Actor Ali Fazal made a cameo appearance in the 2015 Hollywood blockbuster ‘Furious 7.’ While fans in India welcomed his appearance, the actor recently disclosed that his sequences were removed from the finished picture. Actor Paul Walker’s untimely death during production prompted the directors to change the film and add more tributes to the late actor.
Following the actor’s death in 2013, the movie was put on hold. His brothers stepped in as his body doubles to finish the movie and give his character a fitting send-off after a three-month delay.
Ali spoke on Cyrus Broacha’s podcast, ‘Cyrus Says,’ and said, “I was supposed to have a race with Vin Diesel but it got canceled because we lost Paul Walker.” Recalling the first day of the shoot in Abu Dhabi, Ali said, “It was the most depressing day. The first day of the shoot, coming back after three months of break because Paul Walker had died. Everyone was just going through the motions and that is why the race got canceled because they had to accommodate a lot of tribute kind of stuff for him and there was this huge Paul puppet, which was this project they had made, they created him out of thin air.”
Ali has worked on multiple global productions like ‘Death on the Nile,’ ‘Victoria and Abdul,’ and most recently, ‘Kandahar.’ On the work front, Ali's next project is ‘Mirzapur 3.’