And I said, “Mom, no one’s ever going to see this movie.” Then the movie came out and it changed my life forever. Fast-forward a few months, when the movie was done, my mom asked me, “Chad, do you want to have a premiere in our hometown?” Because I’m from a small town in Washington. And I was super pumped, like, “This is exciting! All these cool cars and whatnot.” I had such a great experience. I got the part probably within an hour of auditioning. They called me back almost immediately to read with Rob Cohen, the director, and then Matt Schulze and Johnny Strong. Why am I being silly? I’ll go in.” I read for the casting director. Then another agent called me, he’s like, “Yo man, just go in,” and I’m like, “Okay, of course. She called me back, tried to convince me to go in again. So my agent called me up, and she’s like, “Why aren’t you going in on this?” And I’m like, “I just didn’t respond to the script.” She hung up on me, rightfully so. I want to do serious, independent movies.” I didn’t know any better. At the time, I was like, “Oh, I’m an artist. I’ve told this story many times - I actually passed on the original audition. I was 23, I think, when I got cast in The Fast and the Furious. I started working right away, which is unheard of, in October Sky and some good TV. It’s funny, my career happened for me relatively younger, around 19 or so. Where were you at, professionally and personally, around then? The Fast and the Furious came out in 2001. On the 20th anniversary of The Fast and the Furious, Lindberg spoke with Vulture about why he initially turned down offers to audition for the film, his relationship with fandoms, and his own hashtag campaign. But he’s more than ready to come back and reprise the role.
Lindberg had no idea, when he took the part of Jesse in that first 2001 film, that he was appearing in something that would not just become a hit but that would, after a few stutter steps, launch an enormous global franchise that went from the Los Angeles street-racing scene to, improbably and wonderfully, outer space. And though he may have perished in a rain of bullets after reneging on a bet made with Dom’s rival Johnny Tran (Rick Yune), as has been well-established, no one who dies onscreen in these movies has to stay that way.
He’s the first character to say grace over dinner outside the Toretto family home, a scene that became a Fast & Furious tradition. Sure, Gal Gadot’s ascendance to the superhero tier makes the surprise resurrection of her character, Gisele, unlikely - but what about Jesse, the twitchy, sensitive mechanic played by Chad Lindberg in the original The Fast and the Furious? Jesse, a self-taught savant when it comes to cars, was a surrogate little brother to Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto in addition to being an essential part of his criminal operation.
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But as the series crosses the two-decade mark, the small slate of memorable characters who still haven’t come back in some form has started to feel glaring. The franchise’s soap-operatic refusal to allow death to be final has made its strangest choice to also be strangely moving - it has stubbornly kept Paul Walker’s character Brian around, just off-screen, for what’s now been years after the actor died in an accident in 2013. In the wake of a fan-hashtag campaign (#JusticeForHan), the new movie F9 undoes his passing entirely, revealing him to have been living in hiding after forming his own version of the Fast & Furiouses’ most holy element, the makeshift family. After Han, that perpetually snacking member of the car-driving crew played by Sung Kang, was killed off in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the series contorted its timeline in order to keep him around for the next three installments. Letty, the rubber-burning love interest played by Michelle Rodriguez, got murdered in the fourth film, but by the sixth one, she was back as an amnesiac antagonist who had survived the explosion that appeared to have killed her at the expense of her memories. It’s more powerful than memory or mortality, always pulling characters back in for new appearances, either from the oblivion of time or from beyond the grave. On the 20th anniversary of the unlikely start of the now-monster franchise, the actor thinks it’s time to #BringJesseBack.ĭeath holds no dominion over the Fast & Furious franchise.
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