Paul Walker's sudden death cast a heavy pall over the cast and crew of Furious 7, especially Vin Diesel, who seriously considered walking away from it all.
, Diesel revealed that he couldn’t leave his house for weeks after hearing of his friend and co-star’s death. “I got on a plane, and told the production I couldn’t shoot, just to cancel everything,” Diesel said. The idea of returning to the set to finish the movie gave him pause. “There was fear,” he recalled. “Could I finish playing Dom with such a broken heart?”
The vice chairman of NBC Universal tried to convince Diesel to complete the movie. In the end, it was ultimately Walker who got Diesel to return to set. “I thought what Paul would really want me to do was finish it. So that’s what I did.” Just because he’d returned to set didn’t mean that his grieving was over, however. The hardest part was yet to come.
“I went through three boxes of tissues, and I felt so bad. I felt so embarrassed. I had always been the kind of actor that other actors respect. I was just failing so hard.” When Diesel realized he couldn’t stop his nose and eyes from dripping, he had to walk off the set in order to “try to get all the fluids out.” He described that experience as “the toughest film I ever had to shoot.” There were still difficult scenes left for the actor to face, however.
Diesel still needed to finish the shots that included Walker’s character, Brian O’Conner. Luckily, Walker’s two brothers, Caleb and Cody, stepped in to act as body doubles for their brother. Another actor, John Brotherton, also stood in for the late actor. With the help of computer technology, spearheaded by Peter Jackson’s Weta Studio that is best known for creating’ Gollum, Walker’s face was imposed over the stand-in actors’ faces.
Tabloids often make up stories about behind-the-scenes drama happening on set in order to sell issues. The
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