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One previous family member who doesnt appear in F9 is Dwayne the Rock Johnson, who first showed up as Luke Hobbs in Fast Five (2011). Its a bit of a messy story, with vague tales of discord on the set and Johnson calling unnamed male costars candy asses. In the end, all parties chalked it up to family squabbles.
It was a tough character to embody, the Hobbs character, Diesel says. My approach at the time was a lot of tough love to assist in getting that performance where it needed to be. As a producer to say, Okay, were going to take Dwayne Johnson, whos associated with wrestling, and were going to force this cinematic world, audience members, to regard his character as someone that they dont knowHobbs hits you like a ton of bricks. Thats something that Im proud of, that aesthetic. That took a lot of work. We had to get there and sometimes, at that time, I could give a lot of tough love. Not Felliniesque, but I would do anything Id have to do in order to get performances in anything Im producing.