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Which brings us to today.
I love the fact that I get to play Dom Toretto.
Im sure that there are people that would love forFastto continue on and on and on and on.
And that ended up bringing Justin back to the franchise after being away for a couple of films.
Well, I dont think Dom had much faith in the world.
Therein lies the gigantic difference between Toretto of today and Toretto of the past.
Why did the solo movie never materialize?
He said, I walked away from the franchise.
I said, Im producing.
And he says, Im in.
I think the Toretto story line that theyve wanted to do can always exist in the future.
Its not something that is completely off the table.
So there could be a Toretto spinoff?
Or maybe you are talking about even doing a prequel because now weve met young Dom?
I will say that there is nothing that is off the table, Chris.
Your production company is called One Race.
You have never specifically addressed what ethnicity Dom is.
And in this film, it turns out his dad is ethnically ambiguous, too.
As a fellowethnically ambiguousperson, I really enjoyed that.
Meanwhile, Doms brother Jakob presents as white.
That was in the service of having to cast a brother.
I think there is an inevitable moment when you are going to meet my fathers mother.
And there will be some more insight to that past.
As you know, this film, this chapter, is about fatherhood.
As fathers, we reflect on our fathers.
What we learned here is, its also related to the loss of his brother.
I want to switch gears to ask you about your music.
I remember reading you had done some stuff with Steve Aoki?
I have done stuffwith Steve Aoki.
Ive done stuff with a lot of people.
That was one of the positives to the pandemic preventing me from being on-set.
There needed to be another positive creative outlet.
And as you know, Ive always fantasized about the idea of making music.
Ive been doing covers on Facebook for the last decade.
And when this lockdown and the quarantine happened, my creative outlet was music.
I was grateful to have that to rely on for my sanity.
Did it ever hurt your feelings to go online?
That people were like, This is actually good?
Did it ever take you aback that people reacted that way?
Chris, the first time I had ever done a cover was, I believe, 2013.
I remember Tyrese [Gibson] asking me to go to something called the Grammys.
Nothing I knew about, right?
He said, I got nominated and I really need some backup.
Can you come with me to the Grammys?
I went to the Grammys.
I maybe lasted 15 minutes.
I had all these musicians looking at me and Im like, out of here.
But while I was there, I saw Rihanna and Mikky Ekko perform a song called Stay.
And I sang that song and I posted it as aValentines Day video.
And I remember people going, Thats crazy!
Dont ever do that.
The fact that youre not a professionally trained singer.
And he said, Pfft.
Dont listen to that.
You know youre a singer.
So my point is, he encouraged me to sing.
That led to Kygo wanting me to sing.
Steve Aoki wanting me to sing.
Nicki M. wanting me to sing.
And I eventually got the confidence to step out of my comfort zone and went for it.
Can we expect an album anytime soon?
Or are you just going to do it song by song?
I would love to do an album.
What youre implying is whats real.
And that is, I do go deeply into stuff to the point of being myopic at times.
