With "Fast & Furious 6" ready to hit theaters this week, Michelle Rodriguez discuses the return of her character Letty to the franchise.
"[Vin Diesel] decided to keep his word from 'Fast & Furious 4' when he told me that death is in everybody's imagination," Rodriguez told MTV.
For those who are not familiar with the entire series, Rodriguez's character is presumed dead.
Rodriquez was warned by Diesel not to worry and "cut to two years later, I'm in Paris and I go see 'Fast Five' because I want to see Vin Diesel go head-to-head with The Rock like everybody else, and then at the end, I see a tag ending with my picture in it."
Rodriguez credits Diesel for bringing her character back.
After the fight scene between Diesel and co-star Dwanye "The Rock" Johnson in the previous film, Diesel wanted to see a female version between Rodriquez and Gina Carano.
"And we really lucked out by having Gina Carano come, who is so reputable in the combat world," he told reporters. "And it's a pretty explosive scene."
Going up against an MMA fighter like Carano was intimidating for the 34-year-old actress.
"On paper, you look at a fight like that and you're like, 'OK, there's absolutely no way that I'm going to get out of this credibly against somebody like Gina Carano,'" Rodriguez said."''We're going to have to set this up where it's realistic.' So there was a lot of configuring it with the stunt guys to have my own street style compared to her tactical style. It was kind of like fight or flight, survival versus tactical combat."
With the sixth film of the franchise set to hit theaters, there is already talk for planning the seventh film.
