

Chanelle, are you too excited to talk 2 Fast 2 Furious? For me, that's always the Dom to my Brian, the Letty to my Mia, the Roman to my Tej, the Gisele to my Han, Chanelle Berlin Johnson. And as that icon once said, the most important thing in life will always be the people on this Zoom right here, right now. I'm Derek Lawrence, aka, the guy who went as Dominic Toretto for two straight Halloweens.
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Welcome back to EW's BINGE of The Fast Saga, full transcripts of which are available on EW.com. Doesn't matter if you record in person or over video chat, podcasting's podcasting. Everybody, keep your hands real, really clear, all right? I got a surprise for y'all this evening.Īsk any podcaster, any real podcaster.

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And then to see the movie come out, it was the first one of its kind that really just hit that emotional button that connected how we feel about our vehicles in life.Īll right, back up. This whole culture of just your car being your world, it's always been something I've been a part of. You can also subscribe to EW's YouTube page to catch all the video interviews, and stay tuned to EW.com for even more Fast coverage, including next week's episode with Lucas Black talking The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.Īnything you can think of. To listen, subscribe to EW's BINGE: The Fast Saga feed via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Justin looked me in my eye twice and said, ' Fast 9 is the best out of the entire franchise.' Listen, for him to say that, I can't wait to see it." "It would be like, 'Yo, this is my best album,' because you're trying to promote that album and you want it to sell. "Sometimes people just say cliche things - not with this movie - I'm saying in general," he explains.

Speaking of wild talk, when Ludacris wasn't pinching himself or recalling his 2 Fast experience, he served as the hype-man for the upcoming (and space-bound) F9. "The two top things that everyone in the world wants to do, be a movie star and a rockstar, and I'm actually living it out. "I'm the luckiest human being alive," he declares. Those opportunities all came as he operated under the assumption that "never in a million years" would Fast return to his life, Ludacris admits now having been brought back in 2011's Fast Five and starred in every installment since. I just got to do this s-.' And I did it, and the rest is f-ing history."Ģ Fast would be the launching pad for Ludacris, the actor, as he'd go on to star to Hustle & Flow, Crash, Fred Claus, and more. I don't have too much time to even think about being nervous about reading these lines. It's that crunch situation of, 'Am I going to get this part? I don't know. They only have one day so you've got to put it on tape now, and here's the sides and you've got to do it.' I'm like 15, 20 minutes from going on stage. I remember right before getting on stage, I was in my dressing room and someone told me, 'You have to try out for this part. "At the last minute they had to hurry up and fill this role. "I was on tour with Eminem and I got the call, because I believe Ja Rule was supposed to get this part and they couldn't come to an agreement or something like that," Ludacris tells hosts Derek Lawrence and Chanelle Berlin Johnson. And yet, when The Fast and the Furious alum Ja Rule missed out on joining Paul Walker and Tyrese for 2 Fast, director John Singleton called up the Atlanta area code. At the time Ludacris (real name Chris Bridges) was rising to the top of the music game thanks to his Grammy-nominated album Word of Mouf, but his only acting credit had been a cameo in Dr. Fittingly for his 2 Fast 2 Furious audition, Ludacris had to go too fast.įor the latest episode of EW's BINGE: The Fast Saga, the rapper-turned-actor reflected back on 2003's Vin Diesel-less sequel.
