Fast and Furious X (ten) has been released and trending in movie industry as we all know the history of film as an artistic medium chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century.
Fast X is currently tearing up the box office to the tune of an estimated $66 million domestic gross this weekend, and fans of the long-running high-octane franchise are discovering the truth about who lives and who dies. When it came to the death of one character, it seems that director Louis Leterrier’s decision took one actor a little time to come to terms with.
The Fast & Furious movie hit a major stumbling block when Justin Lin left the production near the start of filming. Leterrier joined the production and immediately took the helm and rewrote the entire ending of the movie in just a couple of weeks. One of the things he added was the death of John Cena’s Jakob, and as he revealed toEntertainment Weekly, it was a decision that was not instantly a hit with the wrestler-turned-actor. He explained:
"That was my idea. That's one of the things I came up with early on."I'm like, 'That man can be a badass but cannot be a bad guy. There's no mean bone in his body. That's why my interpretation of his character, as you saw, he's quite different [from F9]. He is my interpretation of Uncle Jakob — he learns to be an uncle and care for someone when he felt he was never loved, and now he loves someone. He felt the love when Little B hugs him and says, 'I love you, Uncle Jakob,' when Mia tells him, 'Protect him with your life,' all that stuff.I said to John [Cena], 'You will have to sacrifice yourself, to give the ultimate gift to your brother to save his son,' and it upset him. I pitched him between two takes as I'm over there resetting the camera. I pitched him this thing and then he loved it. And that literally changed his performance because he understood where he was going. 'I'm going to give so much love so then the sacrifice really hurts.' And it really does hurt.“
