Vin Diesel gave Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson a lot of 'tough love' when he joined ...

Vin Diesel gave Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson a lot of 'tough love' when he joined ...
Vin Diesel gave Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson a lot of 'tough love' when he joined ...

They're not friends; they are family.

And Vin Diesel admitted he gave Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson 'a lot of tough love' when he joined the franchise nearly a decade ago.

The 53-year-old actor — who also serves as a producer on the latest F9 installment — noted that Johnson's character was 'tough' and he gave it his all to make sure The Rock embodied the bullish federal agent, Luke Hobbs.

Too fast: Vin Diesel admitted he gave Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson 'a lot of tough love' when he joined the franchise nearly a decade ago

Too fast: Vin Diesel admitted he gave Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson 'a lot of tough love' when he joined the franchise nearly a decade ago

Johnson first joined the famous franchise in 2011 for Fast Five and was last seen alongside Diesel in 2017's The Fate of the Furious, before getting a spin-off with Jason Statham,

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