We get all kinds of things thrown at us literally moments before the camera rolls, so you have to be on your toes, and that is heavy pressure - although I think if you’re working with the right people, it’s no bump to your head if it doesn’t work. Yeah, there are a lot of alternate lines that come via Post-It note. Was making Spy a very improv-heavy experience? So yeah, I’d love to more comedies like that. It was such a revelation for me to do something of that nature, and working with Melissa and Paul … that’s high-caliber people to surround yourself with. If I spend the next ten years working for him, I’ll be a very happy man.
I had such a good time working with Paul Feig on Spy. Every so often, you’ll switch up the action movies with something more unexpected … are you looking to do more comedies, or more dramas? You’ve got Spy coming up soon, where you get to show off your comedic bona fides. Oh, I have another spectacular kill! The one in Expendables 2 when … oh God, what’s his name? The one where I punch him into a helicopter, and he gets churned up by the rotor blades. I suppose you’d have to consider the ones from Crank, wouldn’t you? They’re over the top in that movie. If I put that prompt to you, which ones comes to mind immediately?
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We did a feature called “The 23 Worst Ways to be Killed by Jason Statham,” spotlighting some of your most-over-the-top movie kills. Not on this movie, but on Expendables 3, I was driving a truck and the brakes failed, and I ended up at the bottom of the Black Sea.
Have you had any recent close calls when it comes to stunts? I always want to do 20 times more than what they’re allowing me to do!
They give us a firm hand in saying what we’re not allowed to do, and it’s based on insurance levels and perception of the danger. You know what? We don’t get a say in what stunts we can do and cannot do. I know that you do as many of your own stunts as you can, but on a production as big as Furious 7, were there certain stunts that they just wouldn’t let you do? So yeah, you’ve gotta fight Dwayne - he’s a big man! - and you’ve gotta fight Vin. Anything they do, they want to do it bigger and better than what everybody else does. When someone asks you to do a tiny piece at the end of one movie, you kind of think, “Well, it’s not going to be just that.” I had suspicions that it could turn into something bigger and better, and that was always our intention.Īnd was it implied from the beginning that you’d eventually have two epic fight scenes with Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel?Īny kind of fight sequence has to go off with a bang - that’s part of the m.o. Please, Jason! You’re not going to convince me that Furious 7 wasn’t part of the plan from the beginning. Apparently, they got a really good reaction, so they decided to pursue bringing me back and putting me in a proper role. You filmed your end-of-movie cameo for Fast & Furious 6 ages ago, so is it safe to say this is something that was long in the works?ĭoing the part-six piece was pretty much a test, because I think they use their fans as sort of a sounding board to see what they should and shouldn’t do when they’re making these movies. Recently, the rogueish Statham chatted up Vulture about how that Furious 6 cameo came about, what stunt almost ended his life, and why he bailed on the Transporter franchise that helped make him a star.
(Which for Jason Statham, it may very well be.) That tease implied a bigger role to come in Furious 7, and indeed, Statham takes center stage as the primary baddie in this sequel, though he’ll be seen later in the summer spoofing his action-hero persona in Paul Feig’s comedy Spy, where he stars opposite Melissa McCarthy. At the end of Fast & Furious 6, Jason Statham galvanized audiences with a surprise cameo where he killed off a fan-favorite character, growled a threat to Vin Diesel over the phone, and walked casually away from an exploding car like it was an everyday occurrence.
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