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Ludacris and Tyrese talk Fast & Furious 6<\/a><\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

May 17, 2013<\/p>\n

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Blazing on the screen on May 24 is the latest installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise, ‘Fast & Furious 6.’ <\/strong><\/p>\n

Vin Diesel, Paul Walker<\/strong> and Dwayne Johnson<\/strong> lead the returning cast of all-stars as the global blockbuster franchise built on speed races to its next continent in \u201cFast & Furious 6.\u201d Reuniting for their most high-stakes adventure yet, fan favorites Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Chris \u201cLudacris\u201d Bridges<\/strong> and Elsa Pataky<\/strong> are joined by badass series newcomers Luke Evans<\/strong> and Gina Carano<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For Tyrese Gibson<\/strong> and Chris \u201cLudacris\u201d Bridges, who met on <\/strong>2 Fast 2 Furious, and came back on Fast Five, it’s been a joyride for both to see this series last as long as it has.<\/p>\n

It a recently interview, with other journalists, Blackfilm.com was able to chat with both of them on their experience on the film and the series.<\/p>\n

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What do you think it is about this franchise that keeps bringing, not only the audience back, but the actors as well?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tyrese Gibson: <\/strong> Man, I got the answers for your question though.\u00a0 It always started with the cars and people’s love and passion for vehicles.\u00a0 But, then came a bunch of action and then came more characters and then came more sex appeal and ladies.\u00a0 And then came us going and traveling to all different parts of the world.\u00a0 And it’s just story line and everything, a sense of family, all of that is what keeps–it just keeps people guessing.\u00a0 It’s exciting.\u00a0 The action sequences are on like just cutting edge technology.\u00a0 So, that\u2019s just what it’s about.<\/p>\n

Iron Man 3 continues to blow everybody out of the water with great numbers, highest grossing film, and breaking some records.\u00a0 And your film will be up next.\u00a0 Do you guys think that Fast & Furious 6 can take down Iron Man 3 and top the box office?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Ludacris:<\/strong> Well, you know, the thing is, man, I’m going to be honest with you.\u00a0 I think the competition, you know, our box office numbers compared to everybody else is something that the Hollywood folks get caught up in.\u00a0 All we do every day when we’re on the set is feel the pressure of knowing that the fans are waiting on something that\u2019s really good.\u00a0 And we work real hard at making the best version of this movie that we can make, especially if the one that we had just finished, you know, was considered one of the best ones since the franchise had been started.<\/p>\n

So, you know, if the last one was horrible it’d of been easier to make a better movie with this.\u00a0 But, they loved it so much we were just working real hard to try and top that.\u00a0 And so, the competition is honestly within us showing up every day to be the vest version of us we can be.\u00a0 And whatever the box office numbers are going to be, man, that’s just what it is.\u00a0 But, salute to Iron Man 3 for those numbers.\u00a0 It’s a beautiful thing.\u00a0 We love that.\u00a0 I hope they call me for Iron Man 4.<\/p>\n

What character would you want to play if you could do Iron Man 4? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 Man, listen, I’ll do catering, whatever the hell they need.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 Iron Chef around here.<\/p>\n

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Being that the both of you have been part of the series early on, what was it like coming back, having done the last film all together and now you have a bigger cast and adding more characters. And for Tyrese you got to be more physical in this film. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 Well, that was always the goal, you know, for me I love action movies.\u00a0 I got my share of action stars that inspire me.\u00a0 and I actually am happy that I haven’t seen a million movies, so when it come time to me trying to figure out a way to bring something different to action actions I pride myself in feeling like, damn, I’m doing something that probably ain’t been done before because you ain’t got no other references, so you just like look, if I feel it, I do it.\u00a0 And I’ve never seen anybody jump from a white mustang to a blue little Papa Smurf car and then witnesses a tank crush it.\u00a0 So, I was really fired up that Justin even wanted me to be a part of that scene.<\/p>\n

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And Ludacris, how about yourself coming back and just being part of this ensemble again?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 Man, it feels great to come back, man, you know, especially being a black man and not getting killed off.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 Come on, black man ain’t getting killed.<\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 So, there you have it.\u00a0 I’m grateful, man.\u00a0 I’m blessed.\u00a0 And I feel good about being part of this franchise, man.\u00a0 I couldn’t ask for much more.\u00a0 And you know we’ll see where it goes.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 We don’t have to practice the death face.\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 No acting coach for the death face.<\/p>\n

