:54,711
Get out of here. Go.

489
00:29:55,962 --> 00:29:57,881
So a man can't pay his last respects?

490
00:29:57,964 --> 00:29:59,257
That's what that is?

491
00:29:59,340 --> 00:30:00,800
No.

492
00:30:00,884 --> 00:30:03,136
No, not you.
You're the one that killed him.

493
00:30:03,219 --> 00:30:04,512
No, racing killed him.

494
00:30:04,971 --> 00:30:08,057
Look, he knew that I was gonna
pit him into the wall. He knew that.

495
00:30:08,141 --> 00:30:09,267
Now, I don't know
if he dropped gear.

496
00:30:09,350 --> 00:30:11,603
<i>Here's Jim Parrack playing Linder.</i>

497
00:30:11,686 --> 00:30:14,063
<i>It was great to work with him again.</i>

498
00:30:14,147 --> 00:30:17,942
<i>His first job as an actor was actually
on</i> Annapolis, <i>and we worked on together.</i>

499
00:30:18,026 --> 00:30:21,321
<i>So it's always great to be able to
meet back up with actors</i>

500
00:30:21,404 --> 00:30:22,906
<i>or crew through the years.</i>

501
00:30:22,989 --> 00:30:26,451
<i>And he's kind of a perfect Linder,
he was great.</i>

502
00:30:29,454 --> 00:30:30,663
Leave.

503
00:30:31,414 --> 00:30:36,127
<i>This obviously, is one of the most pivotal
moments in the</i> Fast <i>lore.</i>

504
00:30:38,171 --> 00:30:41,841
<i>And I know that in the first</i> Fast <i>film,</i>

505
00:30:41,925 --> 00:30:45,386
<i>in the garage with Dom and Brian,</i>

506
00:30:45,470 --> 00:30:48,306
<i>Dom was talking about
how he took that wrench,</i>

507
00:30:48,389 --> 00:30:53,478
<i>and he just kept beating Linder
until his arms went numb.</i>

508
00:30:53,561 --> 00:30:57,857
<i>And it was a struggle, because it was
great in that moment when he said it.</i>

509
00:30:57,941 --> 00:30:59,901
<i>And here, when we were working on it,</i>

510
00:31:00,026 --> 00:31:02,987
<i>we actually did
all these tests and...</i>

511
00:31:03,655 --> 00:31:06,866
<i>With that hit with that wrench,
if you just did it more than,</i>

512
00:31:07,742 --> 00:31:12,455
<i>you know, a couple of times,
the skull is going to crack, you know?</i>

513
00:31:12,538 --> 00:31:18,044
<i>And so, I wanted to make sure that we
honor what Dom was sharing with Brian.</i>

514
00:31:18,127 --> 00:31:21,005
<i>But at the same time, I think
in that moment, it was important</i>

515
00:31:21,089 --> 00:31:23,383
<i>that we were capturing it
through Jakob's point of view.</i>

516
00:31:24,092 --> 00:31:28,137
<i>But, that was also one of the things
that we had so many discussions on.</i>

517
00:31:28,221 --> 00:31:33,226
<i>And ultimately I felt like...
You know, sometimes in life,</i>

518
00:31:33,309 --> 00:31:36,020
<i>we're all a little bit...
Get stuck into the moment,</i>

519
00:31:36,104 --> 00:31:41,442
<i>and we're not the most reliable narrators,
even though there's no intent to deceive.</i>

520
00:31:42,110 --> 00:31:44,195
<i>We're the protagonist in our own stories.</i>

521
00:31:44,279 --> 00:31:47,240
<i>And I think in Dom's mind
that's what happened.</i>

522
00:31:47,323 --> 00:31:50,702
<i>But I think one of the ways
that we were able to, kind of,</i>

523
00:31:50,785 --> 00:31:54,455
<i>hopefully, honor that moment,
but at the same time make it feel</i>

524
00:31:54,539 --> 00:31:59,627
<i>like it's not out of this world
where he's beating Linder, you know,</i>

525
00:31:59,794 --> 00:32:03,006
<i>countless times with the wrench
was to go to Jakob's point of view,</i>

526
00:32:03,089 --> 00:32:05,758
<i>which is what we needed in that moment
for this film.</i>

527
00:32:06,134 --> 00:32:08,219
- She say anything?
- Nope. <i>Nada.</i>

528
00:32:09,095 --> 00:32:11,639
You know, I look at her
and I feel creeped out.

529
00:32:11,764 --> 00:32:13,975
And sort of turned on at the same time.

530
00:32:14,642 --> 00:32:16,019
Is that weird?

531
00:32:19,314 --> 00:32:21,024
Nice operation.

532
00:32:21,482 --> 00:32:23,901
You snatched me off
Mr. Nobody's plane midair

533
00:32:23,985 --> 00:32:26,029
without a scratch, and you took him down.

534
00:32:26,237 --> 00:32:28,406
<i>And here we have our scene
with Cipher.</i>

535
00:32:29,115 --> 00:32:33,703
<i>Again, it was such an honor and treat
to be able to work with Charlize.</i>

536
00:32:33,995 --> 00:32:34,996
<i>And this is a character</i>

537
00:32:35,079 --> 00:32:40,084
<i>that obviously was in</i> 8,
<i>and she was so gracious and open.</i>

538
00:32:40,168 --> 00:32:43,713
<i>I remember sitting down with her
and talking about the character,</i>

539
00:32:44,589 --> 00:32:48,259
<i>and I think she was excited
to keep kind of evolving it.</i>

540
00:32:48,343 --> 00:32:53,723
<i>So I remember asking her,
you know, "Is there anything in</i> 8

541
00:32:53,806 --> 00:32:56,559
<i>"that you built
that I need to be aware of?"</i>

542
00:32:58,353 --> 00:33:01,647
<i>And she was like, "No, "
you know? It's the basic...</i>

543
00:33:01,731 --> 00:33:03,441
<i>"Let's go back and rebuild this."</i>

544
00:33:03,524 --> 00:33:06,778
<i>And I had such a great time
with her just talking.</i>

545
00:33:06,861 --> 00:33:12,450
<i>And she is so specific
about every beat, you know,</i>

546
00:33:12,533 --> 00:33:15,078
<i>and I love that, you know, in this scene,</i>

547
00:33:15,161 --> 00:33:18,331
<i>even though she is this
character that's stuck,</i>

548
00:33:18,414 --> 00:33:23,628
<i>has been captured, stuck in the box,
and I wanted to also really make sure that</i>

549
00:33:24,295 --> 00:33:28,007
<i>it's not one of these diabolical scenes
where she's already gotten a way out.</i>

550
00:33:28,508 --> 00:33:31,302
<i>I wanted the experience for the audience</i>

551
00:33:31,677 --> 00:33:37,642
<i>in real time with Cipher, is to see
how she could figure her way out.</i>

552
00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:41,312
I need you to find out which one.

553
00:33:41,604 --> 00:33:43,064
<i>So, here she does</i>

554
00:33:43,147 --> 00:33:47,110
<i>an amazing job of just, kind of,
scoping out all the players, right?</i>

555
00:33:47,193 --> 00:33:49,195
<i>There's Jakob.
There's Otto and there's Sue.</i>

556
00:33:49,862 --> 00:33:53,950
<i>And even though it's probably not clear,
it's not scripted,</i>

557
00:33:54,033 --> 00:34:00,540
<i>this idea of her constantly testing
and trying to figure out</i>

558
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,167
<i>what is her... How is she
going to get out,</i>

559
00:34:03,334 --> 00:34:04,335
<i>starts here.</i>

560
00:34:04,627 --> 00:34:09,382
<i>And I just had such a great time
working with her on the day,</i>

561
00:34:09,465 --> 00:34:13,344
<i>but also in the cutting room
because I can see her,</i>

562
00:34:13,428 --> 00:34:17,640
<i>and that's something that we planned,
you know, basically calculating, like,</i>

563
00:34:18,307 --> 00:34:21,853
<i>let's test Jakob out. Let's go through,
let's push those buttons.</i>

564
00:34:21,936 --> 00:34:25,273
<i>But the... Little bit of the curve ball</i>

565
00:34:25,356 --> 00:34:28,401
<i>is actually she finds
a weak point in Otto.</i>

566
00:34:29,986 --> 00:34:34,449
<i>And I think if you watch this film
multiple times,</i>

567
00:34:34,532 --> 00:34:35,825
<i>you'll really get a sense.</i>

568
00:34:35,908 --> 00:34:38,828
<i>And if you really watch her,
she's been, you know,</i>

569
00:34:38,911 --> 00:34:40,621
<i>you can see her wheels turning.</i>

570
00:34:41,038 --> 00:34:44,417
<i>And that's...
I think, that's the fun of this character</i>

571
00:34:44,500 --> 00:34:49,255
<i>and I think this is also a new element
for us in this franchise.</i>

572
00:34:54,093 --> 00:34:57,805
Finding the two halves
of Project Aries is the easy part.

573
00:34:58,139 --> 00:35:00,057
Add in your brother Dom to the mix?

574
00:35:00,725 --> 00:35:02,268
You don't have a chance.

575
00:35:03,352 --> 00:35:04,854
Plans are in motion.

576
00:35:08,399 --> 00:35:12,612
<i>There's a line in there,
where she basically is pointing out</i>

577
00:35:13,446 --> 00:35:16,324
<i>about Jakob's jawline, the Nordic strain,</i>

578
00:35:16,407 --> 00:35:19,702
<i>and it was important
that we put it in there.</i>

579
00:35:19,785 --> 00:35:21,370
<i>I know that a lot of people are saying,</i>

580
00:35:21,454 --> 00:35:24,999
<i>well, how could John Cena
be Vin Diesel's brother?</i>

581
00:35:25,416 --> 00:35:27,752
<i>You know?
And that's something that we talked about</i>

582
00:35:27,835 --> 00:35:29,629
<i>because John was by far...</i>

583
00:35:29,712 --> 00:35:33,257
<i>I mean, again,
I felt just so lucky to have him join us.</i>

584
00:35:33,925 --> 00:35:38,054
<i>But at the same time, I think there's a
complicated kind of history for Toretto's.</i>

585
00:35:38,137 --> 00:35:40,515
<i>And that's something that that one line</i>

586
00:35:40,598 --> 00:35:42,266
<i>is giving you a little bit of glimpse</i>

587
00:35:44,018 --> 00:35:47,230
<i>into the, kind of, origin story
of Toretto family.</i>

588
00:35:47,313 --> 00:35:50,566
<i>I'm not going to spoil it here
because I'm hoping,</i>

589
00:35:50,650 --> 00:35:55,988
<i>hoping that in the next few years,
we're going to be able to tell that story.</i>

590
00:35:56,072 --> 00:35:59,659
<i>But it all started with, you know...
I had a whole back story.</i>

591
00:35:59,742 --> 00:36:01,869
<i>It got condensed down to that one line.</i>

592
00:36:02,286 --> 00:36:05,623
<i>But I am so excited for that one line</i>

593
00:36:05,706 --> 00:36:07,875
<i>because it's going to
potentially get unlocked,</i>

594
00:36:07,959 --> 00:36:09,919
<i>and we're going to be able to, hopefully,</i>

595
00:36:10,002 --> 00:36:13,172
<i>tell more stories
to explore that line.</i>

596
00:36:13,256 --> 00:36:14,423
What now, Dom?

597
00:36:16,926 --> 00:36:18,844
Whoever Jakob has become...

598
00:36:21,430 --> 00:36:23,307
...and whatever he's up to...

599
00:36:27,895 --> 00:36:29,313
...it's on me.

600
00:36:29,397 --> 00:36:30,940
<i>This is amazing, here.</i>

601
00:36:31,899 --> 00:36:35,861
<i>This is like a vulnerable Dom
that I have never seen</i>

602
00:36:35,945 --> 00:36:38,948
<i>you know, in any of the</i> Fast <i>films
that I have been a part of,</i>

603
00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:42,618
<i>but at the same time,
it's a check-in with Dom and Letty.</i>

604
00:36:42,702 --> 00:36:46,205
<i>You know, I think their trust
has been a little bit broken</i>

605
00:36:46,330 --> 00:36:52,169
<i>in the sense that she thought he showed
up to the airport to support her.</i>

606
00:36:52,670 --> 00:36:56,382
<i>But then she realized she was there
because of discovery of Jakob.</i>

607
00:36:56,465 --> 00:36:58,968
Thank you.
I know what a rotary dial phone is.

608
00:37:01,512 --> 00:37:02,847
Okay.

609
00:37:03,306 --> 00:37:07,560
<i>Again, this is a bonus scene
between Ramsey and Chris.</i>

610
00:37:07,643 --> 00:37:10,646
<i>It's amazing.
You know, I don't feel that old,</i>

611
00:37:11,022 --> 00:37:14,525
<i>but, you know, I think,
when I first sat down with Nathalie,</i>

612
00:37:14,692 --> 00:37:17,403
<i>she definitely is obviously
very intelligent.</i>

613
00:37:17,862 --> 00:37:20,948
<i>And she knows, you know,
she's a quick study.</i>

614
00:37:21,699 --> 00:37:27,413
<i>But it was very clear to me that
she was of another generation, you know?</i>

615
00:37:27,496 --> 00:37:31,292
<i>And so that was the inspiration
for all of this.</i>

616
00:37:31,834 --> 00:37:33,711
<i>And we had a lot of fun playing with it.</i>

617
00:37:34,545 --> 00:37:35,796
<i>And I am kind of bummed.</i>

618
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,882
<i>There's a couple of scenes
in this sequence</i>

619
00:37:37,965 --> 00:37:41,719
<i>that I went back and forth on
for the final cut,</i>

620
00:37:41,802 --> 00:37:44,513
<i>and it was actually funny</i>

621
00:37:44,597 --> 00:37:50,186
<i>because, you know, I actually...
As we're working on the extended cut</i>

622
00:37:50,811 --> 00:37:55,358
<i>I was compelled to put, you know,
the scene back into the final version.</i>

623
00:37:55,441 --> 00:37:59,904
<i>But, you know, I never had that happen,
and I think that's the testament to,</i>

624
00:37:59,987 --> 00:38:05,368
<i>I think, this cut because
a lot of times we cut scenes</i>

625
00:38:05,451 --> 00:38:09,372
<i>because the performance or something,
it just feels like it's a double beat.</i>

626
00:38:09,830 --> 00:38:11,874
<i>I think on this film,
I didn't have any problem.</i>

627
00:38:11,957 --> 00:38:15,294
<i>We really showed up every day
and there was always a challenge.</i>

628
00:38:15,628 --> 00:38:19,507
<i>You know, sequences like this where it's
a connection between these characters.</i>

629
00:38:19,632 --> 00:38:23,344
<i>And I think, the humor comes
from their relationship,</i>

630
00:38:23,803 --> 00:38:27,056
<i>and this is very different than obviously,
like an action scene.</i>

631
00:38:27,181 --> 00:38:29,392
<i>But there's always a very fresh</i>

632
00:38:29,475 --> 00:38:33,813
<i>and new challenge for us,
and the cast was amazing.</i>

633
00:38:33,938 --> 00:38:36,857
<i>Everyone showed up, you know, just to play</i>

634
00:38:36,941 --> 00:38:40,569
<i>and to really kind of maximize
the exploration of the day</i>

635
00:38:40,653 --> 00:38:43,322
<i>and that, you know, that is very rare.</i>

636
00:38:43,406 --> 00:38:46,992
<i>So, I was grateful to really be able
to, kind of, reconnect with everybody.</i>

637
00:38:47,576 --> 00:38:51,914
<i>And in a way, we've all kind of grown
and to be able to have these scenes</i>

638
00:38:51,997 --> 00:38:55,126
<i>where not only do you see
the evolution of these characters,</i>

639
00:38:55,543 --> 00:39:00,965
<i>but also for me behind the camera
to see the growth of our actors,</i>

640
00:39:01,048 --> 00:39:02,800
<i>and that that was very gratifying.</i>

641
00:39:02,883 --> 00:39:03,884
...dumbass.

642
00:39:07,930 --> 00:39:10,516
Take your dumbass jacket with you, man.

643
00:39:18,816 --> 00:39:20,776
Pretty impressive driving out there.

644
00:39:22,778 --> 00:39:24,196
You miss the old life.

645
00:39:26,907 --> 00:39:27,908
Do you?

646
00:39:30,369 --> 00:39:31,370
Every day.

647
00:39:33,247 --> 00:39:34,457
Guys.

648
00:39:35,249 --> 00:39:40,921
<i>Ultimately, it was an interesting scene
because I like to edit as we go.</i>

649
00:39:41,005 --> 00:39:45,050
<i>And I knew that the scene
with Dom and Letty at the farm</i>

650
00:39:45,217 --> 00:39:47,386
<i>was probably not going to be it.</i>

651
00:39:47,470 --> 00:39:50,473
<i>And I remember going to Jordana
and saying,</i>

652
00:39:50,598 --> 00:39:52,558
<i>"This is going to be the scene."</i>

653
00:39:53,017 --> 00:39:54,685
<i>And I think for her,</i>

654
00:39:55,019 --> 00:39:58,189
<i>she did such a great job
of, kind of, taking that note</i>

655
00:39:59,273 --> 00:40:01,358
<i>and in a way, take charge of the scene.</i>

656
00:40:01,442 --> 00:40:05,321
<i>You know, I think people
are so used to Dom being the patriarch</i>

657
00:40:05,404 --> 00:40:09,325
<i>and being the decision maker.
Here, you have Mia and Letty</i>

658
00:40:09,408 --> 00:40:12,995
<i>saying, "No. We're part of this family,
and we have a say."</i>

659
00:40:13,078 --> 00:40:15,581
<i>And I think it was a very powerful scene.</i>

660
00:40:15,664 --> 00:40:18,459
<i>And also it was done
not in a confrontational way.</i>

661
00:40:18,542 --> 00:40:20,794
<i>You know, it was done
in a very empowered way,</i>

662
00:40:20,878 --> 00:40:27,134
<i>and I had a lot of meetings with Jordana
and Michelle about the tone of that.</i>

663
00:40:27,218 --> 00:40:29,887
<i>And so it was amazing on the day
when they showed up,</i>

664
00:40:30,346 --> 00:40:33,182
<i>because the last thing I wanted
was to make it feel</i>

665
00:40:33,265 --> 00:40:35,935
<i>like it was them confronting Dom in a way</i>

666
00:40:36,018 --> 00:40:40,189
<i>that was not positive
for the relationship.</i>

667
00:40:48,072 --> 00:40:49,240
Guys!

668
00:40:50,449 --> 00:40:54,286
Guys. Get over here.
You gotta come see this.

669
00:40:54,995 --> 00:40:56,664
Don't ever say Roman...

670
00:40:56,747 --> 00:40:59,833
<i>This is actually the scene
that I went back and forth on.</i>

671
00:41:00,334 --> 00:41:04,129
<i>It was such a fun scene to shoot
and it answers...</i>

672
00:41:04,338 --> 00:41:07,716
<i>In a way, answers a lot of questions
on like, "How can they afford</i>

673
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,885
<i>"all their transportation,
all their cars?"</i>

674
00:41:10,261 --> 00:41:11,637
<i>And it was fun to be able</i>

675
00:41:11,762 --> 00:41:15,182
<i>to kind of, explore Mr. Nobody's hideout,
the unsanctioned hideout.</i>

676
00:41:15,516 --> 00:41:20,312
<i>But it just felt like, ultimately,
last minute, I think, on the eleventh hour</i>

677
00:41:20,396 --> 00:41:23,274
<i>it didn't make the cut
because it was taking away</i>

678
00:41:23,357 --> 00:41:26,235
<i>from the narrative thrust for the films.</i>

679
00:41:26,318 --> 00:41:28,487
<i>But I'm glad the extended cut exists</i>

680
00:41:28,571 --> 00:41:30,990
<i>because it works really well,</i>

681
00:41:31,073 --> 00:41:34,451
<i>and you can see the chemistry
between our characters.</i>

682
00:41:34,785 --> 00:41:38,956
<i>I mean, I'm just so happy
that it actually exists in the world.</i>

683
00:41:42,626 --> 00:41:44,878
...say hello to Project Aries.

684
00:41:45,296 --> 00:41:46,297
What is it?

685
00:41:46,380 --> 00:41:48,090
It's what we got from Mr. Nobody's plane.

686
00:41:48,173 --> 00:41:49,425
Or at least part of it.

687
00:41:50,009 --> 00:41:53,846
Aries was designed to override
and assimilate anything that runs on code.

688
00:41:54,054 --> 00:41:55,514
Any computer anywhere.

689
00:41:55,639 --> 00:41:59,226
If it operates on zeros and ones,
it's vulnerable. Aries can own it.

690
00:41:59,310 --> 00:42:00,728
It can weaponize anything.

691
00:42:00,811 --> 00:42:04,189
Someone could burn your house down
with your refrigerator if they wanted to.

692
00:42:04,273 --> 00:42:06,358
So, now my refrigerator's gonna kill me?

693
00:42:06,442 --> 00:42:07,568
It could be made to.

694
00:42:07,651 --> 00:42:09,945
How about my George Foreman Grill
or foot massager?

695
00:42:10,904 --> 00:42:11,905
<i>It is interesting.</i>

696
00:42:11,989 --> 00:42:15,367
<i>This is, you know... These are always
the toughest scenes to shoot</i>

697
00:42:15,451 --> 00:42:19,330
<i>because they're just exposition scenes
about the McGuffin,</i>

698
00:42:19,413 --> 00:42:22,833
<i>and the McGuffin is the device
that is usually, kind of,</i>

699
00:42:22,916 --> 00:42:25,919
<i>artificially driving our characters.</i>

700
00:42:26,337 --> 00:42:32,092
<i>And what I think became really interesting
in the writing of it,</i>

701
00:42:32,176 --> 00:42:33,969
<i>we had a bit of a Trojan horse.</i>

702
00:42:35,054 --> 00:42:36,555
<i>Here you're seeing Ramsey,</i>

703
00:42:36,639 --> 00:42:40,684
<i>basically setting up our third act
with our McGuffin.</i>

704
00:42:41,810 --> 00:42:45,230
<i>And just when you think the scene
is going to be just one of those scenes</i>

705
00:42:45,314 --> 00:42:49,652
<i>where all this is about information,
there's a bit of a sucker punch</i>

706
00:42:49,735 --> 00:42:54,031
<i>which is discovery of Han
in Mr. Nobody's files.</i>

707
00:42:54,948 --> 00:42:58,786
<i>It was one of those nice finds
in the writing process,</i>

708
00:42:58,869 --> 00:43:01,538
<i>and it ultimately, I think,</i>

709
00:43:01,622 --> 00:43:04,625
<i>made it a lot more interesting
also for the actors.</i>

710
00:43:04,750 --> 00:43:06,710
<i>You know, I mean,
these scenes when we shoot,</i>

711
00:43:06,794 --> 00:43:07,795
<i>it's not in real time, obviously.</i>

712
00:43:08,962 --> 00:43:13,008
<i>We have, you know, coverage,
and it takes us like a day-and-a-half,</i>

713
00:43:13,092 --> 00:43:15,094
<i>I think two days just to shoot the scene.</i>

714
00:43:15,594 --> 00:43:19,681
<i>You know, I can tell
that on the day when we're shooting,</i>

715
00:43:19,765 --> 00:43:23,685
<i>when the Han image came up,
everybody knew that the scene</i>

716
00:43:23,769 --> 00:43:26,105
<i>was much more
than just an exposition scene.</i>

717
00:43:29,608 --> 00:43:33,070
<i>You could see it right here
with the close-up dolly in on Vin.</i>

718
00:43:34,363 --> 00:43:36,115
That's exactly what I said.

