The Rock, Statham und Vin Diesel wollen nicht als schwach dargestellt werden. Darum gibt es klare Vorgaben, was sie einstecken dürfen, wie sie am Ende einer Auseinandersetzung gut dastehen:
LOS ANGELES—Vin Diesel didn’t want to look like a wimp.
The actor was in rehearsal for yet another fight in his seventh “Fast & Furious” movie when he started to sense his co-star and on-screen opponent, Jason Statham, was landing more blows than he was.
Mr. Diesel had an idea: Why not assign numerical values to every move—head butt, roundhouse kick, body slam—so he could calculate a total and determine if the two men were getting pummeled evenly?
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Throughout the series, fights are choreographed to ensure that none of the leads comes out looking like a loser, said Michael Fottrell, a producer on five of the movies.
Does vanity play a role in those decisions?
“No comment,” said Mr. Fottrell, before adding: “Of course it does!”
According to producers and crew members on the films, Mr. Statham, 51 years old, negotiated an agreement with the studio that limits how badly he can be beaten up on screen. Mr. Diesel, 52, has his younger sister, a producer on the films, police the number of punches he takes. And Mr. Johnson, 47, enlists producers, editors and fight coordinators to help make sure he always gives as good as he gets.
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No moment in the movies appears too small for actors to nitpick. In a scene in 2017’s “The Fate of the Furious” that required Mr. Johnson to be lying on the ground at Mr. Diesel’s feet, he insisted his character at least be sitting up, according to a postproduction crew member.
Mr. Diesel’s sister, Samantha Vincent, weighs in on rehearsals and edits, people familiar with the situation said. “He’s falling down right here,” she once observed during a fight rehearsal, according to one person on set. “Is he going to get his licks back in?”
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/fast-furious-stars-complicated-demandi-never-want-to-lose-a-fight-11564673490?shareToken=st9ec3223fe41646658729e34425676d84
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