So some other franchises that have had six chapters recently are Star Wars and Saw.\u00a0 How do you guys compare yourselves to those franchises?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ludacris:\u00a0 We don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 Yeah, we set out to be the most successful franchise in history.\u00a0 Come on.<\/p>\n

Better than Star Wars.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Tyrese:\u00a0 Better than Star Wars, man, we’re on the way.\u00a0 We on our way, man.\u00a0 You know nothing can–I mean, Star Wars is historic, but you know when you try to compare the two, you can’t really do that.\u00a0 However, we set to be the most successful franchise.<\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 We have goals.\u00a0 We’re not in competition.\u00a0 But, we got goals.\u00a0 And I often wonder since George Lucas gave up the Star Wars to Disney or whatever it was.\u00a0 It was Disney?<\/p>\n

Yeah.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 I’m just wondering how good that one is right now because George Lucas is very hands on maintaining the integrity of the Star Wars franchise.\u00a0 And it’d be interesting to see what this one even looks like.\u00a0 I’m interested in seeing it.<\/p>\n

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There are so many great driving scenes in this, but who is the best and worst driver out of the cast? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 I’m probably one of the best because I’m fearless. \u00a0I’m going to be real with you, I think Paul Walker is probably the best driver for real.\u00a0 He has a crazy stable of cars.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 This has been his passion for a long time.<\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 He’s the most authentic car dude of this franchise.\u00a0 He has people that work from him that sit on the internet all day and try and track down the whole collection of certain cars so that he can say that he owns them all.\u00a0 And then he sits on them and watches them rise in value.\u00a0 I mean it’s a different thing.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 The worst driver is probably the Rock.\u00a0 I mean he can’t fit in half the cars that they make or produce around the world.<\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 I don’t think I would ever invite Dwayne to ride in one of my cars.\u00a0 There’d probably be baby oil all over the damn place.<\/p>\n

Director Justin Lin has orchestrated some really intricate and complex action scenes.\u00a0 But the action scenes from Fast and Furious 6 were better than anything we\u2019ve seen in a while.\u00a0 Can you talk about the hardest action scenes to film and why it was so difficult? <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Ludacris:\u00a0 I didn’t really get much action because, of course, I’m the brains and the computer geek.\u00a0 But, this guy right here can tell you all about it.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 Action-wise I think one of the most challenging scenes was probably the big tank sequence.\u00a0 And the reason it was challenging for me because when he explained it it made no damn sense.\u00a0 But, when you see it all put together it was just crazy that Justin Lin’s brilliance had the foresight to understand the beginning, middle and end of the outcome of what that scene would be.\u00a0 And so we all contributed and for me that was one of my favorite scenes.\u00a0 I think the big plane sequence in the end people are going to \u00a0love it.\u00a0 Some people are going to feel whatever kind of way about it, but I think the highlight was definitely the tank sequence in my opinion.<\/p>\n

Let’s get back on the cars.\u00a0 You guys were just talking about Paul Walker’s car collection.\u00a0 What is the most attractive thing to you about a muscle car and has this franchise influenced your car collection?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 How fast it can go from zero to 60, how many seconds.\u00a0 And what was the other one about the car collection?\u00a0 What was the other question?<\/p>\n

Has being a part of these films influenced your car collection?\u00a0 Like how many cars have you purchased since you’ve been on these films?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Ludacris:\u00a0 Oh, I purchased two cars from the Fast and Furious franchise actually.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 This is true.<\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 So, when I was in Too Fast, Too Furious there was Louis Vuitton painted Ram truck that I got.<\/p>\n

Tyrese: \u00a0Which was ghetto as hell, but he bought it.<\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 Yes it was.\u00a0 And then Fast Five, that–.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 –Them Louis Vuitton prints didn’t look nowhere near believable.<\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 And then the car, the big truck that The Rock–a part of Rock’s convoy, the gray one in Fast Five, I bought that, too.<\/p>\n

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What about you, Ty?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 To be honest, there is a certain unspoken–whether people actually say it or not, there is a certain unspoken responsibility that you feel to drive fly cars because I mean you don’t want to be seen in like something extra corny when you’re associated to the Fast franchise.\u00a0 So, I mean I drive a Fisker Karma that I love.\u00a0 It’s all over the internet.\u00a0 You all should pull it up and check your boy out because I’m smashing LA right now.\u00a0 And if I sounded like a sports announcer–right now I think my car game has definitely went to another level.\u00a0 I mean, you know, just the custom interior that I got going, along with the rims, it’s just a perfect complement to what I got going on in LA.\u00a0 And most cars can’t see me.<\/p>\n

