“That was my idea,“Fast Xdirector Louis Leterrier tells EW.
“That’s one of the things I came up with early on.”
“I’m like, ‘That man can be a badass but cannot be a bad guy.
Leo Abelo Perry and John Cena in ‘Fast X’.Peter Mountain/Universal
There’s no mean bone in his body,'” the director remembers.
In fact, it took a little convincing.
“I pitched him between two takes as I’m over there resetting the camera,” Leterrier says.
“I pitched him this thing and then he loved it.
And that literally changed his performance because he understood where he was going.
‘I’m going to give so much love so then the sacrifice really hurts.’
And it really does hurt.”
Fast Xis now playing in theaters.
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