our next guest stars in A New Motion Picture entitled find me guilty it opens Friday please
welcome Vin Diesel good to see you incredible I'm fine thank you very much uh before we talk
about the the movie and other stuff and by the way do you know anything about diesel engines
I have a feeling I'm getting set up over here no no no I I think the compression
the combustion takes place but purely by compression in a diesel engine
well I that I mean that's not the only benefit of diesel [Laughter]
I mean I mean it is low maintenance yeah which I can identify with as you could cleaner burning
fuel is I think no spark plugs no spark plugs but I want to know about your mother uh is an
astrologist yes is that like a just a hobby with her or does she does for a living or
for like friends very very interesting that you say that and I'll tell you why
I just had a conversation with my mother and she said then you've got to set the record straight
I'm a retired social worker that loves astrology oh okay all right so she had a another career and
now this is just something she does well she loves this Trilogy she's been doing it forever yeah and
does she do you find that what she reports on you to be accurate or does she not report on you
I asked her that too I said Mom is everything that you thought was going to happen to me
did it happen and she said it was very hard to do your chart because you have a twin brother
I have a twin brother
yeah David's like that doesn't really make sense no it doesn't uh but would that make it harder or
would it be I think it would make it my mother's actually here just for the record if we have to
ask her we can always ask Mom all right good she is here but it seemed like with it with a twin it
just it just there's uh there's less paperwork in astrology with the twin am I not right about that
the 14 minutes makes all the difference oh yeah I guess I guess you don't traditionally
come out yeah well we didn't come out holding hands I came out 14 minutes earlier and and
do you ever talk to her about important things in your life regarding astrology
do I ever talk to about important things in my life yes yes uh regarding astrology
you know if you have to make a decision about something do you
ever just for the fun of it find out what she has to say about it
you mean like love or something again anything but professionally personally
well I I consult with my mother but it's usually not in the realm of astrology it's just mother son
right just that's fine and the and the astrology aspect of it she explains as being this this
process that she uses to help you understand your family better to understand your relationships
better right it's actually a good thing right well it's good she should do your chart
and is your you have a twin brother I have a twin brother twin brother also an actor is
that true no no no he is a editor he he uh is a very big editor uh in publishing that
kind of editing no in film filmetting he's a film editor yeah how about that yeah isn't
that fascinating that you we have twins here 14 minutes apart uh one is an actor and the
other actually edits the the film in which you might appear it's the craziest thing
[Laughter]
um
uh let's talk a little bit about your uh love for motorcycles do you have
many motorcycles do you ride often do you ride more on a motorcycle or more
in a car in California probably more in a motorcycle in New York what is it
well I used to to go to school every day at Hunter College with my motorcycle with
my GSXR 750. and now I've been getting into ATVs the four-wheel kind of thing yeah yeah
but to to me having been on some of those four-wheelers they they seem less
predictable certainly that's actually true more dangerous yeah than motorcycles yeah uh
yeah they're more dangerous than artists and you you're not supposed to ride them on the
streets and highways they're really nice yeah yeah they're not all off-road yeah so if you go
upstate and you see an ATV 20 feet above the ground it's usually yeah I'm doing jumps and
stuff have you injured yourself at all doing that no thank God yeah well be very careful do you wear
a helmet you got to wear a helmet yeah I think you should wear a helmet on anything a bicycle
oh he's pro helmet are you uh are you uh uh you're not married are you no are you are they engaged
[Laughter]
and do you uh I would like you probably have a lot of girls that you you date
and stuff right that David come on you know me I like the kind of guy
that comes up and says oh my God I'm so in love right yeah [Laughter] okay
uh well what kind of a thing like on a date uh can you take us like through what would it be like
from the minute you pick it so like somebody you would like a first date what's like a first date
um First State first date uh 16 years old
what wait a minute no no no no no not not your first date ever what are you talking about I mean
no wait a second no no just like it's easy just somebody you might meet leaving the theater
what would that what would that might be this yeah like when I leave here anywhere anywhere
just a a lovely woman that you think oh let's do something let's well then what
do you do you go to dinner and you go dead dancing do you have drinks what what goes on
wow
um huh I'm a regular meat and potatoes type of guy yeah I just you know go to
dinner yeah do something simple get to know the person right introduce it to my mom yeah
what about when on Valentine's Day when you were 16 what about that that's cool okay
I was 16 years old it was my first Valentine's date and I just started seeing this girl
so I wanted to do something romantic so I went over here at Times Square waited online for
about four hours to get these tickets for Dream Girls oh sure then I went and bought flowers
and I put on a nice suit and I went to pick her up knock on the door she's not there
so I so I'm waiting outside her house because we have to go to see Dream Girls for this very
important and romantic Valentine's and she pulls up with a guy oh ouch
now you know I'm cool so I gotta so I go over the guy bing bang bang I'm joking
she said it was driving lessons oh that's funny that's good that's cute
it was probably the driver's ed guy right yeah yeah I mean you've you must have heard
at some point in time someone give you the excuse of driving lessons
uh the uh let's see find me guilty uh opens on uh Friday
and well I want to show a clip here tell folks what we're going to see okay okay
um that's a good question uh we're going to see a I believe we're going to see the
clip where Jackie donorsio is telling the court that he's going to defend himself
and again this opens March 17th okay and you're Jackie I play Jackie donor show I
am Jackie donation okay let's take a look find find me guilty right there
it's a film The Count of count of in the 80s yeah it's it's based on a a an actual trial
that happened in the 80s which was the largest Mafia trial in history uh 20 defendants um 76
accounts that happened over two years uh and we won't tell people what the outcome is and we won't
tell what the outcome but the best thing about the whole process as you know was working with
Sydney lamatt a tremendous director incredible director a dream in fact when I first directed
multifacial the short film that I directed uh to get the confidence to direct the film I read
a book called making movies by Sydney Lamont and this was like 12 years ago so then when he asked
me to play Jackie donor show it was like a very nice full circle uh it's a find me guilty it opens
on Friday I give my best to your brother and your mother yes Vin Diesel ladies and gentlemen [Music]
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