This weekend marks the return of our favorite eXtreme sports loving agent, Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) who fans all assumed was killed off when Ice Cube took over the franchise in the sequel to the first film from 2002. Well, we would have all lost that bet as Xander is back with a fully diverse cast of characters. This cast is insanely entertaining to watch both on screen and in person, with Vin being the ring leader of it all. We sat down with the cast for their take on the film and how different it is than your average Hollywood action flick.
Vin Diesel: I needed to do xXx for myself, because I needed to play a character to be able to laugh again and smile again and really enjoy myself. There’s something so cool about the idea of going into other film markets and recruiting their celebrated heroes and incorporating it into this franchise. In addition to that, I don’t think people have been having that much fun in movies. That’s why right now. don’t think people have been having that much fun in movies. Are there political parallels? I don’t know. More than anything, the world needed a movie to just have fun!
Deepika Padukone – Every weekend we’d have sessions with the stunt team. We had an amazing action and stunt team, I remember Ruby went out to shoot a couple of times, she’s a sniper in the film and, how do you get comfortable enough to stop thinking about it and think about it as a seperate device in your hand actually. How do you say dialogue and load the gun and point and shoot and do all of that, it’s truly incredible. Yes, I wasn’t speaking my native language and it was fun doing all of those action pieces in character. When you have an amazing team that makes you feel confident, if your teacher tells you that you can do it, it gives you such strength and confidence. We had an amazing team.
Vin Diesel started the conference by quoting his son who said, “This movie is just fun, Daddy.” No one could have said it better.
The film stars Vin Diesel, Ruby Rose, Deepika Padukone, Donny Yen, Kris Wu, Tony Jaa, Nina Dobrev, Hermione Corfield, Toni Collette, Nicky Jam and Samuel L. Jackson.
xXx: Return of Xander Cage explodes into theaters Friday!