719
00:43:36,198 --> 00:43:39,868
So you're saying Han's death
is connected to all of this?

720
00:43:39,993 --> 00:43:42,037
He has to have something to do with it.

721
00:43:42,246 --> 00:43:45,749
<i>Again, I think these scenes
that usually are, kind of,</i>

722
00:43:45,833 --> 00:43:48,252
<i>there for functional plot reasons.</i>

723
00:43:48,669 --> 00:43:52,714
<i>It became these kind of intersection,
emotionally, for all our characters.</i>

724
00:43:53,465 --> 00:43:55,426
I got this the day Han died.

725
00:43:56,218 --> 00:43:57,344
Mexico.

726
00:43:57,636 --> 00:43:59,179
<i>And here's the postcard again.</i>

727
00:43:59,263 --> 00:44:02,850
<i>And I'll give you
a little bit more intel on that.</i>

728
00:44:02,933 --> 00:44:06,145
<i>You know, this goes all the way back
when I first met Vin.</i>

729
00:44:06,687 --> 00:44:10,441
<i>You know, this is for</i> Tokyo Drift
<i>for his final scene and I didn't know him.</i>

730
00:44:10,524 --> 00:44:13,944
<i>I had heard that there's no way
he was coming back to the franchise,</i>

731
00:44:14,027 --> 00:44:16,321
<i>and I was lucky enough
to get a meeting with him.</i>

732
00:44:16,405 --> 00:44:19,616
<i>And were at his house by his pool,
and we were talking.</i>

733
00:44:19,741 --> 00:44:22,035
<i>And I think we...
At one point we just connected</i>

734
00:44:22,119 --> 00:44:25,497
<i>on the mythology
and the family of Dom.</i>

735
00:44:25,581 --> 00:44:32,045
<i>And I was talking to him
about how, in my mind, Dom had met Han</i>

736
00:44:32,129 --> 00:44:38,343
<i>in either in Mexico or Central America,
and I had kind of mapped out,</i>

737
00:44:38,427 --> 00:44:40,721
<i>you know, the connection between them</i>

738
00:44:40,804 --> 00:44:45,267
<i>that Han in a way was on the run
and Dom was on the run.</i>

739
00:44:45,350 --> 00:44:49,480
<i>You know, I had mentioned this town
in Mexico, Guanajuato,</i>

740
00:44:49,563 --> 00:44:56,445
<i>and that conversation in 2005
led all the way to the postcard.</i>

741
00:44:56,528 --> 00:45:01,241
<i>And if you notice on the postcard
the cross on that church is the same cross</i>

742
00:45:01,325 --> 00:45:03,619
<i>that Dom and Jakob, they're wearing.</i>

743
00:45:03,702 --> 00:45:06,580
<i>So it's the Toretto Cross,
so there's a lot of meaning to that.</i>

744
00:45:06,663 --> 00:45:10,542
<i>And there's a whole back story to that
that we've been talking about for years,</i>

745
00:45:10,626 --> 00:45:14,296
<i>and this is the first time
that's being shared.</i>

746
00:45:14,379 --> 00:45:17,382
<i>It's done as a connective tissue beat,</i>

747
00:45:17,508 --> 00:45:21,678
<i>but I can tell you there's a potential
down the road for us</i>

748
00:45:21,762 --> 00:45:25,390
<i>to fully explain and explore
that thread of the mythology.</i>

749
00:45:43,909 --> 00:45:50,874
<i>Here, we're in the "Young Dom" sequence,
and, to me, it was so much fun,</i>

750
00:45:50,999 --> 00:45:54,878
<i>kind of, finding the right music
of the era, you know?</i>

751
00:45:56,088 --> 00:46:01,718
<i>And, you know, a lot of times
when I run into fans and they talk,</i>

752
00:46:01,802 --> 00:46:02,970
<i>it's amazing, you know?</i>

753
00:46:03,053 --> 00:46:06,390
<i>You could see when certain fans'
engagement was on</i> Fast 1.

754
00:46:06,473 --> 00:46:10,143
<i>There's actually a section of the fan base
that started, kind of,</i>

755
00:46:10,227 --> 00:46:12,229
<i>loving</i> Fast <i>on</i> Tokyo Drift.

756
00:46:12,938 --> 00:46:16,525
<i>And obviously now, you know,
that's been 15 years,</i>

757
00:46:16,608 --> 00:46:20,612
<i>and people would use words
like, "That's a classic, " you know?</i>

758
00:46:20,696 --> 00:46:24,032
<i>And I thought, "Wow, God,
you know, it has been a while."</i>

759
00:46:24,116 --> 00:46:27,411
<i>But in many ways, you know, of the time...</i>

760
00:46:27,494 --> 00:46:32,165
<i>The music choices is a challenge
because it's not like</i>

761
00:46:32,249 --> 00:46:38,171
<i>we go and pick the "best of"
from the music sound library.</i>

762
00:46:38,255 --> 00:46:41,008
<i>We're actually creating
music of the moment.</i>

763
00:46:41,091 --> 00:46:46,346
<i>And so to be able to go back
and work on these flashback sequences,</i>

764
00:46:46,430 --> 00:46:49,558
<i>that was a luxury of
being able to really listen</i>

765
00:46:49,641 --> 00:46:52,102
<i>to all the music of the era</i>

766
00:46:52,185 --> 00:46:55,188
<i>and find the true piece of music
that really, for me,</i>

767
00:46:55,272 --> 00:47:00,235
<i>defined not only these moments
for our characters,</i>

768
00:47:00,319 --> 00:47:04,281
<i>but to really able to capture
and kind of honor that era.</i>

769
00:47:05,782 --> 00:47:06,950
Come on, Dom.

770
00:47:08,243 --> 00:47:10,787
You don't want to race me
in Buddy's old Charger.

771
00:47:11,413 --> 00:47:12,623
No, it won't even be close.

772
00:47:12,706 --> 00:47:15,626
My Mustang?
With all the mods that I put in it?

773
00:47:15,709 --> 00:47:17,544
Car don't make the driver.

774
00:47:26,303 --> 00:47:28,221
<i>And this again,</i>

775
00:47:28,305 --> 00:47:35,062
<i>there were a lot more pages written
about this young Dom and Jakob chapter,</i>

776
00:47:35,145 --> 00:47:39,983
<i>that, you know, my hope is to one day
to be able to share it with everybody.</i>

777
00:47:40,067 --> 00:47:43,487
<i>Again, it was so gratifying
to be able to write that.</i>

778
00:47:43,570 --> 00:47:47,282
<i>To me, it's always better
to have more than less,</i>

779
00:47:47,366 --> 00:47:50,994
<i>because having those extra pages
and scenes,</i>

780
00:47:51,078 --> 00:47:54,956
<i>it really kind of helped inform me
and also the actors</i>

781
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:58,377
<i>so that they're not just showing up
and doing what's on page.</i>

782
00:47:58,502 --> 00:48:00,921
<i>You know, they're able to either read,</i>

783
00:48:01,088 --> 00:48:06,093
<i>or talk to me about their world, that era.</i>

784
00:48:06,176 --> 00:48:10,889
<i>And so I really do think
that the challenge to Finn and to Vinnie</i>

785
00:48:11,014 --> 00:48:14,685
<i>is to be able to understand and thrive,
and live in that world</i>

786
00:48:14,768 --> 00:48:17,854
<i>so that, you know, they're just not
showing up doing these scenes</i>

787
00:48:17,979 --> 00:48:22,401
<i>to kind of update, and tell the audience
what's happening in the relationship.</i>

788
00:48:22,484 --> 00:48:26,196
<i>And they did an amazing job,
and this is one of our last scenes</i>

789
00:48:26,279 --> 00:48:29,491
<i>that I shot with them, and I remember
sitting there in that corner</i>

790
00:48:29,574 --> 00:48:31,618
<i>as we're waiting for the lighting,</i>

791
00:48:31,702 --> 00:48:38,291
<i>and we continue to talk about their
relationship outside of what was scripted,</i>

792
00:48:38,417 --> 00:48:42,587
<i>and I could see them just really
absorbing that and taking that in.</i>

793
00:48:42,671 --> 00:48:45,757
<i>You know, I remember Finn
comes from a family. He has siblings.</i>

794
00:48:45,841 --> 00:48:49,219
<i>And he was really channeling
a lot of that in this race.</i>

795
00:48:49,302 --> 00:48:53,348
<i>And, you know, when we do these films,</i>

796
00:48:53,432 --> 00:48:57,769
<i>these driving scenes are the most
artificial-feeling, constructed</i>

797
00:48:57,853 --> 00:48:59,980
<i>because they're in a green screen,</i>

798
00:49:00,105 --> 00:49:01,940
<i>and you know, we're putting on casters,</i>

799
00:49:02,065 --> 00:49:04,818
<i>and we're pushing them around,
and it's very awkward.</i>

800
00:49:05,402 --> 00:49:08,905
<i>And so for them to really,
kind of, get in that head space</i>

801
00:49:08,989 --> 00:49:10,949
<i>where it's not about the race, you know,</i>

802
00:49:11,032 --> 00:49:14,202
<i>this race is about the relationship.</i>

803
00:49:14,327 --> 00:49:17,247
<i>About this little brother,
you know, at the core of it</i>

804
00:49:17,372 --> 00:49:21,543
<i>is that he's never going to be able
to catch his older brother.</i>

805
00:49:21,626 --> 00:49:25,672
<i>You know, that's the basis
and the essence of this race.</i>

806
00:49:25,756 --> 00:49:28,800
<i>And on top of that, we built,
kind of this layered...</i>

807
00:49:28,884 --> 00:49:30,510
<i>This family secret.</i>

808
00:49:30,594 --> 00:49:36,892
<i>And ultimately, it's this poor kid
being crushed by the pressure of...</i>

809
00:49:36,975 --> 00:49:40,520
<i>You know, the secret that he's promised
his dad that he was going to keep.</i>

810
00:49:41,021 --> 00:49:43,774
<i>But on top of that is having this brother</i>

811
00:49:43,857 --> 00:49:47,277
<i>that is the spotlight of the family,
and I just thought...</i>

812
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:48,904
<i>Finn was able to, like,</i>

813
00:49:48,987 --> 00:49:52,240
<i>really hone into that and capture that
and on the day,</i>

814
00:49:52,574 --> 00:49:55,494
<i>to really deliver that
in such an amazing way</i>

815
00:49:55,577 --> 00:49:58,997
<i>in the most uncomfortable
and awkward of, you know, set ups.</i>

816
00:50:14,471 --> 00:50:15,514
Too soon.

817
00:50:23,897 --> 00:50:25,190
No!

818
00:50:26,900 --> 00:50:28,527
<i>It was also great to be able to shoot.</i>

819
00:50:28,610 --> 00:50:31,404
<i>This is on the Fourth Street Bridge.</i>

820
00:50:31,530 --> 00:50:34,658
<i>I was bummed because having shot in LA,</i>

821
00:50:34,825 --> 00:50:38,036
<i>the Sixth Street Bridge was,
you know, is my favorite.</i>

822
00:50:38,161 --> 00:50:40,747
<i>You know, we shot</i> Tokyo Drift
<i>underneath that bridge.</i>

823
00:50:41,122 --> 00:50:44,125
<i>It actually got taken down. And, so...</i>

824
00:50:45,085 --> 00:50:46,503
<i>You know, it's sad to see</i>

825
00:50:46,586 --> 00:50:49,631
<i>all these kind of iconic LA structures,</i>

826
00:50:49,798 --> 00:50:52,759
<i>you know, I think just with time,
they're going to get replaced.</i>

827
00:50:52,843 --> 00:50:58,056
<i>So it was great to be able to at least
capture the Fourth Street Bridge on film.</i>

828
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,276
<i>Here's Dom going back,</i>

829
00:51:09,609 --> 00:51:12,946
<i>and it's funny
because I think the fans will joke</i>

830
00:51:13,154 --> 00:51:16,408
<i>about crossover franchises, you know?</i>

831
00:51:16,491 --> 00:51:19,953
<i>And they're like "Can</i> Fast <i>cross
with</i> Back to the Future?"

832
00:51:20,036 --> 00:51:21,037
<i>I don't know why.</i>

833
00:51:21,913 --> 00:51:25,250
<i>It's always fun when they have
all these suggestions for us.</i>

834
00:51:25,584 --> 00:51:30,213
<i>In many ways, I feel like, yeah,
we've kind of done the time travel thing.</i>

835
00:51:30,297 --> 00:51:32,424
<i>You know, like it's been
part of our franchise.</i>

836
00:51:32,507 --> 00:51:35,510
<i>It started in</i> Fast 4, <i>and it continues.</i>

837
00:51:35,594 --> 00:51:38,972
<i>And here we, structurally,
are actually time traveling.</i>

838
00:51:39,055 --> 00:51:41,224
<i>We have two different timelines.</i>

839
00:51:43,310 --> 00:51:44,728
Can't help you, man.

840
00:51:46,021 --> 00:51:50,233
<i>This is one of those days,
you know, as a filmmaker, where...</i>

841
00:51:50,317 --> 00:51:53,820
<i>I love Michael Rooker.
I was such a big fan.</i>

842
00:51:53,904 --> 00:51:55,238
<i>We casted him,</i>

843
00:51:56,031 --> 00:51:58,408
<i>and then I remember showing up on set,</i>

844
00:51:58,867 --> 00:52:01,786
<i>and it was just like...
I felt like a 12-year-old.</i>

845
00:52:02,746 --> 00:52:06,499
<i>And the first time I saw him was
in this film,</i> Mississippi Burning,

846
00:52:07,083 --> 00:52:12,380
<i>and he played this KKK member,
and it scared the shit out of me</i>

847
00:52:12,464 --> 00:52:14,633
<i>as a kid, you know.</i>

848
00:52:14,716 --> 00:52:18,678
<i>And I knew that it was Michael Rooker,
and he's a great actor,</i>

849
00:52:19,387 --> 00:52:20,722
<i>and when I showed up on set,</i>

850
00:52:21,389 --> 00:52:22,974
<i>I was so scared.</i>

851
00:52:23,350 --> 00:52:25,894
<i>It was like this crazy, just...</i>

852
00:52:25,977 --> 00:52:29,648
<i>Like something in me was back</i>

853
00:52:30,106 --> 00:52:32,776
<i>and I was in Mississippi,
and he was that character.</i>

854
00:52:33,610 --> 00:52:35,528
<i>But luckily, it only lasted like a minute</i>

855
00:52:35,612 --> 00:52:38,990
<i>because he's also just
the most gracious, nicest person.</i>

856
00:52:39,074 --> 00:52:40,700
<i>He came in and just gave me this big hug,</i>

857
00:52:40,784 --> 00:52:42,494
<i>and I was like, "Okay, great.
This is great."</i>

858
00:52:42,577 --> 00:52:45,997
<i>And we had a great day,
kind of just shooting the scene.</i>

859
00:52:46,498 --> 00:52:48,708
<i>And I think a lot of times with Vin,</i>

860
00:52:49,209 --> 00:52:53,755
<i>we have this great process of, you know,
making sure that scenes like this,</i>

861
00:52:54,255 --> 00:52:55,548
<i>we have ample time.</i>

862
00:52:55,632 --> 00:52:58,134
<i>And so, we had a day set aside
for the scene,</i>

863
00:52:58,218 --> 00:53:01,554
<i>and we just started, you know,
with what was scripted,</i>

864
00:53:01,638 --> 00:53:04,015
<i>and then we just started
exploring moments.</i>

865
00:53:04,140 --> 00:53:08,228
<i>And this was tough, I have to say,
because Dom is there</i>

866
00:53:08,311 --> 00:53:12,107
<i>really for plot purposes to try to get
his next piece of information.</i>

867
00:53:12,232 --> 00:53:18,488
<i>But, you know, I think there's
a lot of kind of hurt and guilt,</i>

868
00:53:18,613 --> 00:53:21,700
<i>and also frustration, I think,
between these characters.</i>

869
00:53:22,575 --> 00:53:25,286
<i>And Vin was bringing a lot more
of this reverential sense of his past</i>

870
00:53:26,705 --> 00:53:28,623
<i>that we kept calibrating.</i>

871
00:53:28,707 --> 00:53:31,459
<i>And ultimately, I think
we were able to kind of find it.</i>

872
00:53:31,543 --> 00:53:34,379
<i>But it was definitely one
of those discovery scenes</i>

873
00:53:34,462 --> 00:53:36,965
<i>where we just had
two amazing actors on set</i>

874
00:53:37,632 --> 00:53:40,510
<i>and we just went at it.
And it was exhausting.</i>

875
00:53:40,593 --> 00:53:43,096
<i>I would say that scene, the Buddy scene,</i>

876
00:53:43,179 --> 00:53:46,599
<i>to me, is probably
the most exhausting scene,</i>

877
00:53:46,725 --> 00:53:48,977
<i>for me, physically, just going through</i>

878
00:53:49,060 --> 00:53:52,313
<i>the whole exploration
of emotion between them.</i>

879
00:54:08,580 --> 00:54:10,039
Han's old shop.

880
00:54:10,123 --> 00:54:13,001
<i>And here's another scene
that I ultimately had to take out.</i>

881
00:54:13,084 --> 00:54:14,836
<i>I was bummed. I mean, this...</i>

882
00:54:15,336 --> 00:54:20,008
<i>This car is the car
that Sean wrecks in</i> Tokyo Drift.

883
00:54:20,091 --> 00:54:22,761
<i>They ultimately take
the engine of that car</i>

884
00:54:22,886 --> 00:54:25,221
<i>and put in the Mustang for the third act.</i>

885
00:54:25,305 --> 00:54:26,931
<i>And I remember, when I wrote it,</i>

886
00:54:27,015 --> 00:54:29,225
<i>Clayton, our producer, he was like,</i>

887
00:54:29,309 --> 00:54:30,935
<i>"Wait a minute, you want that car?"</i>

888
00:54:31,019 --> 00:54:33,396
<i>And we're sitting there in London
on the set and I said,</i>

889
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:35,398
<i>"Yeah, we got to get
the exact same car."</i>

890
00:54:35,482 --> 00:54:37,192
<i>And so they had to basically find it.</i>

891
00:54:37,275 --> 00:54:39,152
<i>I think they ultimately had to ship it.</i>

892
00:54:39,944 --> 00:54:40,987
<i>It was a big deal.</i>

893
00:54:41,154 --> 00:54:43,698
<i>It was a big deal to get that car there.</i>

894
00:54:43,782 --> 00:54:48,369
<i>We had to paint it, and it was
a lot of time revisiting Han's garage.</i>

895
00:54:48,453 --> 00:54:51,206
<i>I think, sometimes I have to remind myself</i>

896
00:54:51,289 --> 00:54:53,750
<i>just because it was
really hard, logistically,</i>

897
00:54:53,833 --> 00:54:58,087
<i>to get the scene, doesn't mean
they should be in the movie.</i>

898
00:54:58,171 --> 00:54:59,589
<i>And I still love the scene.</i>

899
00:54:59,672 --> 00:55:01,883
<i>I love the connection to Gisele.</i>

900
00:55:02,467 --> 00:55:04,761
<i>But ultimately, it was
just one of those things</i>

901
00:55:04,844 --> 00:55:09,933
<i>where scenes to clarify sometimes
ends up complicating, you know?</i>

902
00:55:10,016 --> 00:55:13,645
<i>And, so I ultimately took it out
of the final cut.</i>

903
00:55:14,145 --> 00:55:15,688
I'll check in with Tej and Roman.

904
00:55:28,034 --> 00:55:31,037
<i>This scene here in Cologne,
it was such a treat, you know?</i>

905
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:34,457
<i>Because it was very much
a reunion for me and for all of us</i>

906
00:55:34,541 --> 00:55:37,252
<i>with Lucas, Jason, Bow.</i>

907
00:55:37,794 --> 00:55:39,754
<i>And Sung showed up that day, too.</i>

908
00:55:39,838 --> 00:55:43,550
<i>And it was just, you know...
This is where all started for me.</i>

909
00:55:44,133 --> 00:55:46,845
<i>And it was interesting.
I think I was walking to set</i>

910
00:55:46,928 --> 00:55:51,015
<i>and I saw them connecting.</i>

911
00:55:51,432 --> 00:55:54,519
<i>Like really connecting as people.
And it was amazing.</i>

912
00:55:54,727 --> 00:55:57,647
<i>It was this profound moment
because, in '05,</i>

913
00:55:57,730 --> 00:56:01,025
<i>we were just a bunch of kids, you know.
For me, it was kind of like...</i>

914
00:56:01,734 --> 00:56:04,571
<i>It was like... I had just finished
a credit-card movie,</i>

915
00:56:04,654 --> 00:56:07,740
<i>and, you know, we're trying to make
a</i> Fast & Furious <i>movie,</i>

916
00:56:07,824 --> 00:56:09,784
<i>and they were just kids.</i>

917
00:56:10,076 --> 00:56:14,122
<i>And now, they were all talking
about their family and their kids,</i>

918
00:56:14,205 --> 00:56:17,792
<i>and just kind of bringing back
these moments from 2005.</i>

919
00:56:19,127 --> 00:56:20,503
Did I hear that right?

920
00:56:21,421 --> 00:56:23,298
You a runner and you afraid of flying?

921
00:56:24,924 --> 00:56:26,217
"Twinkie"?

