On the ninth anniversary of his friend and co-star Paul Walker’s terrible death in a 2013 car accident, Vin Diesel paid tribute to the actor.
Walker was 40 years old at the time of the deadly vehicle accident in Santa Clarita, California, on November 30, 2013, and the Fast and the Furious actor, 55, shared a photo of the two of them online.
He wrote, ‘Nine years… love you and miss you.’
Walker rode the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise to stardom, starring in all but one of the six action-packed blockbusters, beginning with the first film in 2001.
The blond-haired, blue-eyed Los Angeles native brought California surfer good looks and an easy, warm charm to the popular street-racing series.
On November 30, 2013, Walker died after being involved in a car crash at the age of 40. At the scene of the accident, a Porsche Carrera GT was found engulfed in flames when deputies reached the scene, according to Fox News, a USA-based news outlet.
As per the new outlet, following Walker’s death, Diesel spoke about the loss of his friend and said during an appearance on the SiriusXM show in 2017, “I’m still reeling from the loss, the idea of continuing along without my brother Pablo and what that felt like and the complexities of that.”
Walker died on Nov. 30, 2013, in a car crash. He was 40. As he was in the middle of filming Fast 7 at the time, Paul’s brothers Caleb and Cody were hired to stand in for him for the remainder of production, before his face was digitally superimposed onto their bodies.
“I think Vin and the whole family have done a good job tastefully letting the character ride off into the sunset. I think Paul would get a real kick out of where it’s gone. It’s gotten so crazy. It’s a wild, wild ride at this point,” said Cody, who briefly appeared in Furious 7 while helping the franchise write off Walker’s character.
“I can’t speculate what he would think, I just know that Vin always takes a very serious approach to keeping Paul’s legacy in mind and has always done a really nice job paying tribute to his character,” Cody added. “They worked together and were brothers for years. They were all so young when this thing first started.”
