After 6 to 10 hours of delivering such guttural tones, Diesel would be left unable to speak for up to three hours.
Or do you do a modern version? Yet from film to film, rather than truly living up to their multiracial identity, Vin Diesel's characters have become raceless, of no specific color: living proofs of America's post-civil rights movement, soon-to-be post affirmative-action, fantasized ideal of color-blindness.
If you have an extra keen eye, you may have first seen him in the Hollywood blockbuster Saving Private Ryan… but enough history for you.
I just kind of unlocked that vault, which made for a very tough shooting experience, because I was never that successful in leaving the character on the set.