Solely a little bit of Jason Momoa’s “Quick X” character got here from the movie’s script. As Louis Leterrier put it in a Gizmodo interview:
“[Momoa] works, rewrites his dialogue, talks about character interplay, is so beneficiant with the opposite actors and, you understand, actually keen to play. So his willingness to play labored rather well with my envy to push it a bit of bit, to tweak the cursors and check out stuff.”
However the actor’s improv went past making an attempt totally different line readings and ad-libs. Based on Momoa, who spoke to ScreenRant lately, there was an enormous battle deliberate between Dante and Vin Diesel’s Dom, however the actor was eager so as to add a twist to the scene. Momoa reveled in having Dante get pleasure from taking a beating from Dom — the person partly answerable for the dying of Dante’s father again in “Quick 5.”
As Momoa put it, “I believe it is far more fascinating, he will get the s*** kicked out of him, and he loves it. To get off on being beat up and simply so he can get near [Dom] as a result of he is obtained the higher hand.” And never solely did Momoa play up his character’s perverse enjoyment throughout this second, he additionally got here up with a memorable piece of improv that really made it into the ultimate minimize. He added:
“I misplaced a molar. I by no means took my knowledge enamel out as a result of I am a wussy and I am petrified of dentists. And so I cracked my molar. And so I’ve this hole right here and I used to be like, ‘This could be humorous when you simply beat the s*** out of me and I am going to pull my tooth out and [say] ‘dick or poopy’ and simply throw it at him […] And we simply made all that up.”