Michael Caine confides in his friendship with Vin Diesel: “It’s my son!”

In his memoirs, the British actor also confides in his rival, Dwayne -The Rock -Johnson.

Four years ago, Diesel wine And Helen Mirren called loud and clear Michael Caineso thatHe joins the saga Fast & Furious In the skin of the Shaw family patriarch. He would have been the father of Deckard, Hattie and Owen, respectively embodied by Jason Statham, Vanessa Kirby and Luke Evans, and the husband of Mirren, arrived in the saga for n ° 8, in 2017.

At 92, the British actor did not realize their wish, but he confirms in his memories feeling very close to the star of the franchise, speaking of Vin Diesel as his son. The book You look back, you’ll trip over is filled with anecdotes on the busy career of Michael Caine, and he writes in particular:

“Wine is special. I like wine. We met for the first time at a dinner about thirty years ago. I simply praised him instinctively with a embrace and I announced to the whole room: ‘Here is my son!’“”

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Trying to explain their immediate link, he adds: “Sometimes you feel a connection. I immediately liked this guy, he has a big heart. It turned out that he was going through difficult moments at the time, perhaps that made you want to treat him gently, with love? In any case, we have become great friends since.”

If they did not collaborate on Fast & FuriousCaine and Diesel still made a film together, in 2015: The last witch hunter.

“My grandchildren, Taylor, Allegra and Miles, loved this film !, gets carried away Michael Caine. Wine speaks to the young generation. It’s a real star, and he has multiple talents. An excellent producer, who also writes scenarios and is deeply involved in the production of his films. “

Vin Diesel, Michael Caine and Elijah Wood in the last witch hunter (2015).

With his wife, Shakira, they are “Very close” De Diesel and his partner, Paloma Jimenez, insists Michael Caine:

“Whenever they are in town, we dine together. Or they come to us for a moment. Wine moves everywhere with this traveling troop of close people – a kind of mobile family, support structure. I think you probably need to be well surrounded today. It is certainly a change compared to my time.”

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This proximity between the two actors had already been mentioned by Vin Diesel. In 2015, the star of Riddick explained to Miami Herald ::

“I always liked Michael Caine. My grandmother was a big fan of him, and I was able to meet him perhaps 12 or 13 years ago. We became friends, and so if I was going to London, we died together, if we came here, we died together (…) We always wanted to do something together. When I was finally able to approach this project and that I called him Fast & Furious. So his first answer was: ‘I don’t even drive anymore! How you can ask me to do Fast & Furious ? ‘ (laughs)“”

Always in his memoirs, Michael Caine also evokes his relationship with the great rival of wine diesel, Dwayne Johnson. The interpreter of Luke Hobbs and that of Dom Toretto had a stormy relationship during the episodes of Fast & Furiouseven if today she seems to calm down: The Rock should return to the finish of Louis Leterrier.

“It’s another really great person, Writes Caine about Johnson, with whom he worked on the film Voyage to the center of Earth 2: the mysterious island, in 2012. He is someone thoughtful and warm. I love to speak with these guys, hear what they have done around the world. They wear the flame! “

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