Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel is a minor, antagonistic character in the novel "最佳影星" inspired by the celebrity persona of Vin Diesel.

Personality
He has a very crooked personality where he believes himself to be the biggest star around. Even though he is just a small actor, his antics could even turn the likes of Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe and Harrison Ford shy.

Volume 2 (2000)
Vin Diesel obtained the role of Dominic Toretto in The Fast and the Furious. His role was originally just a supporting character but, through repeated script revisions, he turned it into one of the two protagonists. This was possible since he had a lot of power in the crew as he was backed by an investor who had invested $10 million in the film.

During the filming, Vin Diesel acted very arrogantly in the crew, always being late and asking to revise the script to emphasize his own character which earned him the ire of the entire cast and crew. Even though he wasn't named a producer, he had a lot of influence on the shooting as he had promised the director, Rob Cohen, that he would appoint him as the director for his next film Triple X, an $80 million production.

A fews days after Matthew Horner entered the crew to begin filming his scenes, he had a small argument with Vin Diesel that turned into a huge deal as Diesel held a grudge. During one of their action scenes together, Vin Diesel deliberately used too much force while attacking Matthew which didn't cause him much harm but rather made him quite angry. During the next scene where his character fought back, Matthew struck Vin Diesel with two body punches that left the latter wheezing on the floor.

Afterwards, an enraged Vin Diesel went to the film's producer and demanded that they fire Matthew and cut all his scenes. The director was against it since that would harm the film's quality but he didn't state his mind. After some thought, the producer decided to accept Vin Diesel's request though he was a bit upset at the latter's tone. The crew wanted to fire Matthew without giving any compensation while stating that he had deliberately harmed another actor, however, when Helen Hermann warned that she would ask the Screen Actors Guild to intervene, they finally relented and paid Matthew the entire $30,000 in liquidated damages.

Vin Diesel, however, was far from done and the next day invited Sean Daniel, the producer of of The Mummy Returns, in which Matthew had an important supporting role to coffee. He told Sean Daniel to fire Matthew from the film as if he was the latter's boss and was giving him an order. Needless to say, Sean Daniel was far from pleased and insulted Vin Diesel before leaving. He also informed executives of Universal Pictures about Vin Diesel and his attitude and suggested that they not work with him in the future which was actually what the executives had been planning to do.

Volume 3 (2001)
Vin Diesel appeared during the premiere of The Mummy Returns and attempted to cause a ruckus after seeing Matthew since he believed that he had gotten him kicked out of the sequel to The Fast and the Furious when it had actually been a decision from executives of Universal Pictures who were fed up of his annoying character. However, Brendan Fraser, the crew's self-proclaimed big brother, sent Vin Diesel off.