922
00:56:26,301 --> 00:56:28,469
<i>Here's this moment between</i>

923
00:56:29,721 --> 00:56:32,473
<i>Roman, Tej, and the boys I love.</i>

924
00:56:32,557 --> 00:56:35,059
<i>I have to say, as a kid, I always love it</i>

925
00:56:35,143 --> 00:56:39,480
<i>when characters
from the same, like, universe</i>

926
00:56:39,981 --> 00:56:43,484
<i>that somehow maybe are in different shows,
when they meet back up.</i>

927
00:56:43,735 --> 00:56:45,987
<i>And it really...</i>

928
00:56:46,070 --> 00:56:47,989
<i>It's not one of those things,
even in writing,</i>

929
00:56:48,072 --> 00:56:49,574
<i>that I was that conscious of.</i>

930
00:56:49,657 --> 00:56:51,451
<i>But on the day,</i>

931
00:56:51,534 --> 00:56:54,203
<i>seeing these characters meeting
for the first time was great.</i>

932
00:56:58,791 --> 00:57:01,544
<i>And then here's the reveal of the Fiero.</i>

933
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:04,923
<i>The Fiero is this kind of...</i>

934
00:57:06,007 --> 00:57:09,344
<i>I guess it was a sports car.
It was big when I was in junior high.</i>

935
00:57:10,470 --> 00:57:14,265
<i>And I had this history teacher,
Miss Grant.</i>

936
00:57:15,266 --> 00:57:19,020
<i>She would pull up every morning
in her red Fiero.</i>

937
00:57:19,103 --> 00:57:23,399
<i>And, you know, I have to admit,
I had a crush on Miss Grant.</i>

938
00:57:23,483 --> 00:57:24,734
<i>I think a lot of boys did.</i>

939
00:57:24,817 --> 00:57:27,570
<i>And that Fiero made her look so cool.</i>

940
00:57:27,904 --> 00:57:31,491
<i>And so, when we were thinking
about finding a vehicle for this,</i>

941
00:57:32,075 --> 00:57:34,327
<i>I have to say,
I give Miss Grant a lot of credit.</i>

942
00:57:34,452 --> 00:57:38,247
<i>It wasn't actually her that
inspired this moment.</i>

943
00:57:38,331 --> 00:57:42,043
<i>It was just... I remember talking
to my friends about Miss Grant.</i>

944
00:57:42,210 --> 00:57:43,920
<i>This is probably like
a couple of years before,</i>

945
00:57:44,003 --> 00:57:48,007
<i>and the red Fiero was
the thing that we all talked about.</i>

946
00:57:48,466 --> 00:57:52,178
<i>And then when I was talking
to the NASA rocket scientists</i>

947
00:57:52,261 --> 00:57:56,683
<i>about how can we get to,
you know, not necessarily space</i>

948
00:57:56,766 --> 00:57:58,226
<i>but the outer atmosphere,</i>

949
00:57:58,518 --> 00:58:01,479
<i>they talked about,
obviously weight and fuel.</i>

950
00:58:01,771 --> 00:58:04,607
<i>And the more we talked about it,
the more it was evident</i>

951
00:58:04,691 --> 00:58:07,610
<i>that we needed something light
as our starting off point.</i>

952
00:58:07,694 --> 00:58:12,281
<i>And it was that moment of
"Oh, Miss Grant's red Fiero could be</i>

953
00:58:12,365 --> 00:58:15,326
<i>"the car that takes us into space.</i>

954
00:58:15,493 --> 00:58:18,162
<i>So, it's one of those fun moments</i>

955
00:58:18,329 --> 00:58:21,541
<i>of just kind of reconnecting
with my childhood friends,</i>

956
00:58:21,624 --> 00:58:24,502
<i>and just happy accident in trying
to kind of figure out</i>

957
00:58:24,711 --> 00:58:31,259
<i>how to get, you know,
to this kind of crazy idea in</i> Fast

958
00:58:31,342 --> 00:58:34,012
<i>but hopefully do it
in a way that is kind of</i>

959
00:58:34,095 --> 00:58:38,182
<i>at least grounded in science
as our starting off point.</i>

960
00:58:45,273 --> 00:58:46,691
Who's Dominic Toretto?

961
00:58:55,241 --> 00:58:56,701
<i>Arigato.</i>

962
00:58:59,579 --> 00:59:01,581
This place is a dead end.

963
00:59:01,831 --> 00:59:03,583
Do you think Jakob could be
onto the Han connection?

964
00:59:03,666 --> 00:59:06,044
<i>This is one of my favorite scenes
in the film.</i>

965
00:59:06,127 --> 00:59:07,670
If he has all the information
we do...

966
00:59:08,129 --> 00:59:12,550
<i>It took a long time,
in the kind of the writing of it,</i>

967
00:59:12,633 --> 00:59:17,764
<i>and I had some really deep
and amazing conversation</i>

968
00:59:17,847 --> 00:59:20,558
<i>with Michelle and Jordana on it, you know.</i>

969
00:59:21,225 --> 00:59:25,688
<i>It's interesting because I think there's
a lot of articles about, you know, the...</i>

970
00:59:26,522 --> 00:59:28,941
<i>Yeah, I think Michelle was
very adamant and very vocal</i>

971
00:59:29,025 --> 00:59:33,237
<i>about the treatment
of the female characters in the franchise.</i>

972
00:59:33,738 --> 00:59:37,992
<i>And this is again one of those things
that was really weird for me,</i>

973
00:59:38,076 --> 00:59:41,788
<i>because when I was kind of
part of the</i> Fast <i>franchise,</i>

974
00:59:42,497 --> 00:59:47,251
<i>I've always felt like, you know,
Letty, Mia, Gisele, you know, Elena,</i>

975
00:59:47,335 --> 00:59:49,879
<i>a lot of our female characters were so...</i>

976
00:59:50,421 --> 00:59:53,299
<i>I had such a great time,
kind of crafting it with the actors</i>

977
00:59:53,382 --> 00:59:55,426
<i>and, kind of, building the characters.</i>

978
00:59:55,843 --> 00:59:59,847
<i>But I think, for whatever reason,
since I was gone,</i>

979
00:59:59,931 --> 01:00:01,849
<i>I actually, to this day,
I don't know what happened,</i>

980
01:00:01,933 --> 01:00:03,351
<i>but when I came back, there was...</i>

981
01:00:04,060 --> 01:00:06,062
<i>She was really upset.</i>

982
01:00:06,354 --> 01:00:09,190
<i>And totally justified, you know.</i>

983
01:00:09,273 --> 01:00:12,193
<i>And for me, you know,
I've had conversations with people</i>

984
01:00:12,276 --> 01:00:13,861
<i>that have seen the film going,</i>

985
01:00:13,945 --> 01:00:16,280
<i>"It must have been
a really tough conversation</i>

986
01:00:16,364 --> 01:00:18,533
<i>"with, like Michelle
and all the female cast."</i>

987
01:00:19,158 --> 01:00:23,371
<i>And I was like, "No, we never really had
those conversations." You know?</i>

988
01:00:23,454 --> 01:00:26,791
<i>I always felt like
I love these characters.</i>

989
01:00:27,458 --> 01:00:31,587
<i>And to be totally honest, I felt like
they were really underserved, you know?</i>

990
01:00:31,671 --> 01:00:33,840
<i>And so, it really was just one
of those things that</i>

991
01:00:33,923 --> 01:00:36,092
<i>it was very organic,
you know, to come back.</i>

992
01:00:36,551 --> 01:00:39,595
<i>I love these characters,
and I want to make sure that, you know,</i>

993
01:00:39,679 --> 01:00:45,309
<i>all our characters are being
really, kind of, loved and supported.</i>

994
01:00:45,852 --> 01:00:47,812
<i>And so it became very natural.</i>

995
01:00:47,979 --> 01:00:50,898
<i>So, you know, this scene though,</i>

996
01:00:50,982 --> 01:00:52,567
<i>in a big action movie
where you have two characters</i>

997
01:00:55,027 --> 01:00:57,446
<i>that were able to kind of sit down
and really kind of get a state</i>

998
01:00:57,530 --> 01:00:59,574
<i>of where they are as human beings,</i>

999
01:01:00,616 --> 01:01:03,786
<i>that was definitely one
of the gifts</i>

1000
01:01:03,870 --> 01:01:05,496
<i>of being able to kind of reconnect.</i>

1001
01:01:07,707 --> 01:01:08,916
No way.

1002
01:01:30,897 --> 01:01:34,775
<i>Here, this is a really fun sequence
with Queenie that's coming up.</i>

1003
01:01:35,193 --> 01:01:37,320
<i>And I would kind of point to this scene</i>

1004
01:01:37,403 --> 01:01:42,158
<i>as kind of the growth
and evolution of our franchise.</i>

1005
01:01:42,325 --> 01:01:46,078
<i>I think that a lot of times
when we shoot these scenes,</i>

1006
01:01:46,704 --> 01:01:48,873
<i>you're showing up on the day
and you're trying to find the scene</i>

1007
01:01:48,956 --> 01:01:53,753
<i>and what Helen did, that was amazing,
was that, you know, we rehearsed it,</i>

1008
01:01:54,128 --> 01:01:57,215
<i>and she was so on point</i>

1009
01:01:57,673 --> 01:02:00,885
<i>that it really kind of allowed
the camera work</i>

1010
01:02:01,928 --> 01:02:05,848
<i>to complement everything that's happening
between the characters, you know.</i>

1011
01:02:05,932 --> 01:02:10,228
<i>And I think as we are
growing as a franchise,</i>

1012
01:02:10,311 --> 01:02:16,859
<i>one of the things I love doing is to
not edit, is to create these moments</i>

1013
01:02:16,943 --> 01:02:19,779
<i>where our characters are
just living in that moment</i>

1014
01:02:19,862 --> 01:02:21,489
<i>and the camera is there with them.</i>

1015
01:02:22,198 --> 01:02:23,783
When are they gonna learn

1016
01:02:24,325 --> 01:02:26,160
some birds can't be caged?

1017
01:02:26,244 --> 01:02:28,204
Are you looking for one of me sons?

1018
01:02:29,538 --> 01:02:30,873
Not tonight.

1019
01:02:32,083 --> 01:02:33,960
<i>This was a great night in London</i>

1020
01:02:34,043 --> 01:02:38,005
<i>where, you know, when she showed up,
she really set the tone,</i>

1021
01:02:38,965 --> 01:02:42,218
<i>and Vin was amazing, and at that moment,
during the rehearsal,</i>

1022
01:02:42,301 --> 01:02:45,054
<i>I knew that I was able to, like,</i>

1023
01:02:45,137 --> 01:02:46,847
<i>really challenge everybody</i>

1024
01:02:46,931 --> 01:02:49,934
<i>so that we can capture
everything in camera</i>

1025
01:02:50,017 --> 01:02:54,271
<i>and not have to sometimes find
some of the beats in the editing.</i>

1026
01:03:02,071 --> 01:03:04,824
<i>This is the Queenie...
We call this the Queenie Chase</i>

1027
01:03:04,907 --> 01:03:06,659
<i>that we're shooting throughout London.</i>

1028
01:03:07,118 --> 01:03:09,829
<i>And it still blows me away
that they allowed us</i>

1029
01:03:09,912 --> 01:03:12,498
<i>to be so close to Buckingham Palace.</i>

1030
01:03:12,873 --> 01:03:15,918
<i>It just shows the kind
of earned relationship</i>

1031
01:03:16,002 --> 01:03:18,254
<i>we have with the government, I think,</i>

1032
01:03:18,337 --> 01:03:21,632
<i>because I can guarantee you,
when we were shooting there in</i> Fast 6,

1033
01:03:21,716 --> 01:03:24,927
<i>I wasn't being brought that close
to Buckingham Palace.</i>

1034
01:03:25,011 --> 01:03:29,223
<i>But I think having this as being
our second time shooting in the UK,</i>

1035
01:03:29,765 --> 01:03:32,768
<i>we definitely had much...
And I wouldn't say better,</i>

1036
01:03:32,893 --> 01:03:36,313
<i>but I think we've kind of earned
our way into locations</i>

1037
01:03:36,397 --> 01:03:40,067
<i>that I think weren't available to us
the first time around.</i>

1038
01:03:40,151 --> 01:03:41,944
...he was into
something big up in Edinburgh.

1039
01:03:46,949 --> 01:03:48,451
Local seller, huh?

1040
01:03:49,285 --> 01:03:51,912
She wouldn't happen to be
wearing a stolen necklace, would she?

1041
01:03:52,038 --> 01:03:54,165
He paid well. What was I supposed to do?

1042
01:03:54,248 --> 01:03:57,960
<i>This is also another kind of great day
for us on production,</i>

1043
01:03:58,044 --> 01:04:03,424
<i>just to be able to get in there
and work with Helen and Vin.</i>

1044
01:04:05,051 --> 01:04:06,761
Oh, bloody hell, he's not
your cousin...

1045
01:04:06,844 --> 01:04:11,432
<i>And obviously the scene is, you know,
for it to happen in this chase,</i>

1046
01:04:12,266 --> 01:04:15,978
<i>but really, it is her connecting with Dom.</i>

1047
01:04:16,270 --> 01:04:20,566
<i>She's kind of the mastermind in many ways,</i>

1048
01:04:20,649 --> 01:04:27,323
<i>and she's always kind of also testing Dom
and a lot of the characters.</i>

1049
01:04:27,406 --> 01:04:30,618
<i>And so to be able do that
in the middle of a chase,</i>

1050
01:04:30,701 --> 01:04:32,036
<i>it was a lot of fun.</i>

1051
01:04:32,119 --> 01:04:33,746
<i>It was a lot of fun
because Helen showed up</i>

1052
01:04:33,829 --> 01:04:37,625
<i>and she wanted to really understand
driving the Noble.</i>

1053
01:04:37,958 --> 01:04:41,045
<i>And she was able...</i>

1054
01:04:41,128 --> 01:04:43,506
<i>I mean, she learned it so fast,</i>

1055
01:04:44,090 --> 01:04:45,925
<i>and she never kind of lost continuity,</i>

1056
01:04:46,008 --> 01:04:48,427
<i>so she was able to, like, really mimic</i>

1057
01:04:48,511 --> 01:04:52,431
<i>the driving through London
as she was delivering the scene.</i>

1058
01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:54,433
<i>It was unbelievable, you know?</i>

1059
01:04:54,517 --> 01:04:56,519
<i>And actually it was interesting</i>

1060
01:04:56,602 --> 01:04:59,647
<i>because, you know,
growing up as a Laker fan,</i>

1061
01:04:59,855 --> 01:05:02,233
<i>I was always kind of fascinated
by the colors.</i>

1062
01:05:02,316 --> 01:05:04,985
<i>And growing up, it was called Forum Blue,</i>

1063
01:05:05,069 --> 01:05:08,656
<i>which is this kind of dark blue,
purple and gold.</i>

1064
01:05:09,031 --> 01:05:12,993
<i>And I remember learning that
that was kind of the royal colors.</i>

1065
01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:14,745
<i>Those are the Queen's colors.</i>

1066
01:05:17,414 --> 01:05:18,666
<i>And, so I thought,
"Oh, we get to finally get</i>

1067
01:05:18,749 --> 01:05:22,086
<i>"the thing that I loved as a kid,
I can match it."</i>

1068
01:05:22,419 --> 01:05:27,133
<i>And ultimately, you know, I couldn't
quite find the right purple.</i>

1069
01:05:27,299 --> 01:05:31,762
<i>I think the purple on the Noble is
actually a bit more purple than I like.</i>

1070
01:05:31,846 --> 01:05:33,889
<i>It was kind of more the 2000 Lakers color</i>

1071
01:05:33,973 --> 01:05:36,559
<i>as opposed to the color I was looking for,</i>

1072
01:05:36,642 --> 01:05:38,811
<i>which is the kind of 1980s Magic Johnson,</i>

1073
01:05:38,894 --> 01:05:40,980
<i>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar purple.</i>

1074
01:05:48,237 --> 01:05:50,114
Dominic Toretto.

1075
01:05:50,197 --> 01:05:53,659
Tell me.
Why is the best fruit always forbidden?

1076
01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:55,161
You should know.

1077
01:05:55,703 --> 01:05:58,205
<i>Here we had... This is
kind of a bonus moment</i>

1078
01:05:58,289 --> 01:06:01,417
<i>with Cardi's character
when she greets Dom.</i>

1079
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:04,628
<i>It was a lot of fun shooting it,</i>

1080
01:06:04,712 --> 01:06:07,464
<i>and ultimately, I felt like, you know,</i>

1081
01:06:07,548 --> 01:06:10,217
<i>it was better to kind of
hide her in the crowd</i>

1082
01:06:10,301 --> 01:06:12,511
<i>and reveal her in the back of the truck.</i>

1083
01:06:14,763 --> 01:06:16,223
Well, financier.

1084
01:06:17,057 --> 01:06:18,601
But, you know, my dad, he's a dictator,

1085
01:06:18,684 --> 01:06:20,019
so we're not talking regular people...

1086
01:06:20,186 --> 01:06:22,438
<i>Thue... And here we have Otto.</i>

1087
01:06:22,646 --> 01:06:26,775
<i>He is kind of the financier
for Jakob and Sue.</i>

1088
01:06:26,984 --> 01:06:30,362
<i>We actually have this backstory for Sue.</i>

1089
01:06:30,446 --> 01:06:33,449
<i>He was "The boy named Sue, "
the Johnny Cash song.</i>

1090
01:06:33,532 --> 01:06:36,952
<i>We had this whole thing,
and we even shot it, and it was awesome.</i>

1091
01:06:37,369 --> 01:06:40,414
<i>But ultimately, it just got to be
too long.</i>

1092
01:06:40,497 --> 01:06:44,919
<i>And it was one of the heartbreaks for me</i>

1093
01:06:45,002 --> 01:06:47,796
<i>because I love it when in movies,</i>

1094
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:50,883
<i>when you have these characters
that are kind of...</i>

1095
01:06:51,634 --> 01:06:55,638
<i>They're there as, quote-unquote, muscle
or whatever purpose,</i>

1096
01:06:55,763 --> 01:06:57,890
<i>and you realize there's a whole history,</i>

1097
01:06:57,973 --> 01:07:00,684
<i>and there was a whole back story
to these characters,</i>

1098
01:07:00,768 --> 01:07:04,480
<i>and we definitely had a lot of fun
with both Otto and Sue.</i>

1099
01:07:04,563 --> 01:07:08,567
<i>And the Sue thread
ultimately kind of got cut down,</i>

1100
01:07:08,651 --> 01:07:12,238
<i>and it was kind of...
I had it for a long time,</i>

1101
01:07:12,863 --> 01:07:14,073
<i>but it was the right choice,</i>

1102
01:07:14,198 --> 01:07:17,451
<i>but I just had so much fun
with Martyn on that.</i>

1103
01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:21,247
He's long gone.

1104
01:07:21,330 --> 01:07:24,917
All I see is the same scared little kid
that killed our father.

1105
01:07:27,044 --> 01:07:28,504
That's your mistake.

1106
01:07:31,048 --> 01:07:32,508
The spy game,

1107
01:07:33,676 --> 01:07:35,135
this is my world.

1108
01:07:40,516 --> 01:07:43,811
<i>And this is, you know, obviously
the first real face-to-face meeting</i>

1109
01:07:43,936 --> 01:07:46,480
<i>between Dom and Jakob.</i>

1110
01:07:48,941 --> 01:07:53,195
<i>I think, in this scene,
we actually had a lot more to it.</i>

1111
01:07:53,779 --> 01:07:56,448
<i>And in the earlier drafts,</i>

1112
01:07:56,907 --> 01:07:59,034
<i>I actually was playing with the flashbacks</i>

1113
01:07:59,785 --> 01:08:03,706
<i>where it explained a lot more
of where Jakob was</i>

1114
01:08:04,373 --> 01:08:07,251
<i>during even the events
of the first</i> Fast and the Furious.

1115
01:08:07,835 --> 01:08:09,795
<i>And we had this amazing shot</i>

1116
01:08:09,878 --> 01:08:12,798
<i>where I took footage
from the first</i> Fast and the Furious

1117
01:08:12,881 --> 01:08:17,219
<i>that handed off into a young Jakob
who was in the crowd</i>

1118
01:08:17,303 --> 01:08:19,221
<i>when Dom was racing Brian.</i>

1119
01:08:19,888 --> 01:08:23,934
<i>And it was an expensive, extensive shot</i>

1120
01:08:24,184 --> 01:08:26,729
<i>that took us months and months to prepare.</i>

1121
01:08:27,062 --> 01:08:30,399
<i>And Peter Chiang, our VFX supervisor,
did an amazing job,</i>

1122
01:08:30,482 --> 01:08:33,068
<i>and as we were working on that shot,</i>

1123
01:08:33,569 --> 01:08:38,240
<i>it was so good
that it really took me out of the movie,</i>

1124
01:08:38,782 --> 01:08:42,953
<i>so much so that I ultimately
cut it from everything,</i>

1125
01:08:43,037 --> 01:08:46,290
<i>because I didn't want the audience
to be taken out that much.</i>

1126
01:08:47,249 --> 01:08:49,918
<i>And I think ultimately it was
the right call, and it's better here</i>

1127
01:08:50,002 --> 01:08:53,839
<i>because it's kind of referenced to
as opposed to kind of shown.</i>

1128
01:08:54,256 --> 01:08:58,093
<i>And again, I hope that there's going
to be other opportunities for us</i>

1129
01:08:58,177 --> 01:09:00,429
<i>to really kind of explore that chapter.</i>

1130
01:09:00,512 --> 01:09:03,515
<i>And I think we'll be able to do it
in a much better way</i>

1131
01:09:03,599 --> 01:09:07,436
<i>than to be able to cram it
into, you know, this film.</i>

1132
01:09:08,437 --> 01:09:10,981
And here I thought my dad
was a pain in the ass.

1133
01:09:12,441 --> 01:09:14,943
But your family is a train wreck.

1134
01:09:15,903 --> 01:09:18,739
Well, now that your brother's
finally out of the game,

1135
01:09:18,822 --> 01:09:20,532
it's time we go to Edinburgh.

1136
01:09:20,866 --> 01:09:24,328
Get the second piece,
maybe do a little sightseeing, huh?

1137
01:09:25,412 --> 01:09:27,581
<i>Otto, with his father issues,</i>

1138
01:09:27,831 --> 01:09:31,960
<i>I had so much fun with Thue,
kind of working on his relationship.</i>

1139
01:09:32,044 --> 01:09:34,713
<i>And we had numerous conversations,</i>

1140
01:09:34,797 --> 01:09:36,715
<i>so that when we were doing this scene,</i>

1141
01:09:36,799 --> 01:09:39,635
<i>you really get
his relationship with his father.</i>

1142
01:09:40,094 --> 01:09:43,931
<i>And he was so much fun
to work with and build Otto.</i>

1143
01:09:44,014 --> 01:09:47,351
<i>Because I think very easily
he could just be a stock character.</i>

1144
01:09:47,434 --> 01:09:49,269
<i>But I think if you watch
the film, you can see that</i>

1145
01:09:49,353 --> 01:09:53,565
<i>he's a fully developed character
and it's something that I enjoy.</i>

1146
01:10:00,239 --> 01:10:02,157
<i>So, here is Cardi's scene.</i>

1147
01:10:02,241 --> 01:10:07,329
<i>And this is really a big Easter egg
for the fans.</i>

1148
01:10:07,413 --> 01:10:12,209
<i>You know, I think the fans that
maybe had not followed the</i> Fast <i>Saga,</i>

1149
01:10:12,292 --> 01:10:16,171
<i>they'll know her as someone
that's working with Queenie,</i>

1150
01:10:16,255 --> 01:10:20,384
<i>that was probably in a white dress,
that was planted in there to help Dom out,</i>

1151
01:10:20,717 --> 01:10:22,845
<i>but she's actually the sister of Cara.</i>

1152
01:10:22,928 --> 01:10:28,851
<i>Cara is Han's significant other
in</i> Fast 4.

1153
01:10:28,934 --> 01:10:33,063
<i>And they used to, in D.R., they would
steal gas for the people.</i>

1154
01:10:33,147 --> 01:10:36,442
<i>So there was a whole connection there
that I talked to Vin about.</i>

1155
01:10:36,859 --> 01:10:41,238
<i>And, so now Cardi has
been introduced in our franchise</i>

1156
01:10:41,321 --> 01:10:44,783
<i>as a character
that's basically been around</i>

1157
01:10:44,867 --> 01:10:47,619
<i>since, you know,</i> Fast 4.

