Vin Diesel came perilously close to missing out on the massively successful film franchise that made him a household name.The 53-year-old actor revealed that he nearly backed out of the first Fast & Furious film during an appearance on Entertainment Weekly's Binge podcast, released Friday.He admitted he had second thoughts about the heist film after reading an early draft of the screenplay that was lacking.
Close call: Vin Diesel, 53, shared on EW's Binge podcast that he almost quit 2001's The Fast And The Furious after reading an early draft of the script that wasn't up to his standards; seen in 2019Diesel wasn't even the studio's first choice for 2001's The Fast And The Furious, as it originally wanted Justified's Timothy Olyphant to play.
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