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Tokyo Drift: Why Vin Diesel Didn’t Appear in the Fast & Furious Installment


Vin Diesel has played Dominic Toretto for over 20 years, but find out why he took a break and did not appear in Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift.
Between his tough physical look and signature deep voice, Vin Diesel has become one of the most prominent figures in Hollywood. Some people may recognize him from Saving Private Ryan, The Chronicles of Riddick, XXX, or even as a tough loving nanny in The Pacifier, but almost every one of his fans know him as the very serious and stubborn Dominic Toretto from the Fast & Furious franchise.

In 2001, street racing went from being an underground sport to something everyone wanted to talk about and even attempt. After seeing Diesel and Paul Walker on the big screen with their fast cars and even faster lifestyle, people were hooked. The series has produced 10 movies thus far that follow the main storyline, one spinoff movie, two short films, and a television series. It is pretty obvious that the franchise is doing well with no sign of stopping anytime soon. So ,the question is this: why did Diesel take some time away from the series in the very beginning? Dominic Toretto is nowhere to be found in 2 Fast 2 Furious, and he only appears for a couple seconds in the very last scene of Tokyo Drift. What was going on with one of the most important actors in the series?
Continue reading to find out why Diesel didn’t appear in the Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift installment of the franchise or its predecessor.

Different Opinions About 2 Fast 2 Furious
After the first Fast and Furious film was released, it was only natural for writers and producers to sit around enjoying their big success, but when cheerful conversations turned into ideas and plans for a second film, Diesel went against the grain. In an interview with #Legend, Diesel recalls being with the CEOs and owners of the franchise. While they were hyping up the film and saying they needed to make another one, Diesel said, “You can’t do this again. You can’t touch it. You have to leave it alone.” At the time, the actor wanted the single film to eventually be considered a classic, and a sequel would ruin that. Once he saw the script to the proposed second film, Diesel chose to walk away from the series because it did not follow the same storyline.

Basing a movie’s foundation on fast cars and deadly rivalries was unique, but Diesel was right to be hesitant about it being an overkill if done too much. Races, romance, and rivalries could only go so far and in so many different locations before audiences got tired of it. 2 Fast 2 Furious had double the budget of The Fast and the Furious, but there was not a significant increase in profit.
Vin Diesel’s Cameo in Tokyo Drift

When Chris Morgan was writing the script for Tokyo Drift, he admitted to UPROXX that he was thinking about Diesel’s character coming back, going overseas, and learning how to drift. Clearly, Morgan’s vision was shattered and rearranged. Instead, it focuses on a troubled high school student who, after being shipped off to live with his father in Japan, makes some unlikely friends and enemies in the foreign car scene. Diesel does reprise his role for a brief cameo in the very final scene, but that appearance came with a lot of negotiations.
During a Q&A with Moveable Fest, Tokyo Drift director Justin Lin talked about the lengthy conversation that likely saved the whole franchise. Lin had been told that Diesel was done with Fast & Furious, but he also felt like he needed to try to meet him halfway. After learning that Diesel was a huge Dungeons and Dragons fan, Lin knew his angle. Diesel likes mythology and histories of characters. In short, things need to happen for a reason. The actor needed to see that his character, Dominic Toretto, has a past as well as a future, so he and Lin sat down for several hours and discussed the importance of Toretto in the franchise. After some time talking and Universal Pictures’ agreement to sign over the rights of Diesel’s former character Riddick from The Chronicles of Riddick franchise, Diesel was on board to came back to the set.
Vin Diesel: Leading the Fast & Furious Franchise
The smartest people in the entertainment business know that an actor’s time on screen can come to an end at any point, so the best actors make sure to spend time behind the camera as well as in front of it. After making an appearance in Tokyo Drift, Vin Diesel decided to do just that with the Fast & Furious saga. He was a part of the production process for the following seven films to make sure that the storylines stayed true to the characters.
True fans will notice that Tokyo Drift was the last film that intensely focuses on racing; the rest of the series has become about completing missions and taking down certain individuals. Diesel’s character is often the lead man that brings everyone together for the sake of the family. In The Fate of the Furious, Dominic Toretto is given a son to add a sense of humanity to him, but the child’s role also elevates Dominic’s need to constantly protect those he loves. Fans are anxiously waiting to see how Gisele and Hobbs will come back into the storyline and what rivalries will progress.

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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