I read that Diesel, Dwayne and Statham all have clauses in their contracts that say no-one can beat them in a fight so whenever they fight each other they all hit each other exact the same amount of times.
Supposedly Vin Diesel and The Rock hate each other so much that for the last F&F they were never on set at the same time and any scene where they are is edited together. Pretty hilarious.
I also watched a behind the scenes feature on the making of the entire series and the actual car stunts are surprisingly real a majority of the time. That in itself is a technical and logistical miracle. The only other modern film that comes close to the latter F&F's for that kind of spectacle is Fury Road.
Absolutely true, which is bizarre, and has led to the tertiary folks, i.e. Tyrese Gibson, being pretty fucking annoyed at having their meal ticket turned into, I dunno, whatever the fuck that is.
Diesel and Johnson, in particular, have a quite famous dislike of each other that apparently did indeed lead to the last proper F and F movie being shot with them doing their work entirely separately, which, kinda WTF. They both seem like arrogant assholes from how they're portrayed in the media, but yeesh, I dunno, $20 million each can't work things out? Honestly, it's kind of funny to me how all three guys (Statham included here) could have a legit claim to being able to whip the others' asses, regardless of acting talent, except for maybe Diesel. Statham's a legit world-class athlete in diving and he's trained as hell in martial arts. Rock, well, yeah, he's a pro wrestler but you fight him. Vin may be the be most street-wise of the three but he's last in my rankings by a lot.
And... then... Hobbes and Shaw killed it at the box office. F and F next will do okay, but not as well without its two actual breadwinners.
Diesel's okay, he's a cool Hollywood success story overall, but really, maybe don't pick a fight you aren't going to win.
Also F and F movies are as fucking stupid and formulaic as new Star Wars and MCU. The one with Luke Evans was okay but fuck me, Luke, Luda, Tyrese, Asian Chick, Dr. Strange, Blonde Girl, Dame Judy Dench just stop it.