Tyrese has revealed that he’s by no means watched the primary Fast & Furious film which kicked off the billion-dollar franchise again in 2001.
The box-office film star not too long ago sat down for an interview with Big Boy’s Neighborhood the place he defined what was behind his resolution to by no means watch the inaugural movie within the first place.
“I’ve never seen part one to this day,” Tyrese admitted. “And that’s no disrespect. So what happened was, and I’ma tell you why, because John Singleton gave me that advice. So fast forward, Baby Boy happens, Vin [Diesel] and the studio at the time got heavy in negotiations and they could not make a deal for Vin and the director to come back and do part two.
“So then that’s when the opportunity for me to slide in and do 2 Fast 2 Furious opposite Paul Walker presented itself. And I’m not gon’ mention what they were negotiating, but it was a real number.”
He continued: “[Vin] went from that number trying to get to that number and the studio and him just fell apart and then the opportunity for me to slide into that happened.”
After Big Boy requested if Vin Diesel was in 2 Fast 2 Furious, he responded by saying: “No sir,” earlier than including: “It wouldn’t be no franchise if they didn’t start it.”
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Tyrese has starred as Roman Pearce in seven of the franchise’s 10 movies: 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Fast Five (2011), Fast & Furious 6 (2013), Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), F9: The Fast Saga (2021), and Fast X (2023), the latter of which arrived in theaters on May 19.
Recently, Tyrese opened up in regards to the time he the late Paul Walker had been unknowingly sleeping with the identical girl whereas on the set of 2 Fast 2 Furious.
The singer/actor divulged all the small print in an April interview with The Morning Hustle, explaining they had been each concerned with Eva Mendez’s stunt double Cindy Leon.
“She’s a beautiful girl,” Tyrese mentioned, “and me and Paul were smashing the same girl on the set of 2 Fast 2 Furious and didn’t even know it … It was Eva Mendez’s stunt double, and we were both just complimenting this girl every day and for whatever reason we just didn’t say we were both smashing the same girl.”
He continued: “And then we told each other. He was like, ‘Yeah?’ I was like, ‘Yeah…’ and then her goofy ass just recently did an interview letting the world know, but it gets even worse with her.”
Tyrese was then requested by the host who stopped sleeping with Leon first, to which the actor replied: “I don’t think we stopped.”
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Meanwhile, the singer-songwriter is presently embroiled in some authorized drama after being ordered to pay his ex-wife practically $650,000 by a choose he publicly known as out for being “racist.”
Tyrese attended a courtroom listening to in his custody battle along with his ex, Samantha Lee, in Atlanta final month the place he was held in contempt of courtroom for failing to pay the $10,000 a month in youngster assist he was ordered to cough up final August.
According to TMZ, Tyrese argued on the stand that the month-to-month quantity is extreme as Lee allegedly earns a considerable earnings on her personal.
The Alter Ego singer’s protest fell flat, although, as he was finally ordered by Judge Kevin Farmer to fork out $237,944 in again youngster assist funds to his ex-wife — with whom he shares a four-year-old daughter named Soraya — and $399,000 for Samantha’s legal professional charges.
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