“He’s so dope, man,” gushed Michelle Rodriguez by filmmaker Louis Leterrier (Now you see me) who jumped into the driver’s seat to take the lead x fast when Justin Lin pressed the eject button after reaching a breaking point during a disagreement with wine Dieselas THR reported.

Leterrier has since wrapped the car with a creative team from his native France. “This Fast and Furious is the French Fast and Furious“, Rodriguez explained during a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter on the Comic-Con red carpet where she was promoting her role in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Thieves. “Our special effects team, all the guys who do the fighting, they’re all French. Our second AD is French. The French of our director. It’s like the French takeover, man.

And Rodriguez is the first to say “Yes” to all of this. “Believe me, at first I was like two weeks without a manager. I was like, ‘What are we going to do?’ “, she explained.

Between the French: “He came with all this energy of love. We haven’t had that in Fast and Furious for a very long time where we’re exciting someone who’s a real fan and really wants to go where they’ve never gone before. We’ve been at it for 20 years, mate. After all this time you get jaded and you kinda forget why you do it [until] a director like Louis arrives and reminds you: “It’s magnificent. Let’s go do some magic. We are so lucky to have him my brother.

This story first appeared in the July 27 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe.