{"id":308421,"date":"2025-11-26T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308421\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:07:07","slug":"vin-diesel-celebrates-dwayne-johnsons-the-smashing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308421\/","title":{"rendered":"Vin Diesel celebrates Dwayne Johnson’s The Smashing Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly a decade after an anonymous Fast & Furious star called Dwayne Johnson a \u201ccandy ass,<\/a>\u201d turning the e La Familia into a \u201ctwo Christmases\u201d household, Vin Diesel, who many believe to be the \u201ccandy ass\u201d sayer, has offered some unexpected praise of his former Fast co-star. In an Instagram post about The Smashing Machine<\/a>, Diesel takes a moment to \u201ccelebrate Dwayne.\u201d Despite the two having a complicated working relationship, Diesel had nothing but praise for Johnson in the post, writing, \u201cPeople don\u2019t understand what it takes to uphold a global perception every single day. I remember asking our global family who they\u2019d love to see me work with, and a woman named Jan left a comment saying her dream was for me to collaborate with Dwayne.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jan\u2019s suggestion, according to Diesel, led to \u201cone of the most dynamic pairings in cinema, two strong personalities who pushed each other and created something unforgettable.\u201d Those two strong personalities were so combative, apparently, that they had to be separated, leading to a couple of weird shots in<\/a> Fast 6<\/a> and Johnson\u2019s Fast spin-off, Hobbs & Shaw<\/a>. But, Dielsel continues, \u201cWhen he stepped into Hobbs, he did it with full commitment and left an indelible mark on Universal\u2019s character hall of fame.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diesel is old friends with Smashing Machine subject, Mark Kerr, \u201cone of the first friends\u201d he made in Los Angeles, and who trained Diesel for the first XXX movie. \u201cThis is a man who would often tell me about the kids he was teaching to wrestle, to fight, to take ownership of their lives usually for no money at all,\u201d he writes. \u201cMark Kerr is so deserving of this moment\u2026 and Dwayne really did it\u2026 He brought us back in time and shined doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is this the first step toward actually getting the final Fast & Furious movie made? Who knows. But for one glorious day in November, no one was a candy ass, and we all smelled what the Rock was cooking.<\/p>\n