Timeline of Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson Feud

You don’t flip your again on household — except you’re Vin Diesel or Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who’ve been nursing grudges in opposition to one another on and off since a minimum of 2016.

The 2 motion stars made their first onscreen look collectively in 2011’s Quick 5, through which the previous wrestler joined the already long-running franchise as Luke Hobbs, an agent pursuing the Quick and Livid crew for his or her numerous crimes in opposition to … each regulation enforcement company on the planet.

The whole lot appeared copacetic through the years as Johnson returned for the sixth and seventh entries within the saga, however in August 2016, the Jumanji star set the fandom ablaze with a since-deleted Instagram submit through which he referred to unnamed members of the forged as “sweet asses.”

Rumors instantly swirled that he was insulting Diesel, who had been a part of the Quick franchise because the first film premiered in 2001. A couple of days later, after filming for The Destiny of the Livid wrapped, Johnson posted one other Instagram thanking a few of his castmates by title — Scott Eastwood and Nathalie Emmanuel, for instance — however pointedly didn’t point out Diesel.

Although the Rampage star by no means recognized the goal of his ire, his costar seemingly confirmed that it was him in his personal Instagram video. “Actually, give me a second and I’ll let you know every thing,” he stated. “The whole lot.”

Later, the duo’s costar Michelle Rodriguez confirmed that there was pressure between the lads on set, although chalked it up because the sort of disagreement any shut pals might have.

“Any human being who is aware of what males are like is aware of to remain out [of those] conditions and allow them to determine it out,” she stated in September 2016. “They’re ‘bros’, man. They’re pals, and in the end even pals attain some extent the place they need to put aside their variations to make a film for multicultural folks all over the world, and that’s the greater scheme of issues.”

Fellow Quick Saga actor Tyrese Gibson was considerably much less diplomatic, nonetheless, when F9 was delayed for the primary time in October 2017. (It was later delayed once more due to the coronavirus pandemic.)

“Congratulations to @TheRock and your brother in regulation aka 7 bucks producing associate @hhgarcia41 for making the quick and the livid franchise about YOU,” he wrote by way of Instagram, seemingly blaming Johnson for the film’s manufacturing delays.

At that time, Diesel defended the San Andreas actor from Gibson’s accusations, saying that it wasn’t anyone particular person’s fault and the franchise was “in want of upkeep.” Johnson, in the meantime, left the primary Quick Saga and starred in his personal spinoff, Hobbs & Shaw.

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