The beef between Fast and Furious’s hulking megastars had simmered down – but now the Rock has hit the nitro again in a Vanity Fair interview
If you have ever sat through a Fast and Furious movie, you’ll know that the series revolves around two things: bald meatheads doing improbable things in fuel-inefficient cars, and family. Whenever there’s a break in the action, Vin Diesel will gather all the characters together and press the importance of family on to them like some sort of berserk Crossfit Peggy Mitchell. And, beyond that, the message was that, as the characters are family, so too were the actors.
But in 2016, in a now-deleted
Instagram post, the Rock put a
bomb under that notion. Angry with the on-set behaviour of an unnamed Fate of the Furious co-star (thought to be Vin Diesel), he cryptically ranted about the concepts of both candy-asses and chickenshits. In that moment we all learned that Father
Christmas was dead. The Fast and Furious family was really no family at all.