Has Vin Diesel been acting like a huge douche on-set for the past year?
To me, Dwayne Johnson’s blind item came out of nowhere. But I’m starting to realize that it came out of nowhere because I tend to tune out gossip about the Fast & Furious franchise. It’s not a judgement on the franchise, really. I mean, I respect what they’re doing, they make a lot of money, they have a multi-racial/multi-ethnic cast and hey, why not? But I just don’t care about it. So I don’t pay attention to the gossip about the franchise. Which is how I missed the fact that Vin Diesel is probably a major douche? Or is The Rock a major douche? One of them is. Or possibly both. Following the “reveal” that The Rock’s “candy ass costar” blind item was about Vin Diesel, apparently the two men had a behind-closed-doors discussion and… nothing was resolved. And Vin left in a hurry, making a speech that included the words “Daddy’s gone.” Sure.
Vin Diesel got the hell out of Dodge … minutes after wrapping his final scene in “Fast 8” … and we’ve learned his feud with The Rock is NOT resolved. Production sources tell TMZ … Vin finished filming his scenes, with The Rock, no less, at 1 AM Wednesday and almost as soon as the director called cut Vin gathered everyone and said he was leaving. During his speech he said, “Daddy’s gone” … Vin thinks of himself as the father figure on set.
Our sources say earlier in the day, Vin confronted Rock over the disparaging comments he made about his male co-stars. Although Rock didn’t name names, we know he was referring to Vin. We’re told Vin went to Rock’s trailer and demanded to know why he was talking trash. The 2 spoke privately inside but we’re told they did not squash their beef. One source intimately familiar with the actors tells us it’s all about big egos.
As for Vin, he didn’t leave anyone high and dry. We’re told after shooting his last scene the studio cleared him to leave. As for The Rock … he shoots his last scene Thursday. The movie is a week away from being fully wrapped.
It’s interesting that TMZ notes that Vin “didn’t leave anyone high and dry,” because reportedly that’s been a problem in the past. The Hollywood Reporter claimed last year that Vin held up the production on Furious 7 all the time, and that Vin “proved extraordinarily difficult, questioning even small details on elaborate action sequences, often holding up the complex production.” THR said that Vin was the reason why director James Wan opted out of directing Furious 8. Page Six also noted some additional reports of Vin’s bad attitude, with a source claiming that during Furious 7, “Vin spent a whole day in his trailer one day. The next day, they waited four hours for him. He called a meeting [May 28] of studio execs to his trailer for two-and-a-half hours to say, ‘What the f— am I doing here?’” Other sources claim this is a consistent issue with Vin, that he’s constantly “acting like a diva.”
So… does that mean The Rock was completely justified in calling out Vin in a blind item? I don’t know. I have to think that for Dwayne to do that, it must have been pretty bad/frustrating.
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