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
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,