Looking back at the return to production now, it is completely understandable why James Wan finished Fast and Furious 7, as quickly as he did: the actors were emotionally falling apart. Ludacris recently explained that the only way the returning cast members were really able to do it was to imagine that it was what the recently deceased Paul Walker would have wanted. Riddick action star Vin Diesel confessed that working of the last Fast franchise installment without Walker, whose autopsy update revealed was actually still alive moments after the crash, was the hardest thing he has ever had to do in his life.
After The emotional and mental strain put on the core cast and crew of Fast and Furious 7, they may need to be tested and treated for PTSD due to the horrific ordeal or having to complete the film without their co-star of more than a decade, Paul Walker.
Atlanta based hip hop artist turned struggling actor, Ludacris, told XXL that getting back to work seemed almost impossible once the all returned to the set without Walker:
"It was definitely difficult, but at a certain time, we all came together and understood.
"We was[sic] 75 percent done before his untimely death. Us coming back together was definitely hard but there was also an understanding that we were going to finish this movie because that's what he would have wanted us to do.
"Continue his legacy and leave an extremely huge mark with this film...I think people's breath is going to be taken away when they watch this one."
Action icon Vin Diesel, who clearly counted Paul Walker among his closest of long-time Hollywood friends, explained quiet poetically to NFL Hall of Famer, Michael Strahan, on Live with Kelly and Michal! just how soul crushing it was to have to work alongside his buddy's memory (via Huffington Post):
"It's a heavy thing, Michael. You know?
"It was someone that, we...we grew up in the business together, and we became famous together, and we represented the biggest franchise together.
"He was my partner, and it's a strange thing to...I've been acting all my life and they don't teach you in acting [school], how to mourn someone and simultaneously pretend they're in a scene with you."
Fast and Furious 7 will be hitting theaters a full two weeks ahead of schedule April 3, 2015.
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