LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – When actors from the “Fast & Furious” films gathered recently in the parking lot at Dodger Stadium to promote the seventh installment, they spent a lot of time talking about a cast member who wasn’t there: Paul Walker.
The veteran of the action franchise died aged 40 in a car crash before filming finished for “Furious 7,” which opens in U.S. theaters on Friday. Director James Wan and Universal Pictures decided to retire Walker’s character, Brian O’Conner, in a way that his cast mates found, in their words, beautiful, emotional, joyful and respectful.
Lead actor Vin Diesel, who had worked with Walker since the 2001 debut film “The Fast and the Furious,” said audiences are likely to think the ending will make them sad.
“It sounds crazy, but you leave the movie with tears of joy,” Diesel told Reuters in the parking lot that reminded him of Walker, who played a former police officer on the team of street racers led by Diesel’s character, Dom Toretto.
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