1158
01:10:48,036 --> 01:10:50,873
<i>So, you know, I'm hoping
that there will be an opportunity</i>

1159
01:10:50,956 --> 01:10:53,208
<i>for us to explore that character more.</i>

1160
01:11:08,765 --> 01:11:12,978
<i>So here, we're introducing
this, kind of, new element to Han</i>

1161
01:11:13,061 --> 01:11:16,940
<i>to explain his absence
and how he's alive.</i>

1162
01:11:17,483 --> 01:11:20,027
<i>This is something that we worked on a lot.</i>

1163
01:11:20,110 --> 01:11:23,405
<i>And I have to say, it kind of felt poetic.</i>

1164
01:11:24,656 --> 01:11:26,408
<i>This whole "Justice for Han"...</i>

1165
01:11:27,117 --> 01:11:29,077
<i>Because when I left,</i>

1166
01:11:29,161 --> 01:11:32,623
<i>I didn't engage on any of the other films,</i>

1167
01:11:32,998 --> 01:11:37,544
<i>it was during the screening
of my indie movie</i> Better Luck Tomorrow,

1168
01:11:37,628 --> 01:11:41,215
<i>at the Egyptian, where, I think,
the fans during the Q&A, brought up</i>

1169
01:11:41,298 --> 01:11:44,343
<i>this idea, or this movement
of "Justice for Han."</i>

1170
01:11:45,135 --> 01:11:47,304
<i>And when I heard it,
I was totally baffled.</i>

1171
01:11:47,387 --> 01:11:49,598
<i>To this day, I have no idea why</i>

1172
01:11:50,474 --> 01:11:54,019
<i>the whole Shaw showing up
at the barbecue at the end of</i> 8

1173
01:11:54,102 --> 01:11:57,397
<i>was handled that way.
I mean, you know, when I left,</i>

1174
01:11:57,898 --> 01:11:59,858
<i>Shaw had killed Han,</i>

1175
01:12:00,400 --> 01:12:03,612
<i>and he was the antagonist
to Dom and the family.</i>

1176
01:12:03,987 --> 01:12:06,114
<i>And, you know, I don't mind</i>

1177
01:12:06,198 --> 01:12:10,536
<i>when characters can maybe show up
and they can change sides.</i>

1178
01:12:10,619 --> 01:12:13,372
<i>I think it's part of</i> Fast <i>universe.</i>

1179
01:12:13,539 --> 01:12:15,040
<i>But I just never...
You know, when I came back,</i>

1180
01:12:15,123 --> 01:12:20,045
<i>there was after the discovering
this whole "Justice for Han" movement,</i>

1181
01:12:20,587 --> 01:12:22,589
<i>I even sat and talked to the studio,</i>

1182
01:12:22,673 --> 01:12:25,801
<i>and I said, "What happened?"
And nobody could give me an answer.</i>

1183
01:12:25,884 --> 01:12:27,344
<i>You know? And, so...</i>

1184
01:12:27,886 --> 01:12:31,932
<i>I think it ultimately was great
because to be able to come back,</i>

1185
01:12:32,015 --> 01:12:34,601
<i>I felt like it was something
that needed to be addressed.</i>

1186
01:12:34,685 --> 01:12:38,188
<i>And, you know, I think
part of the gift of it is that,</i>

1187
01:12:38,272 --> 01:12:40,315
<i>if they actually did handle it correctly,</i>

1188
01:12:40,399 --> 01:12:42,442
<i>then Han would
probably stay dead, you know?</i>

1189
01:12:42,526 --> 01:12:45,404
<i>And, so I think, you know,
for whatever reason,</i>

1190
01:12:45,487 --> 01:12:50,909
<i>the way it was handled, you know,
really, for me, needed some answers.</i>

1191
01:12:50,993 --> 01:12:54,162
<i>And because of that,
I was able to come back</i>

1192
01:12:54,329 --> 01:12:58,333
<i>and be part of the solution
in answering that.</i>

1193
01:12:58,417 --> 01:13:01,962
<i>And by answering that, you know,
I was able to bring Han back.</i>

1194
01:13:02,045 --> 01:13:05,841
<i>So it actually ends up being a win-win.</i>

1195
01:13:24,651 --> 01:13:25,944
You okay?

1196
01:13:26,028 --> 01:13:30,032
<i>This moment here...
You know, in Tokyo with Han,</i>

1197
01:13:30,115 --> 01:13:31,199
<i>it was just a great moment.</i>

1198
01:13:31,325 --> 01:13:34,745
<i>It was again, one of those things
where, in writing it, developing it,</i>

1199
01:13:34,828 --> 01:13:36,580
<i>I knew what we were doing.</i>

1200
01:13:36,705 --> 01:13:39,875
<i>But it wasn't until we were shooting
and you see it through the lens,</i>

1201
01:13:39,958 --> 01:13:42,336
<i>and you see Han's face,</i>

1202
01:13:42,419 --> 01:13:45,464
<i>that, like, I got chills, you know.</i>

1203
01:13:45,547 --> 01:13:51,303
<i>And it was something that, you know,
as we get into more of the film,</i>

1204
01:13:51,386 --> 01:13:55,515
<i>I'll try to share a little bit more
of the reasons and the process</i>

1205
01:13:55,599 --> 01:13:56,725
<i>of bringing him back.</i>

1206
01:14:15,744 --> 01:14:18,622
<i>We're hitting this Edinburgh sequence,</i>

1207
01:14:18,705 --> 01:14:22,125
<i>and this actually is an amazing location.</i>

1208
01:14:24,127 --> 01:14:27,381
<i>And it was actually a pivotal,
not just on a logistical level,</i>

1209
01:14:28,048 --> 01:14:29,966
<i>but creatively,</i>

1210
01:14:30,050 --> 01:14:33,804
<i>you know, we take this train
from London to Edinburgh,</i>

1211
01:14:33,887 --> 01:14:38,975
<i>and it ended up being a defining moment
in the development of the film.</i>

1212
01:14:43,772 --> 01:14:46,191
<i>When I first came back,</i>

1213
01:14:46,525 --> 01:14:50,821
<i>I actually wasn't planning on bringing
Han back alive.</i>

1214
01:14:50,904 --> 01:14:53,990
<i>We were gonna address Justice for Han,
but he was going to stay dead.</i>

1215
01:14:54,074 --> 01:14:58,245
<i>So a lot of this stuff was going to be
handled in the flashbacks.</i>

1216
01:15:00,205 --> 01:15:04,584
<i>But it was actually in the train ride
to Edinburgh that Jeff Kirschenbaum,</i>

1217
01:15:04,668 --> 01:15:06,169
<i>who is an executive that...</i>

1218
01:15:06,253 --> 01:15:09,673
<i>When I started</i> Tokyo Drift,
<i>he was executive on it,</i>

1219
01:15:09,756 --> 01:15:13,635
<i>and we kind of grew up together
making the</i> Fast <i>movies.</i>

1220
01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:16,221
<i>And then we both left the franchise.</i>

1221
01:15:16,596 --> 01:15:21,351
<i>And so when I came back, I felt it was
important to have him be a part of this.</i>

1222
01:15:21,435 --> 01:15:26,148
<i>So he became a producer on this film,
and he's a big part...</i>

1223
01:15:26,231 --> 01:15:29,234
<i>He's one of the architects.</i>

1224
01:15:29,693 --> 01:15:33,488
<i>I consider him a partner
on the building of this franchise.</i>

1225
01:15:34,239 --> 01:15:39,703
<i>And it was on that train ride
that we started talking about Han.</i>

1226
01:15:40,412 --> 01:15:42,539
<i>And, I think, one of the things
that is great about Kirsch</i>

1227
01:15:42,622 --> 01:15:47,210
<i>is that his enthusiasm
for this franchise has no boundaries.</i>

1228
01:15:47,794 --> 01:15:51,173
<i>And I would say 99 out of 100 times,</i>

1229
01:15:51,882 --> 01:15:54,176
<i>he would say the most outrageous things,</i>

1230
01:15:54,259 --> 01:15:58,013
<i>and he would get crapped on
and laughed at by me, mostly by me.</i>

1231
01:15:58,638 --> 01:16:01,475
<i>And I love crapping on
and laughing at Kirsch.</i>

1232
01:16:02,184 --> 01:16:05,562
<i>But one out of 100,
this guy will say something</i>

1233
01:16:05,645 --> 01:16:09,274
<i>that maybe doesn't even make sense
in the beginning,</i>

1234
01:16:09,983 --> 01:16:13,320
<i>but ultimately becomes a brilliant idea,</i>

1235
01:16:13,403 --> 01:16:19,493
<i>which is this idea of Justice for Han
is not just justice for Han.</i>

1236
01:16:19,576 --> 01:16:21,328
<i>Let's bring him back for real.</i>

1237
01:16:21,620 --> 01:16:23,789
<i>And I have to admit, I get it.</i>

1238
01:16:23,872 --> 01:16:27,626
<i>I don't get up in the morning and say,</i>

1239
01:16:27,709 --> 01:16:29,836
<i>"Hey, let's just bring
dead characters back."</i>

1240
01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:32,422
<i>I don't want to do that, as a rule.</i>

1241
01:16:32,756 --> 01:16:37,260
<i>And I think even when on this train ride
when Kirsch brought up the idea,</i>

1242
01:16:38,094 --> 01:16:40,472
<i>I thought it was nuts.</i>

1243
01:16:40,722 --> 01:16:42,224
<i>But for some reason,</i>

1244
01:16:42,307 --> 01:16:44,601
<i>I think in the second or third hour
of the train ride,</i>

1245
01:16:45,393 --> 01:16:46,978
<i>it started settling in.</i>

1246
01:16:47,813 --> 01:16:52,150
<i>And then we started discussing
about what we were working on</i>

1247
01:16:52,234 --> 01:16:57,239
<i>with the back story of Han,
and how he could actually be alive.</i>

1248
01:16:57,322 --> 01:17:00,075
<i>And it actually made more sense.</i>

1249
01:17:00,158 --> 01:17:02,619
<i>But it was a very organic way for me.</i>

1250
01:17:02,702 --> 01:17:08,959
<i>That morning, I did not wake up thinking
that Han was going to be alive to...</i>

1251
01:17:09,042 --> 01:17:13,213
<i>This train ride,
by the time we landed in Edinburgh,</i>

1252
01:17:13,296 --> 01:17:15,841
<i>that, "Oh, my God. Han is alive."</i>

1253
01:17:16,049 --> 01:17:19,177
<i>So it was a...
It was an amazing ride,</i>

1254
01:17:19,261 --> 01:17:22,264
<i>and it was very inspired.</i>

1255
01:17:23,223 --> 01:17:24,599
<i>It just kind of shows...</i>

1256
01:17:24,683 --> 01:17:27,143
<i>It reminds me of the spirit
of</i> Fast & Furious,

1257
01:17:28,186 --> 01:17:33,233
<i>is to never
fully just reject things because...</i>

1258
01:17:33,733 --> 01:17:34,734
<i>Just because.</i>

1259
01:17:34,818 --> 01:17:38,947
<i>And it's never to condescend on anything.</i>

1260
01:17:39,072 --> 01:17:42,826
<i>And the fact that I have
this amazing group of people,</i>

1261
01:17:42,909 --> 01:17:46,329
<i>where we can say
the most ridiculous things,</i>

1262
01:17:46,413 --> 01:17:50,500
<i>but feel there's enough support where...</i>

1263
01:17:50,625 --> 01:17:53,211
<i>We can laugh at each other,
we can crap on each other,</i>

1264
01:17:53,295 --> 01:17:56,381
<i>but to be able to take it seriously
at some point,</i>

1265
01:17:56,464 --> 01:17:57,465
<i>it's really rare.</i>

1266
01:17:57,716 --> 01:17:59,801
<i>I could say that in Hollywood,</i>

1267
01:17:59,926 --> 01:18:03,597
<i>where you'd think
that creativity is embraced,</i>

1268
01:18:04,306 --> 01:18:08,143
<i>it's actually very much something
that you have to fight for.</i>

1269
01:18:08,226 --> 01:18:11,271
<i>A lot of times, there's so many agendas
when it comes to budgets,</i>

1270
01:18:11,354 --> 01:18:13,273
<i>and there's all these things.</i>

1271
01:18:13,356 --> 01:18:16,902
<i>And a lot of times when you make
these big tent-pole sequels,</i>

1272
01:18:16,985 --> 01:18:20,989
<i>the tendency sometimes with success
is that, "Well, we know what works,</i>

1273
01:18:21,156 --> 01:18:22,574
<i>"so let's keep doing the same thing."</i>

1274
01:18:23,325 --> 01:18:25,869
<i>And so to be able
to be a part of this process</i>

1275
01:18:25,952 --> 01:18:30,081
<i>where we're saying,
"No, we were successful in the last film</i>

1276
01:18:30,165 --> 01:18:31,416
<i>"because of A,</i>

1277
01:18:31,541 --> 01:18:35,045
<i>"but I think it's potentially yielding
something that we've earned.</i>

1278
01:18:35,170 --> 01:18:36,588
<i>"Let's try something brand new."</i>

1279
01:18:37,213 --> 01:18:40,050
<i>It sounds kind of logical, but is also...</i>

1280
01:18:40,133 --> 01:18:42,594
<i>I think in the business sense,
it's the scariest thing</i>

1281
01:18:42,677 --> 01:18:47,390
<i>to always be exploring
and trying new things.</i>

1282
01:18:47,766 --> 01:18:50,518
<i>And I think that's what I love
about doing these films.</i>

1283
01:18:50,936 --> 01:18:53,313
<i>And that is what I love
about being with Universal</i>

1284
01:18:53,396 --> 01:18:55,982
<i>and the group of people
that I work with in that,</i>

1285
01:18:57,609 --> 01:19:00,403
<i>we're never trying to do the same thing.</i>

1286
01:19:00,487 --> 01:19:04,699
<i>If we were, I wouldn't be making
the fifth movie in this franchise.</i>

1287
01:19:04,783 --> 01:19:08,411
<i>I feel like every one that I've done
have been completely different,</i>

1288
01:19:08,495 --> 01:19:11,164
<i>thematically, and also
in what we're trying to explore.</i>

1289
01:19:11,873 --> 01:19:17,504
<i>And I think that, for me, on this one,
is to embrace what we've evolved to,</i>

1290
01:19:17,587 --> 01:19:22,550
<i>over-the-top action
and just even taking ideas.</i>

1291
01:19:23,176 --> 01:19:25,637
<i>And it's almost become science fiction,</i>

1292
01:19:25,971 --> 01:19:30,558
<i>but at the same time being able to explore
and go back to what started it all.</i>

1293
01:19:31,017 --> 01:19:33,520
<i>I feel like that balance
was such a new thing for us,</i>

1294
01:19:34,270 --> 01:19:39,109
<i>that if we're able to earn
the emotional connection,</i>

1295
01:19:39,192 --> 01:19:42,028
<i>the emotional exploration
on a very real level,</i>

1296
01:19:42,612 --> 01:19:44,906
<i>then it allows us, gave us license</i>

1297
01:19:44,990 --> 01:19:49,744
<i>to then push the ridiculousness
of the tone of the action.</i>

1298
01:19:49,828 --> 01:19:52,038
<i>But I felt like
if we weren't able to do that,</i>

1299
01:19:52,122 --> 01:19:54,457
<i>then we wouldn't be able
to really evolve our action.</i>

1300
01:20:45,675 --> 01:20:46,676
Shit.

1301
01:20:50,263 --> 01:20:51,264
Hey!

1302
01:20:51,347 --> 01:20:53,058
<i>And here you have...
I'm just going to point out,</i>

1303
01:20:53,141 --> 01:20:55,602
<i>that's my son and all the kids.</i>

1304
01:20:55,685 --> 01:21:00,899
<i>I think Jordana's son,
J. J. Perry, Samantha Vincent.</i>

1305
01:21:02,108 --> 01:21:04,194
<i>It's become a tradition for us</i>

1306
01:21:04,569 --> 01:21:08,740
<i>to have these kids in the middle
of these big action set pieces.</i>

1307
01:21:09,032 --> 01:21:10,784
<i>My gut is that it's going to keep growing</i>

1308
01:21:10,867 --> 01:21:13,620
<i>just because when we started,
there were no kids,</i>

1309
01:21:13,870 --> 01:21:15,747
<i>and I think</i> Fast 5 <i>was the first time</i>

1310
01:21:15,830 --> 01:21:19,417
<i>where my son was
a year-and-a-half old,</i>

1311
01:21:19,501 --> 01:21:21,127
<i>and I was doing the vault scene,</i>

1312
01:21:21,211 --> 01:21:24,297
<i>and I wanted to inject
a little bit of humanity in there,</i>

1313
01:21:24,380 --> 01:21:27,842
<i>and I thought,
"Yeah. What about a young kid?"</i>

1314
01:21:27,926 --> 01:21:29,761
<i>And I thought,
"Yeah, I have one of those, "</i>

1315
01:21:29,844 --> 01:21:32,388
<i>and then that's when we started,
and then it just kept...</i>

1316
01:21:32,472 --> 01:21:34,974
<i>For me, it's always good</i>

1317
01:21:35,058 --> 01:21:39,479
<i>to connect with humanity
in the middle of these set pieces,</i>

1318
01:21:39,562 --> 01:21:41,272
<i>so it's become a tradition for us.</i>

1319
01:21:50,156 --> 01:21:51,491
Oh, no!

1320
01:21:54,077 --> 01:21:56,121
<i>The Ramsey driving scene,</i>

1321
01:21:56,204 --> 01:22:00,041
<i>it was one of those great
character threads that I loved.</i>

1322
01:22:00,542 --> 01:22:05,004
<i>I think, to me, I remember
talking about this character.</i>

1323
01:22:05,088 --> 01:22:06,256
<i>She wasn't named Ramsey,</i>

1324
01:22:06,339 --> 01:22:09,717
<i>but we were talking about this
computer hacker character</i>

1325
01:22:09,801 --> 01:22:11,261
<i>all the way back to</i> Fast 5.

1326
01:22:11,636 --> 01:22:13,555
<i>And then, when I showed up, she was...</i>

1327
01:22:13,638 --> 01:22:17,058
<i>Nathalie had taken over,
and they birthed the character.</i>

1328
01:22:17,267 --> 01:22:19,644
<i>But it was interesting to me,
meeting with her.</i>

1329
01:22:19,727 --> 01:22:22,230
<i>It was very clear
that there's so much to her</i>

1330
01:22:22,313 --> 01:22:23,439
<i>that hasn't been explored.</i>

1331
01:22:23,523 --> 01:22:27,694
<i>So it was just a great opportunity
to be able to introduce something new.</i>

1332
01:22:27,777 --> 01:22:32,824
<i>The fact that I always love meeting,
not savants, but even geniuses,</i>

1333
01:22:33,158 --> 01:22:35,702
<i>and seeing that they are human beings.</i>

1334
01:22:35,785 --> 01:22:37,662
<i>She could hack
everything in the world,</i>

1335
01:22:37,745 --> 01:22:40,582
<i>but the price of that is that
she's never driven a car,</i>

1336
01:22:40,665 --> 01:22:43,168
<i>and that was very exciting for me,
to be able to explore that.</i>

1337
01:22:43,251 --> 01:22:45,003
<i>And I think it's unlocked something</i>

1338
01:22:45,086 --> 01:22:48,339
<i>that now I feel like I have
a better sense of Ramsey,</i>

1339
01:22:48,423 --> 01:22:51,384
<i>and there's going to be a lot more
that we get to explore.</i>

1340
01:23:01,895 --> 01:23:03,771
Otto, sending you new pickup location.

1341
01:23:11,738 --> 01:23:13,489
I've got it. I'm headed to you now.

1342
01:23:13,948 --> 01:23:15,992
<i>And here you can see the brother fight.</i>

1343
01:23:16,075 --> 01:23:19,579
<i>This is something
that I wanted to be in close quarters,</i>

1344
01:23:19,662 --> 01:23:22,874
<i>and it was something
that I felt like tonally,</i>

1345
01:23:22,957 --> 01:23:26,711
<i>it needed to capture anybody
that's ever had siblings,</i>

1346
01:23:26,794 --> 01:23:29,297
<i>where you can fight strangers,</i>

1347
01:23:29,380 --> 01:23:32,717
<i>but something about blood,
where it always feels</i>

1348
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:34,344
<i>one hundred times more intense.</i>

1349
01:23:34,969 --> 01:23:37,180
<i>And that evolved to them</i>

1350
01:23:37,263 --> 01:23:41,517
<i>going through walls
and windows and everything.</i>

1351
01:23:42,018 --> 01:23:45,438
<i>And this is really
more of just an exercise</i>

1352
01:23:45,521 --> 01:23:50,902
<i>of trying to articulate for anybody
that doesn't have siblings.</i>

1353
01:23:51,569 --> 01:23:56,157
<i>If we were able to manifest that
into an action sequence in a fight,</i>

1354
01:23:56,282 --> 01:23:58,743
<i>what that would be
and the scale of that.</i>

1355
01:23:58,826 --> 01:24:01,788
<i>It really was not even
the physical objects and things</i>

1356
01:24:01,871 --> 01:24:03,373
<i>that we were designing,</i>

1357
01:24:03,456 --> 01:24:05,917
<i>it was more of the feel for it.</i>

1358
01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:08,544
<i>So it was a great exercise of doing that,</i>

1359
01:24:08,628 --> 01:24:11,172
<i>and giving it its own tone</i>

1360
01:24:11,256 --> 01:24:13,967
<i>that's different
than the rest of the sequences.</i>

1361
01:24:35,280 --> 01:24:39,784
<i>This is integrating
the craziest thing that we're introducing,</i>

1362
01:24:39,867 --> 01:24:40,952
<i>which, you know...</i>

1363
01:24:41,035 --> 01:24:44,122
<i>I know people talk about going to space.</i>

1364
01:24:44,497 --> 01:24:48,543
<i>I actually think that after talking
to NASA scientists and everything,</i>

1365
01:24:48,626 --> 01:24:53,131
<i>I actually felt like there's much more
sound science in going to space.</i>

1366
01:24:53,464 --> 01:24:58,052
<i>This whole magnet tech, actually,
didn't start off as me going,</i>

1367
01:24:58,136 --> 01:25:00,388
<i>"Hey, let's go and explore magnets."
It actually...</i>

1368
01:25:00,471 --> 01:25:04,559
<i>We were doing this scout,
and I was actually in Hamburg, Germany,</i>

1369
01:25:04,934 --> 01:25:07,687
<i>and I was interested
in particle accelerators,</i>

1370
01:25:08,271 --> 01:25:11,983
<i>and I remember going underground
and walking it with these scientists,</i>

1371
01:25:12,108 --> 01:25:15,611
<i>and they were talking to me
about particle accelerators</i>

1372
01:25:16,112 --> 01:25:18,614
<i>and the magnet tech that it took.</i>

1373
01:25:18,698 --> 01:25:21,951
<i>And, actually, that's what
inspired this whole thing.</i>

1374
01:25:22,410 --> 01:25:26,164
<i>And so I started asking questions
about magnets.</i>

1375
01:25:26,247 --> 01:25:28,875
<i>And I think we ended up
in some restaurant,</i>

1376
01:25:28,958 --> 01:25:31,669
<i>having our lunch with pints of beer.</i>

1377
01:25:32,170 --> 01:25:37,633
<i>It evolved into
from particle acceleration into magnets.</i>

1378
01:25:38,092 --> 01:25:41,012
<i>And so that actually was the origin
of this whole thing.</i>

1379
01:25:41,095 --> 01:25:44,182
<i>And I start asking about
the magnet techs and everything.</i>

1380
01:25:44,557 --> 01:25:48,227
<i>And I think, with everything,
it was always started off in reality,</i>

1381
01:25:48,311 --> 01:25:52,398
<i>and then I think the questions I had
was more of just</i>

1382
01:25:52,482 --> 01:25:57,487
<i>aspiration of that technology,
and it just set me off.</i>

1383
01:25:57,695 --> 01:26:02,784
<i>And I think that was the origin
of what we were going to do in this film.</i>

1384
01:26:03,409 --> 01:26:06,579
<i>And it became,
I wouldn't say like fiction.</i>

1385
01:26:06,662 --> 01:26:08,748
<i>It was still based on something.</i>

1386
01:26:08,831 --> 01:26:12,794
<i>I think a lot of it was in theory,
and then creatively,</i>

1387
01:26:12,877 --> 01:26:15,213
<i>I just took license to it,
and we just evolved it.</i>

1388
01:26:15,296 --> 01:26:18,424
<i>So, at the end of the day,
I actually think that it's interesting</i>

1389
01:26:18,508 --> 01:26:22,053
<i>because it was based on
something that was science.</i>

1390
01:26:22,178 --> 01:26:25,223
<i>And then we just, through questioning,
it evolved into something</i>

1391
01:26:25,306 --> 01:26:27,934
<i>that maybe one day
science will catch up to.</i>

1392
01:26:28,017 --> 01:26:30,353
<i>I don't know.
But it was something we're playing with.</i>

1393
01:26:30,853 --> 01:26:32,355
We're the good guys.

