Fast and Furious director Justin Lin has said that his 11-year-old son Oqwe is his biggest critic.
As well as coming up with the magnet plane in F9:The Fast Saga, the latest instalment in the $5 billion franchise, Oqwe has been by his father's side for many of the F&F movies.
Speaking to RTÉ Entertainment, the director, who has now made five of the films in the series, said, "Making these movies are so involving. Ever since Fast Five, when Oqwe was a year and a half - he’s always with me to keep the family together as we’re travelling around the world to have a voice, even a critical voice, I’m always looking for that and he definitely does not shy away from being my biggest critic."
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Along with magnet planes, there are also magnet trucks, and even a trip to space in F9 but no matter how preposterous, Lin says that none of his ideas for stunts and action sequence have been shot down by the production team over the years.
"Hahaha. No. I feel like that when we started one of the biggest things we committed to was that if we were lucky enough to have another chapter, we were always going to evolve the characters, that they’re human beings and that they were going to grow and start families and with every chapter we were always trying to do something new," he says.
"This is one of those unique situations when we started it was a movie out of the Sundance Film Festival but when we got to do another chapter, we got a chance to grow it. When it comes to the action it was always about trying to support that. Earlier, budgetary constraints might have stopped us from doing certain things.
He added, "I remember that on the train scene in Fast Five, we did not have money for a second take and when we ran the truck into the train, everyone held their breath because we nearly wrecked the train and everyone started cheering when it survived because we didn’t have a second train."
F9: The Fast Saga is in cinemas now.
