Golden Globes Producers Reveal Their Reaction to Unscripted Vin Diesel-Dwayne Johnson Moment

The Golden Globes producers affirm that the second between Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson was totally surprising.

On Sunday, Jan. 5, Diesel, 57, arrived on stage on the 2025 Golden Globes to current the award for movie cinematic and field workplace achievement. But earlier than he introduced Wicked because the winner, he prolonged an olive department to his former Fast and Furious costar, with whom he has alleged behind-the-scenes drama.

“Hi Dwayne …” Diesel stated and smiled, glancing on the 52-year-old actor earlier than presenting the award. The cameras lower to Johnson, who reacted with a smile.

The telecast’s govt producer, Glenn Weiss, informed Variety that the surprising interplay between the actors brought about the producers’ concern.

“It kind of keeps you gripped, and even you in the press room, us in the truck, are going, ‘Wait, what? What’s happening?’ ” Weiss informed Variety. 

He continued: “At that point, there’s a live event taking place, and our job is to bring it to you and let you decipher it. What is the exchange going on between them? I think it’s really important to show what’s happening in the room.”

Diesel’s shoutout adopted stories that he and Johnson didn’t get alongside, with rumors of an alleged feud starting in 2016 after they accomplished The Fate of the Furious. At the time, they had been rumored to have butted heads on multiple event whereas taking pictures the eighth installment of the movie franchise.

That August, Johnson posted a now-deleted Instagram praising the movie crew and his feminine costars however known as out some unnamed male costars.

“There’s no different franchise that will get my blood boiling greater than this one,” he wrote on the time. “My feminine costars are at all times superb and I like ’em. My male costars, nevertheless, are a unique story. Some conduct themselves as stand-up males and true professionals, whereas others do not.”

He added: “The ones that do not are too rooster s— to do something about it anyway. Candy a—-. When you watch this film subsequent April and it looks as if I’m not appearing in a few of these scenes and my blood is legit boiling — you are proper.”

However, Diesel refuted the allegations and claimed the 2 had been “shut.”

“I believe some issues could also be blown out of proportion. I do not assume that was his intention,” he stated of Johnson’s assertion. “I do know he appreciates how a lot I work this franchise. In my home, he is Uncle Dwayne.”

Johnson briefly departed the franchise in 2021. That October, he informed Vanity Fair that he solely agreed to look in 2017’s The Fate of the Furious if he did not need to share any scenes with Diesel.

Two years later, Johnson introduced his return, and the actors seemingly mended their relationship.

“Last summer season Vin and I put all of the previous behind us,” Johnson wrote on X (previously referred to as Twitter) in June 2023. “We’ll lead with brotherhood and resolve — and at all times maintain the franchise, characters & FANS that we love.”

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Since the discharge of the tenth movie, 2023’s Fast X, Diesel and Johnson are anticipated to return for the upcoming movie Fast X: Part 2. The film was initially slated for an April 2025 launch however has been postponed till 2026, director Louis Leterrier beforehand informed Collider.