1394
01:26:32,438 --> 01:26:34,649
Me? I'm Luke freaking Skywalker.

1395
01:26:34,941 --> 01:26:36,442
Are you sure about that?

1396
01:26:37,276 --> 01:26:39,487
I mean, I get the daddy issues, but...

1397
01:26:41,531 --> 01:26:43,116
Look at what you've built.

1398
01:26:44,909 --> 01:26:46,577
Really? Luke?

1399
01:26:47,954 --> 01:26:49,247
You're right.

1400
01:26:49,831 --> 01:26:51,624
No, I'm more of a Han Solo.

1401
01:26:52,750 --> 01:26:53,960
No.

1402
01:26:54,460 --> 01:26:57,672
<i>And here, this scene
between Cipher and Otto,</i>

1403
01:26:57,964 --> 01:27:01,008
<i>it is one of those...
Again, it is one those really scary</i>

1404
01:27:01,801 --> 01:27:05,138
<i>things to concede,
because if you see the earlier scene,</i>

1405
01:27:05,221 --> 01:27:08,516
<i>she started clocking Otto
as her ticket way out.</i>

1406
01:27:08,599 --> 01:27:10,685
<i>And here, we needed a scene</i>

1407
01:27:10,768 --> 01:27:14,772
<i>where she was going to be able
to pull him in,</i>

1408
01:27:15,982 --> 01:27:20,486
<i>but not only destroy
his being, his philosophy,</i>

1409
01:27:20,987 --> 01:27:23,698
<i>but knowing that he's going to come back
and open up that door.</i>

1410
01:27:24,407 --> 01:27:27,743
<i>And we had to do that
in that one quick scene.</i>

1411
01:27:28,119 --> 01:27:31,205
<i>But I... On the day,
working with both actors,</i>

1412
01:27:31,289 --> 01:27:33,583
<i>I just felt like without them,</i>

1413
01:27:33,666 --> 01:27:36,169
<i>there's no way
we're able to have a chance.</i>

1414
01:27:36,252 --> 01:27:40,047
<i>So, it's again
one of those gymnastics</i>

1415
01:27:40,131 --> 01:27:44,677
<i>of trying to make sure that maybe
you don't get it in the first bounce,</i>

1416
01:27:44,802 --> 01:27:49,348
<i>but when the twist and reveal happened,
it will all make sense.</i>

1417
01:27:49,432 --> 01:27:54,562
<i>And I felt like Charlize and Thue
just did an amazing job in that scene.</i>

1418
01:27:57,690 --> 01:27:58,774
Man.

1419
01:27:58,858 --> 01:28:02,195
There is literally zero industrial
or weapons-grade electromagnets

1420
01:28:02,278 --> 01:28:04,113
I can find that are this powerful.

1421
01:28:04,197 --> 01:28:05,781
Look at the pull strength level here.

1422
01:28:05,865 --> 01:28:07,366
- It's crazy.
- Yeah.

1423
01:28:08,576 --> 01:28:09,785
Wait, watch this.

1424
01:28:12,163 --> 01:28:14,665
<i>So, just going back to the magnet tech,</i>

1425
01:28:15,833 --> 01:28:19,962
<i>we have actually spent way more time
in a lot of the tech,</i>

1426
01:28:20,296 --> 01:28:24,592
<i>that was based on science,
and it just evolved into our world.</i>

1427
01:28:25,051 --> 01:28:27,762
<i>And I know I spent way too much time.</i>

1428
01:28:27,845 --> 01:28:29,180
<i>I think even in shooting it,</i>

1429
01:28:29,263 --> 01:28:32,058
<i>there was a lot more logic
into the magnets.</i>

1430
01:28:32,433 --> 01:28:36,187
<i>Ultimately, they're still there
if you freeze frame it,</i>

1431
01:28:36,771 --> 01:28:38,606
<i>but it's actually in the edit,</i>

1432
01:28:38,981 --> 01:28:42,026
<i>I decided not to really spend
too much time on it.</i>

1433
01:28:42,151 --> 01:28:45,821
<i>But it's there and we...
Actually, in the construction of it,</i>

1434
01:28:46,322 --> 01:28:49,075
<i>there's actually a logic
to everything that was happening.</i>

1435
01:28:51,827 --> 01:28:53,204
'Sup, man?

1436
01:28:58,209 --> 01:28:59,335
Nice to meet you.

1437
01:29:04,674 --> 01:29:09,136
<i>And so this is another one of those scenes
that in writing it, you're like,</i>

1438
01:29:09,220 --> 01:29:12,139
<i>"Yeah, at some point, if Han's alive,
he's going to meet the family."</i>

1439
01:29:12,765 --> 01:29:17,520
<i>And it wasn't until this moment,
where Dom embraces Han,</i>

1440
01:29:19,188 --> 01:29:22,817
<i>he basically gives the okay
to not only the characters,</i>

1441
01:29:22,900 --> 01:29:26,404
<i>but to the fans to say Han is back.</i>

1442
01:29:26,487 --> 01:29:30,741
<i>But, at the same time,
trying to build in the triangle,</i>

1443
01:29:30,825 --> 01:29:33,077
<i>this idea of family through Jakob.</i>

1444
01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:35,413
<i>To me, that was a... That was...</i>

1445
01:29:35,496 --> 01:29:37,039
<i>We needed every piece to work.</i>

1446
01:29:37,123 --> 01:29:40,626
How you doin'? Stayin' out of trouble?

1447
01:29:42,878 --> 01:29:45,089
Of course not.
Well, at least you're honest.

1448
01:29:45,172 --> 01:29:47,216
And that's the most important thing.

1449
01:29:48,050 --> 01:29:50,303
<i>And here we have the scene,</i>

1450
01:29:50,386 --> 01:29:53,222
<i>and this is also another scene
that stayed in for a while,</i>

1451
01:29:54,599 --> 01:29:57,101
<i>and it was to check in
with Little Brian.</i>

1452
01:29:57,685 --> 01:30:01,897
<i>And shooting it on the day,
we had all these takes,</i>

1453
01:30:01,981 --> 01:30:03,941
<i>and I was honing it with Vin.</i>

1454
01:30:04,025 --> 01:30:07,028
<i>And ultimately, I told him, I said,
"Look, I'm not going to cover this.</i>

1455
01:30:07,153 --> 01:30:08,696
<i>"I'm not going to edit this.</i>

1456
01:30:08,779 --> 01:30:11,198
<i>"So we're going to have to get this
in one take."</i>

1457
01:30:11,741 --> 01:30:14,577
<i>I remember the scene started off,
two-and-a-half minutes,</i>

1458
01:30:14,660 --> 01:30:16,120
<i>and I just kept working
with Vin on it, and I said,</i>

1459
01:30:16,203 --> 01:30:19,749
<i>"Look, I am not going
to do coverage on this</i>

1460
01:30:19,874 --> 01:30:21,334
<i>"because there's a sincerity.</i>

1461
01:30:21,417 --> 01:30:24,086
<i>"There's a real time emotional connection</i>

1462
01:30:24,170 --> 01:30:26,756
<i>"we had to have
with Dom and Little Brian."</i>

1463
01:30:26,839 --> 01:30:28,633
<i>And Vin just was on his A game.</i>

1464
01:30:29,175 --> 01:30:33,554
<i>He ultimately got it down to what
we wanted to, and it was very sincere.</i>

1465
01:30:34,722 --> 01:30:37,058
<i>Ultimately, I ended up
cutting it out of the film,</i>

1466
01:30:37,141 --> 01:30:39,977
<i>because it's something
that I felt was so inherent,</i>

1467
01:30:40,061 --> 01:30:44,065
<i>it worked so well in the beginning
that we didn't need to do that.</i>

1468
01:30:44,857 --> 01:30:46,650
Can you just be quiet for one minute?

1469
01:30:47,068 --> 01:30:48,569
We made plans.

1470
01:30:50,154 --> 01:30:51,280
We had dreams.

1471
01:30:51,906 --> 01:30:54,075
So what's our next adventure after this?

1472
01:30:55,868 --> 01:31:01,499
<i>Here we're seeing the flashback
to the connection between Gisele and Han.</i>

1473
01:31:01,874 --> 01:31:03,709
<i>This is on</i> Fast 6.

1474
01:31:03,793 --> 01:31:07,004
<i>And we were always very conscious</i>

1475
01:31:07,380 --> 01:31:09,840
<i>that Gisele and Han,</i>

1476
01:31:09,924 --> 01:31:12,385
<i>every time we had
a chance with them on screen</i>

1477
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:15,679
<i>was going to get closer to Tokyo.</i>

1478
01:31:15,763 --> 01:31:17,473
<i>And so it was really fulfilling</i>

1479
01:31:17,556 --> 01:31:20,226
<i>to be able to actually come back
and revisit that moment.</i>

1480
01:31:20,851 --> 01:31:25,106
<i>Because when we shot</i> Fast 6,
<i>we definitely planted it there,</i>

1481
01:31:25,356 --> 01:31:27,691
<i>and it was going to launch Han into Tokyo.</i>

1482
01:31:28,025 --> 01:31:30,027
<i>But to be able to bring that back</i>

1483
01:31:30,152 --> 01:31:34,323
<i>into the Justice for Han,
it felt very appropriate.</i>

1484
01:31:35,783 --> 01:31:37,868
You can lose an asset at any time.

1485
01:31:39,662 --> 01:31:42,331
Bullet, knife, wire.

1486
01:31:43,124 --> 01:31:45,376
But I never thought I'd lose her...

1487
01:31:45,876 --> 01:31:51,799
<i>And Kurt here, the connection
between Mr. Nobody and Han through Gisele,</i>

1488
01:31:52,091 --> 01:31:54,885
<i>it was also another thread
that I hope one day</i>

1489
01:31:54,969 --> 01:32:00,349
<i>we'll be able to explore,
because it was so much fun</i>

1490
01:32:00,433 --> 01:32:01,434
<i>working on this thread.</i>

1491
01:32:02,059 --> 01:32:04,687
<i>Because when Gisele
was introduced to the fans,</i>

1492
01:32:04,770 --> 01:32:09,400
<i>it was actually</i> Fast 4, <i>with Braga,
and they were doing the tunnel runs.</i>

1493
01:32:09,942 --> 01:32:14,238
<i>And I've always felt like her connection
was actually through Mr. Nobody</i>

1494
01:32:14,697 --> 01:32:16,615
<i>when he was still with the CIA.</i>

1495
01:32:16,699 --> 01:32:19,493
<i>And so, I remember thinking that.</i>

1496
01:32:19,618 --> 01:32:23,330
<i>And again, Mr. Nobody was a character
that we had talked about before I left.</i>

1497
01:32:23,706 --> 01:32:25,416
<i>And then, Kurt Russell showed up.</i>

1498
01:32:26,208 --> 01:32:29,712
<i>And I remember meeting Kurt
when I wasn't doing the</i> Fast.

1499
01:32:29,795 --> 01:32:31,380
<i>We were actually
looking at another project.</i>

1500
01:32:31,714 --> 01:32:35,968
<i>And he ended up talking about Mr. Nobody
and his philosophy and his history.</i>

1501
01:32:36,343 --> 01:32:37,803
<i>And I was like, "This is so great."</i>

1502
01:32:37,887 --> 01:32:41,140
<i>And then, when I saw the films,
it wasn't in there at all.</i>

1503
01:32:41,432 --> 01:32:44,435
<i>And so it was great to be able
to come back and connect with Kurt again,</i>

1504
01:32:44,518 --> 01:32:48,314
<i>and then actually bring that to life
and know that there's a lot more to it.</i>

1505
01:32:49,565 --> 01:32:51,775
<i>I was so excited to go</i>

1506
01:32:52,109 --> 01:32:55,488
<i>I forgot my raincoat, so I went back in.</i>

1507
01:33:02,244 --> 01:33:04,288
<i>At first, I didn't see it.</i>

1508
01:33:05,080 --> 01:33:08,125
By the time I looked out the window...

1509
01:33:08,209 --> 01:33:11,795
<i>Elle is another really exciting character.</i>

1510
01:33:11,879 --> 01:33:15,174
<i>Anna was... We did a global search,</i>

1511
01:33:15,758 --> 01:33:20,846
<i>and when I saw the audition from Anna,
I knew that that was our Elle.</i>

1512
01:33:21,180 --> 01:33:26,101
<i>It's funny because doing these auditions,
there are always NDAs,</i>

1513
01:33:26,185 --> 01:33:28,187
<i>and we'll always take the names out,</i>

1514
01:33:28,562 --> 01:33:31,357
<i>because we don't want to have
any spoilers out in the world.</i>

1515
01:33:31,732 --> 01:33:37,196
<i>And Elle actually was
the code name for the character.</i>

1516
01:33:37,655 --> 01:33:43,244
<i>But when I saw the audition with Anna,
the way she said Elle was so...</i>

1517
01:33:43,661 --> 01:33:46,080
<i>Something about it felt so right</i>

1518
01:33:46,163 --> 01:33:49,333
<i>that I actually changed
the character's name and made it Elle.</i>

1519
01:33:49,416 --> 01:33:51,710
<i>So it was actually
supposed to be the letter "L",</i>

1520
01:33:52,253 --> 01:33:55,548
<i>but I just really loved the way
she delivered the character's name.</i>

1521
01:33:55,673 --> 01:33:59,176
<i>And so we ended up
changing her name to Elle.</i>

1522
01:33:59,760 --> 01:34:03,472
He knew I'd always be a target,
so he taught me how to survive.

1523
01:34:06,308 --> 01:34:08,060
We became a family.

1524
01:34:10,563 --> 01:34:13,524
<i>Again, this is something
in the whole Justice for Han.</i>

1525
01:34:13,899 --> 01:34:16,735
<i>There was a lot more worked out</i>

1526
01:34:17,236 --> 01:34:21,949
<i>that I hope, one day, we'll be able
to bring it to life for the fans.</i>

1527
01:34:22,032 --> 01:34:24,910
<i>So I'm really excited for right now.</i>

1528
01:34:24,994 --> 01:34:27,413
<i>I don't want to say anything.</i>

1529
01:34:27,496 --> 01:34:30,916
<i>I feel like
whatever is out there in</i> Fast 9

1530
01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:34,378
<i>is there for the fans
to talk about and to explore.</i>

1531
01:34:34,920 --> 01:34:40,884
<i>And I think when it's appropriate,
we'll be able to bring that story to life.</i>

1532
01:34:41,176 --> 01:34:45,014
<i>But I am excited for people
to see what...</i>

1533
01:34:45,097 --> 01:34:48,225
<i>Which dots they connect,
and what is the back story</i>

1534
01:34:48,309 --> 01:34:50,352
<i>that they can come up with and to share.</i>

1535
01:34:52,646 --> 01:34:55,399
But you got killed in a car crash, Han.

1536
01:34:57,192 --> 01:34:59,737
Mr. Nobody had a way
of making things look real.

1537
01:35:07,786 --> 01:35:12,791
<i>This is also one of those moments
where I was telling Kurt and Sung...</i>

1538
01:35:12,875 --> 01:35:19,048
<i>We ended up finding the perfect location,
and it took a while to light,</i>

1539
01:35:19,673 --> 01:35:20,924
<i>but there was not
going to be any coverage.</i>

1540
01:35:21,008 --> 01:35:24,303
<i>It was just going to be this moment
that it was going to be</i>

1541
01:35:24,386 --> 01:35:27,181
<i>Mr. Nobody and Han sharing that screen,</i>

1542
01:35:27,264 --> 01:35:31,644
<i>and it had to say everything
about the absence of Han in that world.</i>

1543
01:35:31,769 --> 01:35:33,562
- What's happening?
- It's some kind of hidden subroutine

1544
01:35:33,646 --> 01:35:34,688
the system follows.

1545
01:35:38,651 --> 01:35:40,694
<i>So coming up here, this scene,</i>

1546
01:35:40,778 --> 01:35:44,657
<i>this is one of those scenes
that I would say</i>

1547
01:35:44,740 --> 01:35:47,826
<i>making these movies or making anything,</i>

1548
01:35:48,243 --> 01:35:50,829
<i>it's the toughest thing to shoot,</i>

1549
01:35:50,913 --> 01:35:52,039
<i>because you have...</i>

1550
01:35:52,456 --> 01:35:56,794
<i>First of all, you have the whole cast,
you have all these moving parts,</i>

1551
01:35:56,877 --> 01:35:59,672
<i>you have all these soldiers with guns,</i>

1552
01:35:59,755 --> 01:36:02,466
<i>and you're trying to earn
this moment of intimacy</i>

1553
01:36:02,549 --> 01:36:04,635
<i>between two characters.</i>

1554
01:36:11,100 --> 01:36:12,184
Jakob.

1555
01:36:13,644 --> 01:36:14,770
I'm sorry, Mia.

1556
01:36:17,690 --> 01:36:21,193
<i>And this was really the second scene
we shot with John,</i>

1557
01:36:21,276 --> 01:36:22,945
<i>and it was interesting.</i>

1558
01:36:23,028 --> 01:36:25,572
<i>I could tell, in the morning,</i>

1559
01:36:25,906 --> 01:36:28,867
<i>Vin really wanted
to get into the meat of it.</i>

1560
01:36:29,410 --> 01:36:33,038
<i>And usually, when you shoot these scenes,
you shoot the wides,</i>

1561
01:36:33,122 --> 01:36:34,498
<i>and you go in.</i>

1562
01:36:35,165 --> 01:36:37,167
<i>And I was going on set,</i>

1563
01:36:37,251 --> 01:36:40,337
<i>and Vin came up to me and he said,
"What do you think?"</i>

1564
01:36:41,505 --> 01:36:43,090
<i>As soon as he said,
"What do you think?"</i>

1565
01:36:43,173 --> 01:36:47,177
<i>I knew what he was saying,
and I went to the crew, and I said,</i>

1566
01:36:47,302 --> 01:36:50,848
<i>"We're not going to cover it
the way we usually cover this.</i>

1567
01:36:51,515 --> 01:36:54,977
<i>"I want to get to the intimate moment
between these two brothers."</i>

1568
01:36:55,269 --> 01:36:58,605
<i>So we actually shot this
not in a conventional way.</i>

1569
01:36:58,897 --> 01:37:03,485
<i>It was done actually on this fluid master
between Jakob and Dom.</i>

1570
01:37:04,194 --> 01:37:07,614
<i>And then we just kept working on it
until we felt we got it.</i>

1571
01:37:08,031 --> 01:37:10,325
<i>And once we had it,
then I was able to go back</i>

1572
01:37:10,409 --> 01:37:12,536
<i>and do the coverage
and shoot the wide shot.</i>

1573
01:37:12,619 --> 01:37:16,832
<i>And it was...
It was the right way to approach this,</i>

1574
01:37:16,915 --> 01:37:20,502
<i>especially with John Cena,
this being his second scene.</i>

1575
01:37:20,586 --> 01:37:22,129
Good thing about Dad dying...

1576
01:37:23,422 --> 01:37:25,799
...was he didn't have to watch
what you became.

1577
01:37:26,717 --> 01:37:29,136
You never deserved the Toretto name.

1578
01:37:31,680 --> 01:37:33,724
<i>This is part of the fluid master here.</i>

1579
01:37:33,807 --> 01:37:36,810
<i>It was the first shot that I did
for the whole scene,</i>

1580
01:37:36,894 --> 01:37:39,021
<i>and he was amazing.</i>

1581
01:37:39,271 --> 01:37:40,856
<i>He was fearless.</i>

1582
01:37:40,939 --> 01:37:45,736
<i>And part of it was
he was going to reveal this big secret</i>

1583
01:37:45,819 --> 01:37:48,322
<i>that he's been holding
all these years</i>

1584
01:37:48,405 --> 01:37:52,743
<i>that was going to fundamentally change
everyone's point of view.</i>

1585
01:37:52,826 --> 01:37:55,537
<i>Dom, and Mia, and Letty,
everybody that was there.</i>

1586
01:37:55,913 --> 01:38:00,584
<i>And so, John, I could see him
on that day, he just used it.</i>

1587
01:38:00,667 --> 01:38:06,423
<i>He used even the awkwardness of going in</i>

1588
01:38:06,507 --> 01:38:07,925
<i>and shooting that close up first,</i>

1589
01:38:08,008 --> 01:38:10,761
<i>a shared close up
with Vin and the whole cast</i>

1590
01:38:10,844 --> 01:38:12,888
<i>with all these ex...</i>

1591
01:38:13,013 --> 01:38:15,182
<i>Everybody.</i>

1592
01:38:15,265 --> 01:38:18,268
<i>And to be able to fully engage</i>

1593
01:38:18,477 --> 01:38:21,814
<i>and not let any of the artificial elements
get to him.</i>

1594
01:38:22,731 --> 01:38:27,444
<i>That was an amazing...
It's not even a performance,</i>

1595
01:38:27,528 --> 01:38:31,698
<i>but it's an amazing feat
for John and also Vin,</i>

1596
01:38:31,782 --> 01:38:33,784
<i>and it really set the tone for the scene.</i>

1597
01:38:34,493 --> 01:38:38,914
<i>And it's just an example
of there's no right or wrong way</i>

1598
01:38:38,997 --> 01:38:41,208
<i>to make films,</i>

1599
01:38:41,291 --> 01:38:43,794
<i>and sometimes you just
have to go with your gut.</i>

1600
01:38:44,336 --> 01:38:49,132
<i>And, in this case,
it really made a huge difference.</i>

1601
01:39:08,068 --> 01:39:13,657
<i>It's funny, I think, a lot of times,
how you get characters out of binds,</i>

1602
01:39:13,740 --> 01:39:17,619
<i>and when you watch the movie,
it's like, "It's two seconds right here."</i>

1603
01:39:17,703 --> 01:39:19,913
<i>It's like, "Tej doing this knob."</i>

1604
01:39:20,539 --> 01:39:23,458
<i>But to be able to do that,
hopefully on multiple levels...</i>

1605
01:39:23,542 --> 01:39:26,503
<i>I mean, this thing took...
It took eight months</i>

1606
01:39:26,628 --> 01:39:30,007
<i>of writing ourselves
into a corner of saying,</i>

1607
01:39:30,090 --> 01:39:34,428
<i>"Okay. Well, now Jakob's got Elle,
and he's leaving,</i>

1608
01:39:34,511 --> 01:39:36,597
<i>"and now he's leaving
all the soldiers there</i>

1609
01:39:36,680 --> 01:39:39,850
<i>"to probably kill Dom and the family.
How do they get out?"</i>

1610
01:39:40,559 --> 01:39:42,728
<i>And so it's like,
in the writing process,</i>

1611
01:39:42,811 --> 01:39:43,937
<i>it's always great because you're like,</i>

1612
01:39:44,021 --> 01:39:46,565
<i>"Great. We basically...</i>

1613
01:39:46,648 --> 01:39:48,984
<i>"We give Jakob a true win.</i>

1614
01:39:50,277 --> 01:39:54,573
<i>"And now how are we going to be able
get Dom and the family out?"</i>

1615
01:39:54,656 --> 01:39:57,951
<i>And so, to be able to figure out
that magnet, I mean, it was...</i>

1616
01:39:58,035 --> 01:40:01,163
<i>It's funny, every time I watch it,
I start heating up</i>

1617
01:40:01,246 --> 01:40:04,958
<i>because I get drawn into the struggle</i>

1618
01:40:05,042 --> 01:40:07,044
<i>and the challenge
of how to get these characters out.</i>

1619
01:40:07,127 --> 01:40:09,922
<i>And it's just a great...
Like, once you get it,</i>

1620
01:40:10,005 --> 01:40:14,927
<i>it feels like you're able to solve
all the world's problems, you know.</i>

1621
01:40:15,010 --> 01:40:16,720
<i>But then, when people are
watching the movie,</i>

1622
01:40:16,845 --> 01:40:19,389
<i>it's like, it's two seconds,
boom, they're gone.</i>

1623
01:40:32,194 --> 01:40:38,033
<i>Here this is another sequence that,
for us is kind of a first time,</i>

1624
01:40:38,116 --> 01:40:42,412
<i>which is actually seeing
Dom be really defeated.</i>

1625
01:40:42,496 --> 01:40:46,500
<i>And obviously he's doing this
to try to save Letty and the family.</i>

1626
01:40:46,583 --> 01:40:48,961
<i>But it's always kind of gratifying</i>

1627
01:40:49,044 --> 01:40:55,467
<i>to find new beats for us
to explore, you know, and...</i>

1628
01:40:55,550 --> 01:40:59,137
<i>And I think we actually
never had anything like this</i>

1629
01:40:59,221 --> 01:41:03,684
<i>where, yes, it's a big fight scene
with Dom and all these guys,</i>

1630
01:41:03,767 --> 01:41:06,645
<i>but for him to really be doing it</i>

1631
01:41:06,728 --> 01:41:10,357
<i>to try to save his family,</i>

1632
01:41:10,440 --> 01:41:15,028
<i>even if it's ultimately about
giving up his own life,</i>

1633
01:41:15,112 --> 01:41:16,154
<i>it was great.</i>

1634
01:41:29,376 --> 01:41:31,294
No!

