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Vin Diesel gave a nod to Dwayne Johnson — higher often called The Rock — at Sunday's Golden Globes as he offered the award for Cinematic and Field Workplace Achievement. Earlier than he started studying the nominees, the Guardians of the Galaxy actor stopped and stated casually, "Hey Dwayne." Johnson smiled in return.
Diesel and Johnson harbored a feud for years, after costarring in a number of motion pictures within the Fast & Furious franchise. Diesel has performed Dominic ("Dom") Toretto, avenue racer and household man, for the reason that collection' first film, 2001's The Fast and the Furious. Jonson's character, Luke Hobbs, first appeared in Fast Five in 2011, as a federal agent initially out to seize Dom and his crew. They later crew up.
The offscreen feud turned public in August 2016, when Johnson shared a social media submit, which has since been deleted, that talked about that a few of his male costars had been unprofessional.
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"There's no different franchise that will get my blood boiling greater than this one," Johnson wrote, per PEOPLE. "My feminine costars are all the time superb and I really like'em. My male costars, nevertheless, are a special story. Some conduct themselves as get up males and true professionals, whereas others don't." He referred to as these costars "sweet a–es." When he later thanked a few of his male costars by title, Diesel wasn't amongst them.
Over the subsequent few years, varied stories blamed their points on unprofessional habits from Johnson or Diesel, relying on who was talking.
Diesel stated that he used "powerful love" with the previous WWE wrestler for the sake of their characters, "to help in getting that efficiency the place it wanted to be," in a June 2021 interview with Men's Health.
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Johnson confirmed the subsequent month that he wouldn’t return to the motion saga.
He additionally curtly responded to the "powerful love" remark: "One a part of me looks like there's no method I’d dignify any of that bull—- with a solution," Johnson informed Self-importance Honest for its November 2021 difficulty.
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Nonetheless, Johnson finally did return to the franchise along with his personal spinoff, Hobbs & Shaw, which got here out in 2019. By 2023, Hobbs appeared within the Fast X mid-credits scene, earlier than Johnson introduced that he’ll return for a brand new movie stated to be centered on Hobbs. That movie will supposedly function a continuation of Quick X and a bridge to Quick X: Half 2.
"Final summer season @vindiesel and I put all of the previous behind us. We’ll lead with brotherhood and resolve – and all the time deal with the franchise, characters & FANS that we love," he posted on social media.
It appeared to be true on Sunday night time.