Vin Diesel Pays Tribute to Paul Walker 9 Years After His Death – Vin Diesel is paying tribute to his late co-star and friend, Paul Walker. Tuesday, the night before the ninth anniversary of his friend’s death, the Riddick star posted a throwback photo of the co-star on Instagram. “Nine years…love you and miss you,” Diesel, 55, posted alongside the photo.
Walker died in an auto crash on November 30, 2013. He was 40. As Paul was in the midst of filming Fast 7 at the time, his brothers Caleb and Cody were hired to stand in for him until his face could be digitally overlaid onto their bodies. Last year, Walker’s brother Cody praised the manner in which Diesel has continued to remember his late brother.
“I think Vin and the whole family have done a good job tastefully letting the character ride off into the sunset. I think Paul would get a real kick out of where it’s gone. It’s gotten so crazy. It’s a wild, wild ride at this point,” said Cody, who briefly appeared in Furious 7 while helping the franchise write off Walker’s character.
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“I can’t speculate what he would think, I just know that Vin always takes a very serious approach to keeping Paul’s legacy in mind and has always done a really nice job paying tribute to his character,” Cody added. “They worked together and were brothers for years. They were all so young when this thing first started.”
Diesel is not the only member of the Fast and Furious cast to mourn Walker’s passing. Jordana Brewster recently disclosed that her relationship to Walker is forever. In an interview last year, the 42-year-old Fast and Furious star discussed her grief for her late co-star. “I think when someone passes away that has a huge impact on your life and has had a huge impact, frankly, on so many people’s lives,” Brewster told news outlet of Walker, who played her onscreen husband in the action movie franchise.
Her grief “goes in waves where it’s super visceral at times, and it’s like it’s unimaginable that that person’s not with us anymore,” she shared. “It just gets very intense and then sometimes it’s less intense,” Brewster continued. “But it just comes in waves, regardless of whether it’s that person’s birthday or not.”
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