1635
01:41:33,505 --> 01:41:36,508
<i>And I thought, again,
if you watch it closely,</i>

1636
01:41:36,591 --> 01:41:42,556
<i>there's shades of Dom in this film
that we had never experienced.</i>

1637
01:41:43,098 --> 01:41:48,854
<i>And this sequence coming up, to me,
is another example of that, you know.</i>

1638
01:41:48,937 --> 01:41:53,859
<i>I think Vin really just brought it
and he was able to go places</i>

1639
01:41:53,942 --> 01:41:57,696
<i>that I think that even
if we tried in the other films,</i>

1640
01:41:57,779 --> 01:42:00,323
<i>it wouldn't have been right.
It had to be earned.</i>

1641
01:42:01,033 --> 01:42:02,451
See, cars like this are immortal.

1642
01:42:02,534 --> 01:42:05,370
<i>Here, you see, Vincent,
this is actually Vin's son.</i>

1643
01:42:05,454 --> 01:42:08,582
<i>And it was one of those
amazing moments</i>

1644
01:42:08,665 --> 01:42:13,378
<i>where I knew we were going to have
a young Dom Toretto,</i>

1645
01:42:13,462 --> 01:42:17,215
<i>and they actually started scouting for it.</i>

1646
01:42:17,841 --> 01:42:20,218
<i>And I'm looking through all the auditions</i>

1647
01:42:20,302 --> 01:42:23,889
<i>and at one point, you know,
it dawned on me that,</i>

1648
01:42:23,972 --> 01:42:29,561
<i>"Well, why don't we just
try Vin's son, " you know.</i>

1649
01:42:29,644 --> 01:42:34,107
<i>And it just became this perfect fit
and Vincent did such an amazing job.</i>

1650
01:42:38,487 --> 01:42:42,449
<i>And here again, this is a Dominic Toretto
that, you know, for me...</i>

1651
01:42:42,532 --> 01:42:45,702
<i>I have never gone to that place with Vin.</i>

1652
01:42:45,786 --> 01:42:50,165
<i>And I know for sure that
Vin's been always keeping that.</i>

1653
01:42:50,248 --> 01:42:53,001
<i>And this was one of those
earned moments for us,</i>

1654
01:42:53,085 --> 01:42:55,962
<i>and it was such a great time on set</i>

1655
01:42:56,046 --> 01:42:59,049
<i>to be able to earn that
and earn that together.</i>

1656
01:43:02,636 --> 01:43:04,763
No. You know I'm good for it.

1657
01:43:04,846 --> 01:43:07,682
<i>It's crazy. You see that door with Jack.</i>

1658
01:43:07,766 --> 01:43:13,563
<i>You know, we shot this on a sound stage,
but as soon as I walked on that little set</i>

1659
01:43:13,647 --> 01:43:16,566
<i>and I saw that door,
I was in the Toretto house,</i>

1660
01:43:16,691 --> 01:43:22,030
<i>I feel like, even as a viewer,
a fan of this franchise,</i>

1661
01:43:22,114 --> 01:43:24,449
<i>sometimes it's like these little cues</i>

1662
01:43:24,533 --> 01:43:27,452
<i>that really just brings out
all these feelings.</i>

1663
01:43:27,536 --> 01:43:31,790
<i>Seeing that door brought me back to
me being in film school</i>

1664
01:43:31,873 --> 01:43:33,667
<i>and watching
the first</i> Fast & Furious <i>film</i>

1665
01:43:33,750 --> 01:43:36,002
<i>at the AMC Santa Monica, you know.</i>

1666
01:43:36,086 --> 01:43:38,797
<i>And then shooting that in that house</i>

1667
01:43:38,880 --> 01:43:41,383
<i>on</i> Fast 4 <i>with Brian and Mia.</i>

1668
01:43:49,141 --> 01:43:50,308
I'm telling you, I got intermittent miss.

1669
01:43:50,433 --> 01:43:52,060
- Last two laps.
- On it!

1670
01:43:52,144 --> 01:43:53,687
Get those plug wires!

1671
01:43:55,480 --> 01:43:57,315
Jakob! Now.

1672
01:43:57,399 --> 01:43:59,776
<i>And here,
this is the moment of connection.</i>

1673
01:43:59,860 --> 01:44:03,905
<i>And I just thought, you know J.D. and Finn</i>

1674
01:44:03,989 --> 01:44:07,993
<i>and Vin, even though we shot it
in different environments,</i>

1675
01:44:08,076 --> 01:44:10,579
<i>it was such a great connection.</i>

1676
01:44:10,662 --> 01:44:16,710
<i>And a lot of it was this moment of,
for Jakob, of deciding</i>

1677
01:44:16,793 --> 01:44:19,337
<i>and that pressure of not knowing
what's right or wrong,</i>

1678
01:44:19,421 --> 01:44:24,426
<i>but ultimately doing it
and keeping his word to his dad.</i>

1679
01:44:24,509 --> 01:44:26,845
<i>And for Vin and Dom
to be able to process that...</i>

1680
01:44:26,928 --> 01:44:29,890
<i>Again, it's unchartered territory,
and I'm so kind of proud</i>

1681
01:44:29,973 --> 01:44:34,227
<i>that we're able to earn that
in this new chapter.</i>

1682
01:44:41,985 --> 01:44:44,112
No!

1683
01:44:49,868 --> 01:44:54,289
<i>It's interesting, you know, this sequence
was actually really a challenge</i>

1684
01:44:54,372 --> 01:44:56,583
<i>to put together,</i>

1685
01:44:56,666 --> 01:45:00,086
<i>because a lot of times you watch films</i>

1686
01:45:00,170 --> 01:45:02,839
<i>and there's underwater sequences
and it's great,</i>

1687
01:45:02,923 --> 01:45:05,634
<i>but it's really hard to capture that.</i>

1688
01:45:05,717 --> 01:45:10,013
<i>And so, we had to find this tank
and Michelle was just fearless.</i>

1689
01:45:10,096 --> 01:45:14,309
<i>She jumped in and it was great
and then Vin had to come,</i>

1690
01:45:14,392 --> 01:45:17,479
<i>and we had to shoot
all the underwater sequences,</i>

1691
01:45:17,562 --> 01:45:20,232
<i>and it was mind-bending and...</i>

1692
01:45:20,315 --> 01:45:24,778
<i>I was trying to change
the axis and everything.</i>

1693
01:45:24,861 --> 01:45:26,529
<i>But ultimately, it was great,</i>

1694
01:45:26,613 --> 01:45:30,242
<i>even though it was only, like,
maybe less than 10 seconds,</i>

1695
01:45:30,367 --> 01:45:31,493
<i>I felt like we did it right.</i>

1696
01:45:31,576 --> 01:45:33,954
<i>And both Vin and Michelle's
commitment to it</i>

1697
01:45:34,037 --> 01:45:36,081
<i>really just helped those moments.</i>

1698
01:45:37,082 --> 01:45:38,541
Do you hear me?

1699
01:45:41,336 --> 01:45:42,963
Is this who we are?

1700
01:45:47,968 --> 01:45:49,386
Yeah.

1701
01:45:49,469 --> 01:45:53,890
<i>And this is, in a way, an earned moment
between Letty and Dom.</i>

1702
01:45:53,974 --> 01:45:57,102
<i>We really only had various moments</i>

1703
01:45:57,185 --> 01:45:58,561
<i>in throughout the movie for them</i>

1704
01:45:58,645 --> 01:46:01,606
<i>to kind of get to work out
everything they've gone through.</i>

1705
01:46:01,690 --> 01:46:05,819
<i>But what I love is that it wasn't
about them working it through together,</i>

1706
01:46:05,902 --> 01:46:10,490
<i>it needed Letty
to go on this journey with Mia,</i>

1707
01:46:10,573 --> 01:46:15,662
<i>and then Dom to go through this journey
with Jakob for them to reconnect,</i>

1708
01:46:15,745 --> 01:46:18,206
<i>and to have to not only share that moment,</i>

1709
01:46:18,290 --> 01:46:22,210
<i>but to have a sense of...</i>

1710
01:46:22,294 --> 01:46:25,922
<i>At least a sense of
what their future is together.</i>

1711
01:46:26,131 --> 01:46:27,924
Not remotely.
We'd have to do it physically,

1712
01:46:28,008 --> 01:46:31,094
Fifty miles above ground
while the satellite is in orbit.

1713
01:46:31,594 --> 01:46:32,721
Orbit?

1714
01:46:33,013 --> 01:46:34,180
We need help.

1715
01:46:34,306 --> 01:46:36,099
Otherwise, we have no chance.

1716
01:46:37,309 --> 01:46:38,560
We do it ourselves.

1717
01:46:39,769 --> 01:46:42,147
It's where we've been
that got us this far.

1718
01:46:42,564 --> 01:46:44,441
No. No, no, no, no, no.

1719
01:46:44,899 --> 01:46:46,443
Do y'all not understand?

1720
01:46:47,193 --> 01:46:48,570
Clearly, y'all don't.

1721
01:46:48,695 --> 01:46:51,698
Because if you did,
you'd be pissing your pants

1722
01:46:51,781 --> 01:46:53,033
like a normal person.

1723
01:46:53,366 --> 01:46:54,367
Orbit.

1724
01:46:54,701 --> 01:46:55,952
That's outer space.

1725
01:46:56,453 --> 01:46:57,996
That's another level.

1726
01:46:58,204 --> 01:47:01,041
What we gonna do? Hijack a space shuttle?

1727
01:47:01,499 --> 01:47:03,043
Put rockets on our backs?

1728
01:47:04,169 --> 01:47:09,424
<i>This is where... We're about to
head into our third act action sequence.</i>

1729
01:47:09,507 --> 01:47:14,387
<i>And I know a lot of people
maybe, through the years,</i>

1730
01:47:14,471 --> 01:47:17,849
<i>joked about what's next.
Space? You know, and...</i>

1731
01:47:17,932 --> 01:47:21,644
<i>And that's something, internally,
we were always talking about.</i>

1732
01:47:22,270 --> 01:47:27,609
<i>And to be honest, I wasn't sure
if we were ever going to be able to do it.</i>

1733
01:47:27,692 --> 01:47:33,365
<i>And it became a very organic way
because when I finally committed</i>

1734
01:47:33,448 --> 01:47:37,869
<i>to this kind of existential threat
with Roman, Tej and Ramsey,</i>

1735
01:47:37,952 --> 01:47:39,829
<i>as I was working on it,
it felt like we needed</i>

1736
01:47:39,913 --> 01:47:42,123
<i>something that is not of this world.</i>

1737
01:47:42,207 --> 01:47:47,170
<i>And that's pun intended,
to really kind of pay off that thread.</i>

1738
01:47:47,253 --> 01:47:49,672
<i>And I remember even working on it,</i>

1739
01:47:49,756 --> 01:47:54,094
<i>and when we got there,
I called Vin up and I drove to his house</i>

1740
01:47:54,177 --> 01:47:57,097
<i>and I remember sitting down
and he looked at me and goes,</i>

1741
01:47:57,180 --> 01:47:58,640
<i>"So this is the one, right?"</i>

1742
01:47:58,723 --> 01:48:01,851
<i>I said, "I think so."
And we both kind of laughed,</i>

1743
01:48:01,976 --> 01:48:05,814
<i>because, you know, it was something
that we we always would sit there</i>

1744
01:48:05,897 --> 01:48:11,403
<i>and throw the craziest ideas
of what we can do and explore.</i>

1745
01:48:11,486 --> 01:48:16,449
<i>But I don't know if we ever thought like,
"Oh, yeah. Let's go to space on</i> 9."

1746
01:48:16,533 --> 01:48:21,913
<i>It was just something
that became very organic.</i>

1747
01:48:21,996 --> 01:48:25,792
<i>And even like, for me, personally,</i>

1748
01:48:25,875 --> 01:48:30,130
<i>it actually had
a much more profound effect</i>

1749
01:48:30,213 --> 01:48:34,384
<i>because, to me, I always get the sense
when I talked to Vin,</i>

1750
01:48:34,467 --> 01:48:36,719
<i>when we explore and we talk about stories</i>

1751
01:48:36,803 --> 01:48:41,724
<i>about the journeys of our characters
of</i> Fast and the Furious.

1752
01:48:41,850 --> 01:48:45,311
<i>I think we always start from a point
that we're never supposed to be here.</i>

1753
01:48:45,395 --> 01:48:49,190
<i>Like, I remember growing up
being a filmmaker was, you know...</i>

1754
01:48:49,274 --> 01:48:53,862
<i>When I would tell people,
it was like... It was not a possibility.</i>

1755
01:48:53,945 --> 01:48:57,449
<i>And I know that, you know,
having gotten to know Vin very well,</i>

1756
01:48:57,532 --> 01:49:00,118
<i>he had went through
the same thing, you know.</i>

1757
01:49:00,201 --> 01:49:02,871
<i>And Michelle, same thing, you know.</i>

1758
01:49:02,954 --> 01:49:07,459
<i>She was a Jersey girl
and, you know, Sung, all of us.</i>

1759
01:49:07,542 --> 01:49:12,714
<i>And somehow we all found our way
to each other.</i>

1760
01:49:12,797 --> 01:49:19,220
<i>Like with Vin it was about
making this indie film and finishing it.</i>

1761
01:49:19,304 --> 01:49:22,140
<i>And even though nobody believed in him,
he got into Sundance,</i>

1762
01:49:22,223 --> 01:49:25,560
<i>and that's where Spielberg saw him
and he got into</i> Saving Private Ryan.

1763
01:49:25,643 --> 01:49:27,187
<i>He has his own story.</i>

1764
01:49:27,270 --> 01:49:30,857
<i>My story is, nobody believed
in anything that I wanted to do.</i>

1765
01:49:30,940 --> 01:49:32,734
<i>I ultimately did a credit-card movie.</i>

1766
01:49:32,817 --> 01:49:34,694
<i>I met Sung and got into Sundance</i>

1767
01:49:34,777 --> 01:49:37,113
<i>and changed our lives
and gave me a career, you know.</i>

1768
01:49:37,238 --> 01:49:41,326
<i>And for Michelle, it was just
her exploration letter to</i> Girlfight,

1769
01:49:41,409 --> 01:49:45,872
<i>and she would share her stories with me
where the fact that the filmmaker Karyn,</i>

1770
01:49:45,955 --> 01:49:49,626
<i>she took a chance on someone new
as opposed to an established actor.</i>

1771
01:49:49,709 --> 01:49:52,837
<i>And somehow, we met each other and we...</i>

1772
01:49:52,921 --> 01:49:56,216
<i>We started making these films
that wasn't a given.</i>

1773
01:49:56,299 --> 01:49:59,469
<i>Like, I think when I joined,
the</i> Fast and the Furious

1774
01:49:59,552 --> 01:50:01,095
<i>was not</i> Fast and the Furious <i>today.</i>

1775
01:50:01,179 --> 01:50:06,768
<i>And for me to say, "For sure we're going
to have a sequel, " that was insane.</i>

1776
01:50:06,851 --> 01:50:08,937
<i>We had to earn it.
And then by earning it,</i>

1777
01:50:09,062 --> 01:50:13,775
<i>I got to work with Vin and Paul
and Jordana and Michelle and...</i>

1778
01:50:14,484 --> 01:50:16,819
<i>And we just kept challenging
each other, you know.</i>

1779
01:50:16,903 --> 01:50:18,988
<i>And that's the spirit
of</i> Fast and the Furious.

1780
01:50:19,072 --> 01:50:22,951
<i>And at the same time, there was no IP,</i>

1781
01:50:23,034 --> 01:50:24,786
<i>there was no comic book,
it's not based on anything.</i>

1782
01:50:24,869 --> 01:50:27,830
<i>It was whatever we wanted to do.</i>

1783
01:50:27,914 --> 01:50:30,667
<i>And I think it was very clear
for us from the beginning</i>

1784
01:50:30,750 --> 01:50:34,420
<i>that we were never going to just do
the same thing over and over.</i>

1785
01:50:34,504 --> 01:50:38,967
<i>This was not going to be James Bond,
where it's the same character</i>

1786
01:50:39,050 --> 01:50:42,804
<i>or characters that's just going to go
through different adventures.</i>

1787
01:50:42,887 --> 01:50:44,722
<i>We were going to honor these characters,</i>

1788
01:50:44,806 --> 01:50:47,058
<i>and as they grow, we were going to grow.</i>

1789
01:50:47,141 --> 01:50:49,519
<i>And now you're seeing us, you know...</i>

1790
01:50:49,602 --> 01:50:52,522
<i>These characters
have gone together, had kids.</i>

1791
01:50:52,605 --> 01:50:54,732
<i>And now we're doing
these big action movies</i>

1792
01:50:54,816 --> 01:50:58,403
<i>with our protagonists who actually have
kids at home, you know.</i>

1793
01:50:58,486 --> 01:51:00,947
<i>And I think that's what's
so unique about it.</i>

1794
01:51:01,030 --> 01:51:05,952
<i>And to be able to grow together
and not be alone.</i>

1795
01:51:06,578 --> 01:51:10,957
<i>You know, I can go all the way back to
meeting Tyrese on</i> Annapolis

1796
01:51:11,040 --> 01:51:13,251
<i>and getting to know each other.</i>

1797
01:51:14,335 --> 01:51:15,587
<i>But we were so different then.</i>

1798
01:51:15,670 --> 01:51:20,425
<i>And to be able to build that trust
where now I can put him and Chris</i>

1799
01:51:20,508 --> 01:51:23,720
<i>in a deep sea diving suit and say,</i>

1800
01:51:23,803 --> 01:51:26,014
<i>"You're going to attempt to go to space."</i>

1801
01:51:26,097 --> 01:51:29,559
<i>That's meaningful to me,
you know, and to us.</i>

1802
01:51:29,642 --> 01:51:31,603
<i>And so going to space,</i>

1803
01:51:31,686 --> 01:51:33,187
<i>it had all these profound meanings</i>

1804
01:51:33,271 --> 01:51:36,816
<i>that I wasn't even really conscious of
until we did it.</i>

1805
01:51:36,899 --> 01:51:40,278
I'm barely ready to go scuba diving
in this old-ass thing.

1806
01:51:40,361 --> 01:51:41,821
Don't listen to him. We ready!

1807
01:51:41,904 --> 01:51:43,239
- "We"?
- Yes, I said "we"!

1808
01:51:43,323 --> 01:51:44,866
I thought you was invincible.

1809
01:51:44,949 --> 01:51:47,619
Let's see how invincible
your Black ass is after this.

1810
01:51:47,702 --> 01:51:49,078
- Punch it!
- No! Tej!

1811
01:51:52,540 --> 01:51:55,335
Oh, my God! I don't want to die!

1812
01:51:55,418 --> 01:51:56,836
Ignition!