The both of you cheated in this film, and neither of you have girlfriends or love interests.\u00a0 If you could play director, who would you cast in actresses out right now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 Halle Berry.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 We’re both fighting over Halle Berry being in the franchise.<\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 She does do big franchise type movies.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 Sex scenes, yeah, so we need that.<\/p>\n

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Do you think she would do it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tyrese: <\/strong>You never know.<\/p>\n

Ludacris: <\/strong> Yeah, I’m thinking like listen, we seen Jordana pregnant.\u00a0 She’s pregnant right now.\u00a0 We could really make use of this Halle Berry in this movie.\u00a0 Give me some of that Halle Berry bottom lip come on, oh, my God.<\/p>\n

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Tyrese:\u00a0 I didn’t even really think about it like that, man, like what are we doing, bro, for real.\u00a0 Damn.\u00a0 We need some women in our lives.\u00a0 Like what the–what’s going on, man.<\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 You got computers and cars.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 The thing is we are the guys that really got, you know what I mean, our share of energy out there.\u00a0 I don’t even want to say the other word, you know what I mean?<\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 Swag.\u00a0 Swag.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 And it’s like the guys that got girls in the movie, they really ain’t popping like that.<\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 What?\u00a0 He said that.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 Yeah, man.\u00a0 It’s crazy.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 Like this is a rigorous contradiction in the franchise, man.\u00a0 It’s just crazy.<\/p>\n

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Do you think that there will be more films to come, what is it that you want to add to your character?\u00a0 Would it be another location?\u00a0 And like you mentioned, this was the longest runway, so if you wanted a place where you can shoot and we can just drive all day long, where would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 Where in the world?<\/p>\n

Yeah.<\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 Man, I would love to go to Abu Dhabi, go to the Dubai.\u00a0 I woke up laying there in Abu Dhabi because we all know you know it’s a lot of money out there made up in car.\u00a0 They got a lot of crazy cars.\u00a0 So, I’m thinking that would be good.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 I’m staying at a hotel right now and there’s like a shake that stand there and this dude’s got a Maybach, a Bugatti and the Bentley Arnage, in front of the dang ole hotel and it’s just crazy.\u00a0 So, it’s like they are not into cars.\u00a0 They are crazy about cars.\u00a0 And they customize them.\u00a0 And they’re like they compete with other shakes, man.\u00a0 They be trying to like outdo each other.\u00a0 So, it’s like we go out there they’ll just open up their whole collection and let us use their car even if we wreck them.\u00a0 They wouldn’t care.<\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 Abu Dhabi, Dubai would be the next move for sure.<\/p>\n

Chris, we’ve heard your two new singles.\u00a0 You sound really hungry and motivated.\u00a0 How’s your new music coming along?\u00a0 And how do you feel going back to it after being in this movie?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ludacris:\u00a0 Oh, man, I feel great, man.\u00a0 We\u2019re dropping a mix tape of songs on the same day the movie comes out.\u00a0 So, May 24.\u00a0 And then my album Little Versa [sp] will be out sometime around September.\u00a0 So, yeah, man, it’s a lot of good music, so I appreciate you taking notice to that, my man.<\/p>\n

Tyrese:\u00a0 Well, I’m doing something I would consider like a trilogy.\u00a0 I have a book and a double album and a documentary all called Black Rose and that should be coming out next year.\u00a0 I’m also working with this new artist who used to be in this group called RichGirl and she went solo.\u00a0 Her name is Lyndriette, a\/k\/a Crystal.\u00a0 And she’s actually out here in London with me.\u00a0 and I think the music thing that I’m doing real right now and we’re on our way to a number one is TGT, which stands for Tyrese Genuine and Tank, the first single is called Sex Never Felt Better and we just shot the video and we shot a–did a photo shoot last week.\u00a0 And we’re just excited about that, a shout out to Atlantic Records for putting the whole building behind the group TGT.\u00a0 We’ve got a 32-city tour too coming up too; you know what I’m saying?\u00a0 Holler at your boy.\u00a0 You know what I’m saying? Ha, ha, ha ha.\u00a0 Oh, you know, next time we’re going to try and get you all on the plane, man, even though you all would have been jetlagged as hell, we need you all out here, man, let’s do this.<\/p>\n

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