&imwidth=800&imheight=600&format=webp&quality=medium "Cannes Film Festival 2026: Vin Diesel breaks down during ’Fast & Furious’ screening, remembers Paul Walker: 'I'm going to go shed a tear real quick'")
It was an emotional moment for Vin Diesel when the first Fast and the Furious movie was screened at Cannes, marking the film’s 25th anniversary. In honour of the classic film franchise, a special midnight screening of the movie was organised.
On Wednesday, May 13, Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster, along with Meadow Walker, the daughter of the late Fast actor Paul Walker, walked the red carpet at the Palais.
’Fast & Furious’ screening, Vin Diesel remembers Paul Walker
At 11:55 PM, Diesel walked out at the Fast & Furious Cannes anniversary screening with his co-stars Rodriguez and Brewster. For the special night, Diesel wore a custom jacket, with “Fast Forever” over it. What made the screening even more special was the presence of Meadow.
For the special midnight screening, the venue near the Grand Lumière Theatre was packed with people, onlookers, media, and photographers, of course, all there to see the stars and the blockbuster, which Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux hailed as a “classic.”
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For the night, the actor was dressed in a suave black suit, with a bedazzled jacket featuring the words “Fast Forever” in rhinestones.
Inside the theatre ahead of the screening, Diesel said,''I’ve never seen a midnight screening like this in my whole life. It’s not like this movie hasn’t been out for a minute.”
When it comes to, Fast and Furious, Diesel couldn’t help but talk about his late co-star Walker, who died in 2013 at age 40. And that was the moment when
”This is a film where brotherhood was introduced to our millennium, by myself and my brother Pablo,” said Diesel. “The person that was not going to let me come alone here to represent that brotherhood was Meadow Walker.”
"I'm going to go shed a tear real quick," he added as he got emotional.
Not only Diesel, but Brewster, Rodriguez, and Walker were wiping away tears as the packed auditorium honoured them with a four-minute standing ovation.
“It’s so hard for me to watch it because there’s so many moments in this movie that you see, that I see differently,” Diesel added. “The scene that you see, I see the moment Pablo told me he had a one-year-old daughter.” Meadow and Diesel shared an emotional hug as the crowd clapped.
Producer Neal H. Mortiz and Universal chairman Donna Langley, were also in attendance.
The first Fast & Furious film was released in 2001.