1813
01:52:41,172 --> 01:52:43,800
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

1814
01:52:46,427 --> 01:52:50,348
<i>When we were shooting this,
and the Roman and Tej sequence</i>

1815
01:52:50,431 --> 01:52:52,100
<i>that comes a little later
when they're talking about,</i>

1816
01:52:52,183 --> 01:52:53,976
<i>"No one's going to believe us, right?"</i>

1817
01:52:54,060 --> 01:52:55,269
<i>it actually had a lot more meaning.</i>

1818
01:52:56,270 --> 01:52:57,355
<i>And those were actually improvised.</i>

1819
01:52:57,438 --> 01:52:59,023
<i>And when they said it,</i>

1820
01:52:59,107 --> 01:53:01,484
<i>I really had this
emotional connection to it,</i>

1821
01:53:01,567 --> 01:53:05,321
<i>and I felt like, "Okay, great, "
because now that we're up here,</i>

1822
01:53:05,405 --> 01:53:08,032
<i>we're going to definitely...
That's going to be in the movie</i>

1823
01:53:08,116 --> 01:53:10,118
<i>because we're never supposed to be here.</i>

1824
01:53:10,201 --> 01:53:13,621
<i>We're not supposed
to actually be making</i> Fast 9,

1825
01:53:13,705 --> 01:53:18,668
<i>and this was never supposed to be
a franchise that was going to be</i>

1826
01:53:18,793 --> 01:53:22,130
<i>such a big part
of Universal's legacy, you know.</i>

1827
01:53:22,213 --> 01:53:23,047
<i>And so, yeah.</i>

1828
01:53:23,756 --> 01:53:29,429
<i>So, to be able to see this sequence
actually, it meant a lot more.</i>

1829
01:53:29,512 --> 01:53:32,432
<i>And, you know,
it is definitely a lot of fun.</i>

1830
01:53:32,515 --> 01:53:38,813
<i>I would say that, you know,
talking to the NASA rocket scientist...</i>

1831
01:53:39,480 --> 01:53:42,525
<i>At first, he just thought we were crazy.</i>

1832
01:53:42,608 --> 01:53:47,613
<i>But soon, I think he realized
we weren't trying to duplicate</i>

1833
01:53:47,697 --> 01:53:50,450
<i>our space to outer atmosphere.</i>

1834
01:53:50,533 --> 01:53:54,120
<i>We were actually really trying
to figure out a real way to start.</i>

1835
01:53:54,203 --> 01:53:56,789
<i>And so those conversations were awesome.</i>

1836
01:53:56,873 --> 01:53:57,957
<i>It was...</i>

1837
01:53:58,583 --> 01:54:03,087
<i>It started off with fuel,
the amount of fuel that we would need.</i>

1838
01:54:03,171 --> 01:54:05,131
<i>And it led us to the launching point</i>

1839
01:54:05,256 --> 01:54:08,176
<i>where I knew we couldn't
launch our characters from the ground,</i>

1840
01:54:08,259 --> 01:54:09,969
<i>it'd just take too much fuel.</i>

1841
01:54:10,052 --> 01:54:12,555
<i>So then we looked at the Virgin Galactic</i>

1842
01:54:12,638 --> 01:54:16,100
<i>and some of the
space shuttle tests they did.</i>

1843
01:54:16,184 --> 01:54:22,648
<i>And we realized if we launch the the craft
from higher altitude,</i>

1844
01:54:22,732 --> 01:54:25,276
<i>it would be a lot less fuel
and actually has been done.</i>

1845
01:54:25,359 --> 01:54:29,655
<i>So it was just about making sure
that we had characters</i>

1846
01:54:29,739 --> 01:54:32,325
<i>that was trained in that discipline.</i>

1847
01:54:32,408 --> 01:54:37,246
<i>So Earl and Sean and Twinkie
actually felt very natural</i>

1848
01:54:37,330 --> 01:54:41,042
<i>because these are characters
that are kind of savants, you know.</i>

1849
01:54:41,125 --> 01:54:43,753
<i>And as they lived in the universe,</i>

1850
01:54:43,836 --> 01:54:48,508
<i>and us not checking in with them
for the last, I don't know, 10 years,</i>

1851
01:54:48,591 --> 01:54:52,428
<i>that they would naturally be
very much into this idea</i>

1852
01:54:52,512 --> 01:54:54,972
<i>of pushing vehicles into new realms.</i>

1853
01:54:55,056 --> 01:54:57,266
<i>And so... Anyway, it is crazy.</i>

1854
01:54:57,350 --> 01:54:59,477
<i>I know that people have seen the trailer,</i>

1855
01:54:59,560 --> 01:55:03,022
<i>and they thought, "Oh, my God,
they're going to space."</i>

1856
01:55:03,105 --> 01:55:05,107
<i>But I could tell you that,</i>

1857
01:55:05,191 --> 01:55:08,861
<i>I think aside from the polymer
and some other things,</i>

1858
01:55:08,945 --> 01:55:11,280
<i>it is actually very sound
what we're doing.</i>

1859
01:55:11,364 --> 01:55:15,159
<i>And we've had many, many
really great conversations</i>

1860
01:55:15,243 --> 01:55:19,038
<i>with literally rocket scientists
to get all that going.</i>

1861
01:55:19,121 --> 01:55:22,166
<i>I think if anything,
the magnet tech is actually</i>

1862
01:55:22,250 --> 01:55:24,752
<i>maybe a little more further out, you know?</i>

1863
01:55:24,836 --> 01:55:28,464
<i>And I just took the principle
of a lot of stuff that they're working on</i>

1864
01:55:28,548 --> 01:55:32,301
<i>in that technology,
and we just kind of build off of that.</i>

1865
01:55:32,385 --> 01:55:36,389
<i>And, yeah, I think a lot of times you see
the knobs being turned right there,</i>

1866
01:55:36,472 --> 01:55:38,391
<i>which is to repel or to attract.</i>

1867
01:55:38,474 --> 01:55:41,269
<i>But there are actually,
if you look at Ramsey's computer,</i>

1868
01:55:41,352 --> 01:55:44,730
<i>there are a lot more specific things
that they're doing with the tech.</i>

1869
01:55:44,814 --> 01:55:46,440
<i>And I shot it.</i>

1870
01:55:46,524 --> 01:55:48,484
<i>And actually, ultimately...</i>

1871
01:55:48,568 --> 01:55:53,114
<i>I just felt like it was going to be
more confusing in those cuts.</i>

1872
01:55:53,197 --> 01:55:54,782
<i>So the tech is there.</i>

1873
01:55:54,866 --> 01:55:56,826
<i>If you really look closely,
it's actually there.</i>

1874
01:55:56,909 --> 01:56:01,372
<i>We actually had footage,
but ultimately it just was not...</i>

1875
01:56:01,455 --> 01:56:03,499
<i>I just felt like it was
confusing people more,</i>

1876
01:56:03,583 --> 01:56:05,334
<i>so I just simplified it.</i>

1877
01:56:13,050 --> 01:56:15,761
<i>And here, we're seeing Francis Ngannou.</i>

1878
01:56:15,845 --> 01:56:18,681
<i>It was one of these nice perks
of doing these movies</i>

1879
01:56:18,764 --> 01:56:21,642
<i>because I just get incoming calls
from people.</i>

1880
01:56:21,726 --> 01:56:26,439
<i>One day it could be Cardi B,
it could be Bad Bunny,</i>

1881
01:56:26,522 --> 01:56:27,690
<i>or it could be Francis Ngannou.</i>

1882
01:56:27,773 --> 01:56:30,234
<i>You know, just people saying,
"Hey, we love the franchise.</i>

1883
01:56:30,318 --> 01:56:31,611
<i>"Can we be a part of it?"</i>

1884
01:56:31,694 --> 01:56:33,988
<i>And I thought, "Okay, cool. Let me see."</i>

1885
01:56:34,071 --> 01:56:36,324
<i>And I remember it was actually...</i>

1886
01:56:36,407 --> 01:56:41,162
<i>I was on my way to the set
and we were well into shooting.</i>

1887
01:56:41,245 --> 01:56:44,874
<i>And I was just inspired one morning.</i>

1888
01:56:44,957 --> 01:56:47,668
<i>I was listening to this Carpenters' song,</i>
Top of the World,

1889
01:56:47,752 --> 01:56:50,296
<i>and for some reason,
it was the structure of the music</i>

1890
01:56:50,379 --> 01:56:54,800
<i>that it was like a three-parter
that really inspired me.</i>

1891
01:56:54,884 --> 01:56:59,096
<i>And I started writing, and this whole
sequence was written in that car.</i>

1892
01:56:59,180 --> 01:57:02,725
<i>And so when we landed at the studio,
I called second unit</i>

1893
01:57:02,808 --> 01:57:05,186
<i>and they were actually
shooting in Tbilisi,</i>

1894
01:57:05,269 --> 01:57:07,855
<i>and I told them the shots
and I started sketching it out</i>

1895
01:57:07,939 --> 01:57:11,192
<i>and I would email it to them
and they ended up shooting it,</i>

1896
01:57:11,275 --> 01:57:13,486
<i>and that became the Ngannou sequence.</i>

1897
01:57:13,569 --> 01:57:16,530
<i>And it was all done when I was in the car,
and it's...</i>

1898
01:57:16,614 --> 01:57:20,117
<i>It's a testament to the team that I have.</i>

1899
01:57:20,201 --> 01:57:23,245
<i>We now have this shorthand
where certain sequences</i>

1900
01:57:23,329 --> 01:57:25,498
<i>we planned for months and months.</i>

1901
01:57:25,581 --> 01:57:28,334
<i>But then on the spur of the moment,
when I get inspired,</i>

1902
01:57:28,417 --> 01:57:33,756
<i>I can actually call them
and plan that over the phone,</i>

1903
01:57:33,839 --> 01:57:36,133
<i>and they could actually shoot it
and we can shoot</i>

1904
01:57:36,217 --> 01:57:39,303
<i>all the interior stuff in London
and get it all done.</i>

1905
01:57:40,262 --> 01:57:45,393
<i>So here what you just saw was actually
the improv sequence with Roman and Tej.</i>

1906
01:57:45,476 --> 01:57:47,478
<i>It is one of those things
that when I saw it,</i>

1907
01:57:47,561 --> 01:57:50,815
<i>I knew it had to be in the film
because it was never scripted.</i>

1908
01:57:50,898 --> 01:57:55,194
<i>But it was a sentiment of
"we're never supposed to be here."</i>

1909
01:57:55,277 --> 01:58:00,491
<i>And I know it's done in a fun way,
but I just love the delivery that Tyrese</i>

1910
01:58:00,574 --> 01:58:03,536
<i>and, both, Chris, in that moment, gave.</i>

1911
01:58:03,619 --> 01:58:07,373
<i>And it really kind of says it all
for all of us,</i>

1912
01:58:07,456 --> 01:58:10,960
<i>I think, you know,
behind the camera, in front of the camera.</i>

1913
01:58:11,043 --> 01:58:14,296
<i>And it really captured the essence
and the spirit of</i> Fast and the Furious.

1914
01:58:14,380 --> 01:58:19,593
<i>And so, it's one of those great things
that in film that I love</i>

1915
01:58:19,677 --> 01:58:23,014
<i>is that sometimes you can plan
and plan and plan.</i>

1916
01:58:23,097 --> 01:58:26,976
<i>If you do that enough, you get the
spontaneous moments on the day</i>

1917
01:58:27,059 --> 01:58:30,896
<i>that outshines all the planning.</i>

1918
01:58:30,980 --> 01:58:33,691
<i>That's what happens,
the magic of filmmaking.</i>

1919
01:58:39,822 --> 01:58:41,991
- Something you want to tell me, Otto?
- My bad.

1920
01:58:42,074 --> 01:58:44,368
Satellite uplink
is actually going splendid.

1921
01:58:44,869 --> 01:58:47,288
And, by the way,
I have a new business partner.

1922
01:58:47,371 --> 01:58:48,372
Maybe you know her.

1923
01:58:48,456 --> 01:58:50,750
Guess who's out of the box, Jakob.

1924
01:58:52,376 --> 01:58:54,170
But I did try to warn you.

1925
01:58:56,922 --> 01:58:58,758
You were never my competition.

1926
01:58:59,383 --> 01:59:01,844
- Otto, there's something you should know.
- Yeah, go on.

1927
01:59:03,179 --> 01:59:05,306
<i>So here, we have seen the intersection now</i>

1928
01:59:05,389 --> 01:59:08,934
<i>of this earned partnership
between Otto and Cipher</i>

1929
01:59:09,018 --> 01:59:12,480
<i>that was all done off screen.</i>

1930
01:59:12,563 --> 01:59:13,898
<i>And, again, it goes all the way back</i>

1931
01:59:13,981 --> 01:59:17,151
<i>to that Yoda,</i> Star Wars <i>scene
between them.</i>

1932
01:59:17,234 --> 01:59:19,403
<i>I was so excited after we shot that.</i>

1933
01:59:19,487 --> 01:59:22,448
<i>You know, soon as I knew
we had that scene in the can,</i>

1934
01:59:22,531 --> 01:59:26,243
<i>I felt like,
"Okay, this beat is going to work."</i>

1935
01:59:42,384 --> 01:59:48,432
<i>And again, these sequences
are so complicated to put together.</i>

1936
01:59:48,516 --> 01:59:52,520
<i>It takes months and months to plan
and then you location scout.</i>

1937
01:59:52,603 --> 01:59:55,856
<i>You have to scan the location,
and they have to previz it and previz it,</i>

1938
01:59:55,940 --> 01:59:57,650
<i>and then we have to go through stunts</i>

1939
01:59:57,733 --> 02:00:01,153
<i>to make sure that they can execute
everything that was planned.</i>

1940
02:00:01,237 --> 02:00:04,198
<i>And here, you know,
it looks like two cars...</i>

1941
02:00:04,281 --> 02:00:08,994
<i>That actually was two stunts done
at the same time, a cannon and a ramp.</i>

1942
02:00:13,916 --> 02:00:16,752
<i>And this is a combination of...</i>

1943
02:00:16,836 --> 02:00:19,004
<i>You're talking about,
at the end of the day,</i>

1944
02:00:19,088 --> 02:00:24,301
<i>crew in Tbilisi, in UK,
and in post, you have crew in India,</i>

1945
02:00:24,385 --> 02:00:26,220
<i>you know, UK, Montreal,</i>

1946
02:00:26,303 --> 02:00:30,224
<i>everywhere around the world
to make it all happen.</i>

1947
02:00:30,307 --> 02:00:36,564
<i>It was a connection of this amazing crew
of thousands across the world</i>

1948
02:00:36,647 --> 02:00:38,732
<i>for us to be able to bring this to life.</i>

1949
02:00:44,196 --> 02:00:47,074
<i>And this is one of the craziest moments
of hitting that.</i>

1950
02:00:47,158 --> 02:00:49,702
<i>And we actually did that practically.</i>

1951
02:00:50,953 --> 02:00:52,663
<i>It was done in pieces, of course,</i>

1952
02:00:52,746 --> 02:00:55,666
<i>but I was very proud
that we were able to capture</i>

1953
02:00:55,749 --> 02:00:58,460
<i>all that in camera, every beat of that.</i>

1954
02:01:05,426 --> 02:01:09,722
<i>And here there's a...
I'm sure people watching it</i>

1955
02:01:09,805 --> 02:01:12,224
<i>have questions about the magnet...</i>

1956
02:01:12,308 --> 02:01:15,477
<i>How is it that the Supra
is the only thing attached?</i>

1957
02:01:16,562 --> 02:01:18,063
<i>And it, actually...</i>

1958
02:01:18,147 --> 02:01:21,775
<i>If you see all those things,
those directional kind of magnetic force,</i>

1959
02:01:21,859 --> 02:01:25,821
<i>we had months and months
of meetings about it,</i>

1960
02:01:25,905 --> 02:01:28,490
<i>and I actually...</i>

1961
02:01:28,574 --> 02:01:32,286
<i>There is actually tech in there
with... that Mia does.</i>

1962
02:01:32,369 --> 02:01:36,040
<i>But I remember seeing an earlier cut
when I actually cut to her doing it,</i>

1963
02:01:36,123 --> 02:01:41,170
<i>it brought on like
it was just an overload of intel.</i>

1964
02:01:41,253 --> 02:01:45,925
<i>And so when I removed it,
it just felt like it all made sense.</i>

1965
02:01:46,008 --> 02:01:48,344
<i>But for people that are doing
a deeper dive,</i>

1966
02:01:48,427 --> 02:01:51,305
<i>I could tell you
that there is a logic to that</i>

1967
02:01:51,388 --> 02:01:54,266
<i>that we had spent months developing.</i>

1968
02:01:54,350 --> 02:01:56,810
<i>I mean, it's still there
if you really look at it,</i>

1969
02:01:56,894 --> 02:02:01,482
<i>but in the cut, it just made
more sense for it to be simple.</i>

1970
02:02:05,611 --> 02:02:10,741
<i>So here, you know, I have
Anna shooting this crazy Gatling gun.</i>

1971
02:02:10,824 --> 02:02:13,327
<i>I think she had a lot of fun
that day doing it.</i>

1972
02:02:13,410 --> 02:02:16,789
<i>But it was a combination of us
shooting interior in London</i>

1973
02:02:16,872 --> 02:02:20,251
<i>and then sending her to Tbilisi
to shoot that gun for real.</i>

1974
02:02:25,714 --> 02:02:29,635
<i>And a lot of people,
they ask me about this sequence.</i>

1975
02:02:29,718 --> 02:02:31,095
<i>And as you can see,</i>

1976
02:02:31,178 --> 02:02:34,223
<i>there's no way we can duplicate
that in the visual effects world.</i>

1977
02:02:34,306 --> 02:02:39,687
<i>So I was giving notes and I just
kept asking them to throw more cars</i>

1978
02:02:39,770 --> 02:02:41,814
<i>at, we call it the Armadillo.</i>

1979
02:02:41,897 --> 02:02:44,650
<i>That's something
that we built from ground up.</i>

1980
02:02:44,733 --> 02:02:48,946
<i>And so, my note for them was
always to keep throwing more cars at it.</i>

1981
02:02:49,029 --> 02:02:52,950
<i>So I was very happy
the way the sequence turned out.</i>

1982
02:02:53,867 --> 02:02:57,371
<i>You know, it was one of those things
where, like this,</i>

1983
02:02:57,454 --> 02:03:00,916
<i>you cannot duplicate that
in the visual effects world.</i>

1984
02:03:03,752 --> 02:03:06,255
Letty, drop back
and line up with the front tires.

1985
02:03:06,338 --> 02:03:07,881
- What?
<i>- If we can't slow it</i>

1986
02:03:07,965 --> 02:03:09,508
<i>and we can't punch through...</i>

1987
02:03:10,175 --> 02:03:13,095
<i>So, where we're coming up to,
is this pole,</i>

1988
02:03:13,178 --> 02:03:15,264
<i>and then this is,
actually this shot right here,</i>

1989
02:03:15,347 --> 02:03:17,057
<i>where the car hits the windshield,</i>

1990
02:03:17,141 --> 02:03:18,767
<i>that was one of the happy accidents.</i>

1991
02:03:18,851 --> 02:03:24,523
<i>We threw a camera on there,
and it just had this amazing moment</i>

1992
02:03:24,606 --> 02:03:26,984
<i>where it captures a car
hitting the windshield,</i>

1993
02:03:27,067 --> 02:03:30,070
<i>and I think it delayed us a little bit,</i>

1994
02:03:30,154 --> 02:03:32,323
<i>but it gave this really great coverage</i>

1995
02:03:32,406 --> 02:03:35,826
<i>that I ultimately was able
to kind of work into the movie.</i>

1996
02:03:35,909 --> 02:03:37,745
You read my mind.
Han, get in front of me.

1997
02:03:39,830 --> 02:03:44,001
<i>And the wire gag here,
it seems pretty simple.</i>

1998
02:03:44,084 --> 02:03:49,423
<i>I think, for anybody,
it's just five seconds of a moment.</i>

1999
02:03:49,506 --> 02:03:52,634
<i>But again, it took so much time.</i>

2000
02:03:53,927 --> 02:03:57,931
<i>We had cannons, poles
and it was all the amazing stunt team.</i>

2001
02:03:59,600 --> 02:04:02,436
<i>And usually, you do one of these,
it's a big deal.</i>

2002
02:04:03,062 --> 02:04:07,941
<i>But to do multiple vehicles like this,</i>

2003
02:04:08,025 --> 02:04:09,860
<i>it is a huge undertaking.</i>

2004
02:04:10,611 --> 02:04:14,365
<i>And again, I just give the crew
so much credit, you know, they...</i>

2005
02:04:14,448 --> 02:04:16,617
<i>There's never any hesitation.</i>

2006
02:04:16,700 --> 02:04:19,661
<i>Everybody was always in
to do something new,</i>

2007
02:04:19,787 --> 02:04:21,914
<i>even if it's just a small beat like that.</i>

2008
02:04:28,921 --> 02:04:33,300
<i>And so, for this beat of the flip,</i>

2009
02:04:33,384 --> 02:04:38,639
<i>we actually had to build
so many different rigs to do that</i>

2010
02:04:38,722 --> 02:04:42,935
<i>and one just for the head
of the Armadillo.</i>

2011
02:04:43,018 --> 02:04:46,188
<i>And actually, for a lot of this,
we had to capture in camera,</i>

2012
02:04:46,271 --> 02:04:48,065
<i>just for reference.</i>

2013
02:04:48,148 --> 02:04:49,650
<i>And it's something that...</i>

2014
02:04:49,817 --> 02:04:51,652
<i>It was so complicated
just because there was</i>

2015
02:04:51,735 --> 02:04:54,696
<i>three different lighting sequences
to try to get all that done.</i>

2016
02:04:54,780 --> 02:04:58,617
<i>But we were able to capture
a lot of the stuff practically,</i>

2017
02:04:58,700 --> 02:05:00,619
<i>even if it was used for reference.</i>

2018
02:05:00,702 --> 02:05:01,829
Satellite is in range.

2019
02:05:01,912 --> 02:05:03,831
Let's power up these magnets and fry it.

2020
02:05:04,248 --> 02:05:05,582
All right, take our time.

2021
02:05:11,880 --> 02:05:17,052
<i>I have to say, I think this coming up here
with Chris and Tyrese,</i>

2022
02:05:17,970 --> 02:05:21,348
<i>to put 'em in the most ridiculous outfits</i>

2023
02:05:21,432 --> 02:05:24,017
<i>and to be in this ridiculous vehicle</i>

2024
02:05:24,768 --> 02:05:26,979
<i>in this ridiculous situation,</i>

2025
02:05:27,062 --> 02:05:30,649
<i>and for them to really
kind of connect on an emotional level...</i>

2026
02:05:31,400 --> 02:05:34,736
<i>Oh, my goodness, it...
I'm so proud of them.</i>

2027
02:05:34,820 --> 02:05:37,865
<i>I would say, with everything
that I've done with them,</i>

2028
02:05:38,240 --> 02:05:40,742
<i>this is my most proud moment with them</i>

2029
02:05:40,826 --> 02:05:44,371
<i>because they're showing up,
they look like Minions.</i>

2030
02:05:44,496 --> 02:05:50,294
<i>I have 'em hanging from the set
for hours and hours.</i>

2031
02:05:51,128 --> 02:05:55,132
<i>And then they had to deliver this
existential monologue</i>

2032
02:05:55,215 --> 02:05:58,844
<i>where both of their philosophies converge.</i>

2033
02:05:58,927 --> 02:06:02,931
<i>And that Tej was always driven
by math and science,</i>

2034
02:06:03,015 --> 02:06:06,185
<i>is basically saying that
it's an impossibility.</i>

2035
02:06:06,268 --> 02:06:07,728
<i>It's one in a million.</i>

2036
02:06:07,811 --> 02:06:11,857
<i>And then for Roman, who's basically,
the dreamer saying,</i>

2037
02:06:12,399 --> 02:06:15,694
<i>"Well, if it's one in a million,
let's go for it.</i>

2038
02:06:15,777 --> 02:06:17,905
<i>"Because we were never
supposed to be here."</i>

2039
02:06:17,988 --> 02:06:21,533
<i>And it says a lot about us
as a franchise,</i>

2040
02:06:21,617 --> 02:06:26,371
<i>and us as a family
in front and behind the camera.</i>

2041
02:06:27,039 --> 02:06:30,459
<i>And you can hear it
in Tyrese's performance.</i>

2042
02:06:30,626 --> 02:06:32,753
<i>It really captured that.</i>

2043
02:06:32,836 --> 02:06:39,092
<i>And I remember thinking about rewriting it
just as an exercise.</i>

2044
02:06:39,801 --> 02:06:44,640
<i>And then I thought, "No, it doesn't matter
whatever I write or rewrite."</i>

2045
02:06:45,140 --> 02:06:49,394
<i>Whatever was captured in that moment
between Tyrese and Chris</i>

2046
02:06:49,478 --> 02:06:51,897
<i>really says it all for us.</i>

2047
02:06:51,980 --> 02:06:55,692
<i>And for us to be
doing this crazy action sequence</i>

2048
02:06:55,776 --> 02:06:59,613
<i>and then getting into that
emotional moment for all of us,</i>

2049
02:07:00,030 --> 02:07:02,866
<i>to me, that's like
the secret weapon a lot of times</i>

2050
02:07:02,950 --> 02:07:05,953
<i>to be able to surprise people.</i>

2051
02:07:06,203 --> 02:07:08,789
<i>And I think people, lot of times,
think the surprise is</i>

2052
02:07:08,872 --> 02:07:11,333
<i>in the craziness in the action,</i>

2053
02:07:11,416 --> 02:07:13,710
<i>but for me, it's always
the emotional moments</i>

2054
02:07:13,794 --> 02:07:16,421
<i>that we're able to capture.</i>

2055
02:07:18,173 --> 02:07:19,383
We did it!

