Mike Cidoni
iKnowRochester
06/27/01
Hollywood - He is one of Hollywood's hottest, and biggest, rising stars. You've seen Vin Diesel in such films as 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'Pitch Black.' Now, see him in action.
Hot guys, bodacious babes, fast cars. But star Vin Diesel agrees there's something more to The Fast and the Furious.
Mike Cidoni: It's a love story.
Vin Diesel: It is very...I think you're dead-on. It definitely plays on that love-story level.
Cidoni: You know, I'm only half-joking.
Diesel: I'm being sincere. The relationships are all unique.
As is the film's blend of burnt rubber, street gangs and unlikely romance...all new, but also with an old-fashioned heart: think West Side Story.
Diesel: I mean, it's basically that same story -- that same Romeo and Juliet thing.
Cidoni: I mean, it's perfect: we've got the stairway here, the bricks. All we're missing are the Sharks and the Jets.
Diesel: Yes, let's go on the balcony...
Cidoni: A little singing, a little dancing...I'd love to see you do that.
Diesel: You may.
We've previously seen Diesel as a grunt in Saving Private Ryan, an alien-fighter in Pitch Black. But he's got other dreams.
Diesel: Looking for that musical-comedy.
Cidoni: Listen, Hollywood: Vin Diesel, he wants to sing.
Diesel: Vin Diesel wants to do a musical-comedy.
(Cidoni and Diesel laugh)
'Til then, he provides the muscle to muscle-car in The Fast and the Furious.
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