2056
02:07:19,550 --> 02:07:20,551
Let's go.

2057
02:07:20,634 --> 02:07:21,885
Yes!

2058
02:07:22,553 --> 02:07:23,595
Shit.

2059
02:07:23,679 --> 02:07:25,138
Not bad, man.

2060
02:07:25,514 --> 02:07:26,557
Not bad at all.

2061
02:07:27,849 --> 02:07:32,646
<i>We're about to hit the sequence here
where, for the first time,</i>

2062
02:07:32,854 --> 02:07:37,567
<i>I ended up taking out
this huge action beat.</i>

2063
02:07:38,277 --> 02:07:40,988
<i>And this is not in that cut,</i>

2064
02:07:41,488 --> 02:07:43,699
<i>but I love it in the extended cut</i>

2065
02:07:43,782 --> 02:07:47,661
<i>because it took us months
and we shot this practically,</i>

2066
02:07:47,786 --> 02:07:51,373
<i>we went through simulations,
went through all these things.</i>

2067
02:07:51,456 --> 02:07:55,043
<i>And it's a combination of cars
going through buildings</i>

2068
02:07:55,127 --> 02:07:58,672
<i>and CG simulations
of a crumbling building and stuff,</i>

2069
02:07:58,755 --> 02:08:00,882
<i>and I still love it.</i>

2070
02:08:01,466 --> 02:08:05,304
<i>But ultimately, I just felt like
it wasn't contributing</i>

2071
02:08:05,387 --> 02:08:07,306
<i>to the emotional connection</i>

2072
02:08:07,389 --> 02:08:10,642
<i>which is this next beat
of Dom and Cipher.</i>

2073
02:08:11,184 --> 02:08:12,853
<i>And I took it out,</i>

2074
02:08:13,437 --> 02:08:14,646
<i>but I still am really,</i>

2075
02:08:14,730 --> 02:08:17,316
<i>I have to say, even though I felt like
it was the right choice,</i>

2076
02:08:17,816 --> 02:08:18,817
<i>I was bummed.</i>

2077
02:08:18,900 --> 02:08:20,736
<i>But I think as a filmmaker,</i>

2078
02:08:20,819 --> 02:08:26,283
<i>it gives me a lot of peace to know
that we have this extended cut.</i>

2079
02:08:26,366 --> 02:08:28,952
<i>It was always, I think, in conception.</i>

2080
02:08:30,037 --> 02:08:32,372
<i>It needed to be in there,
but I think, you know, ultimately,</i>

2081
02:08:32,456 --> 02:08:34,124
<i>we just had so much.</i>

2082
02:08:34,207 --> 02:08:36,251
<i>I felt like the right thing
was to take it out.</i>

2083
02:08:46,553 --> 02:08:47,596
<i>And then also just...</i>

2084
02:08:47,679 --> 02:08:49,681
<i>Again, you see that beat of Dom
running through,</i>

2085
02:08:49,765 --> 02:08:52,559
<i>that is actually one of the hardest sets.</i>

2086
02:08:52,642 --> 02:08:54,686
<i>It took us weeks to build.</i>

2087
02:08:54,770 --> 02:08:59,524
<i>It was on this 360 rotating set
just for those couple of seconds.</i>

2088
02:08:59,816 --> 02:09:01,943
<i>And that's what's so, to me...</i>

2089
02:09:02,027 --> 02:09:05,155
<i>I'm still blown away
that we're able to do that.</i>

2090
02:09:05,280 --> 02:09:08,158
<i>And the amount of care
that we can do.</i>

2091
02:09:08,533 --> 02:09:11,244
<i>This is still something
that I wake up every morning,</i>

2092
02:09:11,328 --> 02:09:14,206
<i>and I'm so happy and excited</i>

2093
02:09:15,248 --> 02:09:18,668
<i>to be part of, you know,
the tent pole cinema.</i>

2094
02:09:21,421 --> 02:09:23,799
<i>You just can't do this
anywhere else in the world.</i>

2095
02:09:25,967 --> 02:09:28,970
<i>You know, to be able to wreck
over 200 cars,</i>

2096
02:09:29,054 --> 02:09:30,931
<i>to come up with crazy ideas,</i>

2097
02:09:31,014 --> 02:09:35,060
<i>and then have this amazing crew
bring it to life.</i>

2098
02:09:36,728 --> 02:09:39,272
<i>And to be able to use
every tool available.</i>

2099
02:09:40,315 --> 02:09:44,319
<i>To even do this, you know,
right here, with the jump.</i>

2100
02:09:44,903 --> 02:09:47,864
<i>To be able to start practically
and then go all the way,</i>

2101
02:09:47,948 --> 02:09:50,617
<i>using every tool to tell the story.</i>

2102
02:09:58,333 --> 02:10:00,752
<i>So coming up here with Cipher,</i>

2103
02:10:01,586 --> 02:10:03,755
<i>this is probably
the beginning of something</i>

2104
02:10:03,839 --> 02:10:07,551
<i>that I'm really excited to explore
with both Vin and Charlize.</i>

2105
02:10:08,885 --> 02:10:10,011
<i>And this is the...</i>

2106
02:10:10,554 --> 02:10:13,807
<i>I'll point this out,
it's one of those luxuries...</i>

2107
02:10:14,474 --> 02:10:18,019
<i>For the first time,
I allowed myself to think of it</i>

2108
02:10:18,103 --> 02:10:21,022
<i>as a final chapter
so that we can have scenes like this.</i>

2109
02:10:22,023 --> 02:10:24,484
<i>A lot of the credit goes to Vin
and the studio</i>

2110
02:10:24,568 --> 02:10:27,904
<i>because I have always wanted to only treat</i>

2111
02:10:28,405 --> 02:10:32,909
<i>every film, every chapter
as its own journey,</i>

2112
02:10:32,993 --> 02:10:35,162
<i>and I didn't wanna engage.</i>

2113
02:10:35,245 --> 02:10:37,038
<i>I wanna earn the next chapter,</i>

2114
02:10:37,581 --> 02:10:42,919
<i>but Vin talked me into thinking of it
as we've earned this final chapter.</i>

2115
02:10:43,003 --> 02:10:47,299
<i>And</i> Fast 9 <i>is really the first film
of the of the three.</i>

2116
02:10:47,382 --> 02:10:51,094
<i>So, it allowed me to be able
to explore things</i>

2117
02:10:51,178 --> 02:10:53,138
<i>and have scenes like that with Cipher,</i>

2118
02:10:53,221 --> 02:10:55,599
<i>which is suggesting
that there's more to come.</i>

2119
02:10:55,682 --> 02:10:56,975
This is the world I chose, Dom.

2120
02:10:58,894 --> 02:11:00,812
You know, Dad wasn't perfect.

2121
02:11:02,105 --> 02:11:04,983
<i>And then, of course, here, this exchange,</i>

2122
02:11:05,066 --> 02:11:08,028
<i>it harkens back to the heart and soul</i>

2123
02:11:08,111 --> 02:11:11,573
<i>of the franchise of the first</i>
Fast and the Furious.

2124
02:11:11,656 --> 02:11:13,325
<i>And even though,</i>

2125
02:11:13,408 --> 02:11:18,747
<i>Brian O'Conner's not physically
part of this film and journey,</i>

2126
02:11:19,206 --> 02:11:22,959
<i>it was very much an effort
to always be conscious</i>

2127
02:11:23,043 --> 02:11:26,796
<i>that he is part of this universe,
and any time we can, you know,</i>

2128
02:11:26,880 --> 02:11:31,259
<i>have moments that helps
the audience connect with him</i>

2129
02:11:31,343 --> 02:11:34,179
<i>and to know that
he's still in this universe,</i>

2130
02:11:34,262 --> 02:11:37,516
<i>it's really important.
And this was one of the great finds.</i>

2131
02:11:37,933 --> 02:11:40,810
<i>It was, again, very organic and earned,</i>

2132
02:11:40,894 --> 02:11:45,649
<i>but it's also very much part of the DNA
of where we all came from.</i>

2133
02:11:58,495 --> 02:12:01,790
<i>So we're about to get into
this kind of wrapping up</i>

2134
02:12:01,873 --> 02:12:04,501
<i>this crazy chapter of going into...</i>

2135
02:12:05,085 --> 02:12:08,213
<i>I know we're saying space.
Like here, it's space.</i>

2136
02:12:08,296 --> 02:12:11,925
<i>But I can officially tell you
that it was outer atmosphere.</i>

2137
02:12:12,008 --> 02:12:15,262
<i>It wasn't until they pushed that NOS
that took them into space,</i>

2138
02:12:15,345 --> 02:12:18,223
<i>which is way further,
and so they've been drifting for a while.</i>

2139
02:12:18,306 --> 02:12:22,227
<i>And, you know, the Minion joke
actually came from me</i>

2140
02:12:22,310 --> 02:12:25,772
<i>trying to figure out
if there's any way of them</i>

2141
02:12:26,231 --> 02:12:28,692
<i>coming up with a space suit with no time.</i>

2142
02:12:28,775 --> 02:12:30,402
<i>And I was talking to a rocket scientists</i>

2143
02:12:30,485 --> 02:12:33,196
<i>and it ultimately came into this idea
that, you know,</i>

2144
02:12:33,280 --> 02:12:37,742
<i>deep sea exploration diving suits
are very close to astronaut suits.</i>

2145
02:12:37,826 --> 02:12:42,080
<i>And so the idea that they blow up,
that's all kind of based on real science.</i>

2146
02:12:49,212 --> 02:12:51,631
<i>And here we are in the race track,</i>

2147
02:12:51,881 --> 02:12:54,718
<i>and this Bad Bunny track was amazing.</i>

2148
02:12:54,843 --> 02:12:56,970
<i>He actually sent us the track.</i>

2149
02:12:57,596 --> 02:13:00,932
<i>And I loved the song
and I didn't know where to put it.</i>

2150
02:13:01,057 --> 02:13:04,269
<i>And I think once we
tried it in the scene,</i>

2151
02:13:04,352 --> 02:13:06,813
<i>it really gave it so much more meaning.</i>

2152
02:13:07,188 --> 02:13:08,189
You did?

2153
02:13:08,815 --> 02:13:11,359
<i>And it was just... Again, I feel so lucky.</i>

2154
02:13:11,443 --> 02:13:13,486
<i>You know, when I first
joined the franchise,</i>

2155
02:13:13,570 --> 02:13:15,697
<i>people weren't sending us tracks to try.</i>

2156
02:13:15,780 --> 02:13:18,283
<i>And now we have all these amazing artists</i>

2157
02:13:18,450 --> 02:13:22,454
<i>that are just sharing with us
materials that they've created.</i>

2158
02:13:22,537 --> 02:13:26,207
<i>And when we're able to find
these amazing connections,</i>

2159
02:13:26,291 --> 02:13:28,293
<i>it just makes me realize
how far we've come,</i>

2160
02:13:28,376 --> 02:13:30,837
<i>and the fact that it
wasn't always like this</i>

2161
02:13:30,920 --> 02:13:33,632
<i>and it was something that
that we've earned together.</i>

2162
02:13:40,930 --> 02:13:45,310
<i>This moment here, I felt like
it was so important to have</i>

2163
02:13:45,393 --> 02:13:48,855
<i>because when we talk
about time travel,</i>

2164
02:13:48,938 --> 02:13:51,900
<i>the idea that we're able to explore
two timelines,</i>

2165
02:13:52,359 --> 02:13:57,739
<i>and finally, we're able to have
this kind of temporal and physical space</i>

2166
02:13:57,822 --> 02:13:59,366
<i>converge into one.</i>

2167
02:14:00,075 --> 02:14:02,035
<i>I was so excited to have this.</i>

2168
02:14:02,869 --> 02:14:06,498
<i>But it was also able to wrap
this chapter up completely</i>

2169
02:14:06,581 --> 02:14:10,752
<i>in a way that it suggests a lot more</i>

2170
02:14:11,169 --> 02:14:13,254
<i>that that's happened, obviously,</i>

2171
02:14:13,338 --> 02:14:15,757
<i>but at the same time, for</i> Fast 9,

2172
02:14:15,840 --> 02:14:18,885
<i>this connection,
it was so important to me,</i>

2173
02:14:18,968 --> 02:14:21,346
<i>and I'm so glad we're able to achieve it.</i>

2174
02:14:28,812 --> 02:14:32,899
<i>And so, the Toretto house,
under construction,</i>

2175
02:14:33,566 --> 02:14:37,946
<i>that was something that I also wanted
to earn our way to,</i>

2176
02:14:38,029 --> 02:14:41,700
<i>even though they were living
in that farmhouse when we first find 'em,</i>

2177
02:14:41,783 --> 02:14:45,537
<i>I always knew our goal
was to earn our way back</i>

2178
02:14:45,620 --> 02:14:48,957
<i>to the Toretto house
and to be able to have our barbecue.</i>

2179
02:14:55,171 --> 02:14:58,049
<i>I'm sure when people saw the trailer,
they expected</i>

2180
02:14:58,133 --> 02:15:01,469
<i>Han to be with Sean
and Twinkie and Earl and I...</i>

2181
02:15:02,053 --> 02:15:05,223
<i>I love the fact that, for the first time
they see each other</i>

2182
02:15:05,306 --> 02:15:08,601
<i>is actually in this moment of the film,</i>

2183
02:15:08,685 --> 02:15:11,146
<i>that they actually
weren't connected at all,</i>

2184
02:15:11,271 --> 02:15:14,023
<i>and that they were able to
find their way to each other</i>

2185
02:15:14,149 --> 02:15:17,068
<i>and to kind of be introduced
to Elle, their new member.</i>

2186
02:15:19,738 --> 02:15:20,739
Just call me T.

2187
02:15:21,489 --> 02:15:23,700
<i>And, you know, Leo, Santos...</i>

2188
02:15:23,783 --> 02:15:27,454
<i>We actually... Is also something
that I really was excited to do</i>

2189
02:15:27,537 --> 02:15:32,083
<i>was to see how they met Dom
in that flashback sequence.</i>

2190
02:15:37,046 --> 02:15:38,923
<i>And it was awesome to get Don Omar.</i>

2191
02:15:39,549 --> 02:15:43,845
<i>In this present timeline, to be able
to get him and everybody together,</i>

2192
02:15:44,220 --> 02:15:46,055
<i>it just meant so much.</i>

2193
02:15:46,973 --> 02:15:48,391
<i>It has so much more value.</i>

2194
02:15:48,475 --> 02:15:51,478
<i>Again, I know I said this so many times
during this commentary,</i>

2195
02:15:51,936 --> 02:15:55,273
<i>but there's a lot of times
in writing and understanding</i>

2196
02:15:55,356 --> 02:15:57,400
<i>the magnitude of certain things,</i>

2197
02:15:57,859 --> 02:16:01,988
<i>but then there's a difference between that
and then showing up on the day</i>

2198
02:16:02,071 --> 02:16:05,533
<i>with all the actors,
with the whole cast.</i>

2199
02:16:05,617 --> 02:16:10,246
<i>And it really elevates it
to another emotional level</i>

2200
02:16:10,330 --> 02:16:13,249
<i>that I think on a cerebral sense,
writing it you understand,</i>

2201
02:16:13,333 --> 02:16:16,669
<i>but until you get there and you shoot it
and you're in that location</i>

2202
02:16:17,086 --> 02:16:20,089
<i>in the Toretto backyard,
you truly feel it.</i>

2203
02:16:24,219 --> 02:16:26,346
I think Daddy has a question for you.

2204
02:16:30,892 --> 02:16:32,769
You ready to say grace, kid?

2205
02:16:33,394 --> 02:16:35,188
But I don't know what to say.

2206
02:16:36,397 --> 02:16:37,607
Oh, it's easy.

2207
02:16:38,274 --> 02:16:43,530
<i>Here, obviously, little Brian,
you know, joining the barbecue,</i>

2208
02:16:43,613 --> 02:16:47,116
<i>the family barbecue, is significant
because it also suggests that</i>

2209
02:16:47,659 --> 02:16:51,704
<i>he's going to be
at many more barbecues.</i>

2210
02:16:53,665 --> 02:16:56,125
Little Brian's ready to say grace with us.

2211
02:16:57,001 --> 02:16:58,628
<i>I think that the empty chair...</i>

2212
02:16:58,711 --> 02:17:01,005
<i>And I remember sitting there
with the set decks</i>

2213
02:17:01,089 --> 02:17:04,425
<i>and trying to find the right color
to match for Brian.</i>

2214
02:17:08,972 --> 02:17:11,307
<i>And then at the same time, like,</i>

2215
02:17:12,684 --> 02:17:16,563
<i>having Brian show up at the barbecue
with his Skyline,</i>

2216
02:17:17,063 --> 02:17:19,440
<i>for anybody that's been
part of this franchise,</i>

2217
02:17:19,524 --> 02:17:22,819
<i>I just felt like
that was the right way to approach</i>

2218
02:17:22,902 --> 02:17:25,405
<i>his presence in this franchise,</i>

2219
02:17:25,488 --> 02:17:28,867
<i>but hopefully, doing in a respectful way.</i>

2220
02:17:37,458 --> 02:17:41,421
<i>Again, you know, I think
it was so gratifying to be back,</i>

2221
02:17:41,588 --> 02:17:45,258
<i>but I think more importantly,
is to be back for the right reasons.</i>

2222
02:17:45,341 --> 02:17:47,635
<i>And to be able to do this film</i>

2223
02:17:48,177 --> 02:17:53,516
<i>and to be inspired and to know that,
"Yes, this is chapter nine."</i>

2224
02:17:53,600 --> 02:17:58,396
<i>But we still have all this new themes
and arcs and threads</i>

2225
02:17:58,479 --> 02:18:00,231
<i>to explore with our characters.</i>

2226
02:18:00,481 --> 02:18:02,901
<i>And to do that, again,</i>

2227
02:18:03,234 --> 02:18:05,486
<i>I get the business
of making these movies</i>

2228
02:18:05,570 --> 02:18:09,365
<i>that when you're successful,
you have other opportunities,</i>

2229
02:18:09,449 --> 02:18:12,076
<i>but on a creative level
to know that we can do this,</i>

2230
02:18:12,160 --> 02:18:13,703
<i>but be able to have an environment</i>

2231
02:18:13,786 --> 02:18:17,498
<i>where we're still challenging each other
and trying new things,</i>

2232
02:18:17,874 --> 02:18:21,002
<i>that to me, is when it's most fulfilling.</i>

2233
02:18:26,799 --> 02:18:28,551
<i>And I think at the end of this,</i>

2234
02:18:28,801 --> 02:18:32,180
<i>it's interesting because
I knew we were gonna have a tag.</i>

2235
02:18:32,597 --> 02:18:35,808
<i>And I remember shooting</i> Fast 6,
<i>and I was leaving.</i>

2236
02:18:35,892 --> 02:18:39,771
<i>I knew I was leaving,
and I was talking to Jason Statham</i>

2237
02:18:39,854 --> 02:18:43,816
<i>for a long time
about joining our franchise.</i>

2238
02:18:44,400 --> 02:18:48,488
<i>And I remember in London,
I came up with the idea</i>

2239
02:18:48,571 --> 02:18:51,199
<i>that he was going to be Shaw</i>

2240
02:18:51,282 --> 02:18:55,286
<i>and that Shaw was going to be
the one that killed Han, and...</i>

2241
02:18:55,370 --> 02:18:59,374
<i>And I called him and he was awesome
and he came in and did the scene.</i>

2242
02:18:59,457 --> 02:19:01,960
<i>And then I finally
officially decided I was leaving.</i>

2243
02:19:02,043 --> 02:19:03,670
<i>I had a long talk with him.</i>

2244
02:19:04,253 --> 02:19:06,714
<i>His first reaction was,
"If you're leaving, I'm leaving.</i>

2245
02:19:06,798 --> 02:19:08,132
<i>"I'm not going to continue."</i>

2246
02:19:08,216 --> 02:19:10,426
<i>And I said, "No, no, no, no.
Please, you should."</i>

2247
02:19:10,510 --> 02:19:13,304
<i>I think there's still
a lot more story to be had,</i>

2248
02:19:13,388 --> 02:19:15,098
<i>and he obviously stayed.</i>

2249
02:19:15,181 --> 02:19:19,185
<i>But I always felt bad because he came
and did that scene for me.</i>

2250
02:19:19,644 --> 02:19:24,399
<i>So, it was great to be able
to come up with the idea for this,</i>

2251
02:19:24,941 --> 02:19:29,153
<i>and in many ways,
it's the continuation for us, you know,</i>

2252
02:19:29,278 --> 02:19:34,409
<i>and to be able to call him and say, "Hey,
can you come in here and do this tag?</i>

2253
02:19:34,784 --> 02:19:36,703
<i>"And this tag is not about me leaving.</i>

2254
02:19:36,786 --> 02:19:40,415
<i>"This tag is about connecting with Shaw</i>

2255
02:19:40,498 --> 02:19:43,001
<i>"and it's for us to make the promise</i>

2256
02:19:43,084 --> 02:19:46,796
<i>"that we're going to be able to, you know,
not only work together,</i>

2257
02:19:47,547 --> 02:19:51,634
<i>"but really dig into Shaw
the way we wanted to."</i>

2258
02:19:51,718 --> 02:19:54,178
<i>And so, it was a great call to make.</i>

2259
02:19:54,262 --> 02:19:56,139
<i>I didn't know what to expect.</i>

2260
02:19:56,222 --> 02:19:58,641
<i>And Jason was so excited,
and he was great.</i>

2261
02:19:58,725 --> 02:20:03,396
<i>And just... Again, it made it feel like
it was always meant to be, you know?</i>

2262
02:20:03,479 --> 02:20:06,441
<i>And so, on this day,
when we were shooting it,</i>

2263
02:20:06,524 --> 02:20:09,777
<i>it reminded me of shooting that tag on</i> 6.

2264
02:20:10,153 --> 02:20:15,366
<i>But instead of this feeling of leaving,
it was the opposite.</i>

2265
02:20:15,450 --> 02:20:17,535
<i>It was connecting, it was reconnecting,</i>

2266
02:20:17,618 --> 02:20:19,954
<i>and the excitement of what's to come.</i>

2267
02:20:20,329 --> 02:20:21,539
<i>So, it was a great way.</i>

2268
02:20:21,622 --> 02:20:24,459
<i>It was the last scene
that we shot in this movie.</i>

2269
02:20:24,584 --> 02:20:26,461
<i>And to see him and Han</i>

2270
02:20:26,544 --> 02:20:31,007
<i>and the promise of
fully doing justice for Han, right,</i>

2271
02:20:31,090 --> 02:20:32,633
<i>it was the best way to go out.</i>

2272
02:20:32,717 --> 02:20:36,012
<i>And so, I'm excited to be back.</i>

2273
02:20:36,095 --> 02:20:39,348
<i>And I had such a great time
reconnecting with everybody.</i>

2274
02:20:40,349 --> 02:20:43,644
<i>And I look forward
to concluding our saga</i>

2275
02:20:43,728 --> 02:20:46,731
<i>with all these great characters.</i>

2276
02:20:46,856 --> 02:20:50,735
<i>So, thank you, guys, for your time,
for sitting through this.</i>

2277
02:20:50,818 --> 02:20:56,866
<i>And I look forward to exploring
and finding the right next two films</i>

2278
02:20:56,949 --> 02:21:00,119
<i>to close out this saga
for</i> Fast and the Furious.