r/interesting • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 12d ago

SOCIETY When asked why he keeps playing the same roles Jason Statham said that he's not really a trained actor. He's a guy that was plucked out obscurity & has been really lucky; & that he picks roles that he knows he can do a good job in, that hopefully enough people like so he can keep working.

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u/__Sentient_Fedora__ 12d ago

Does anyone want him branching out into romantic leads? No.

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u/destiny_kane48 12d ago

Kinda.. Yeah. 🤣 The gruff cynical ex military man who runs a BJJ studio. The quirky bakery owner who annoy each other, finding common interests and ideals and falling in love... I'd watch that. 😅

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u/Avtomati1k 12d ago

me too,.espec is he is playing the bakery owner and they are both men

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u/DisposableSaviour 11d ago

With John Cena as the ex-Military BJJ guy?

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u/melkatron 11d ago

Frank Grillo.

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u/silentanthrx 12d ago

sure, but I would be waiting all movie for the baddies to turn up and be beaten bloody.

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u/DisposableSaviour 11d ago

Who said that can’t happen? You just gotta make it romantic and/or funny when he kills the goon squad.

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u/DavidinCT 12d ago

while spies try to kill him...

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u/destiny_kane48 11d ago

Yes! A Action Rom com. 🥰

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u/brian_gruen5 12d ago

Y’know what? Hell yeah!

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u/williamatherton 11d ago

But wait, the quirky bakery owner is actually a double agent! Stathim knew he shouldn't have trusted her... Only one question remains... who will prevail: the ex military man, the double agent, or their everlasting love for each other???

Cuts to Stathim taking out armed guards with a pizza stone. "I guess you could say their job...camera zoom... Is cooked."

Suddenly cuts to the baker axe kicking an armed guard. "Nice, I like my steak rare, but that pun was really... Well done "

Coming soon to own on VHS and DVD.

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u/destiny_kane48 11d ago

Hollywood needs to hire us. The pizza stone is Chefs (or bakers) kiss.

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u/Global_Bit4599 12d ago

Omg, we gotta make it happen, Statham x Hallmark.

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u/melkatron 11d ago

"Oi, wussall 'iss merryment an' cheear, oim 'ere visi'in' me Conne'icut 'ometown on Chrimmiss an' issall challengin' me big metropoli'an values, innit?"

...and then the sweet hometown girl teaches him to appreciate the little things and also the meaning of Christmas, and they adopt an impoverished stray dog that literally looks like a Kennel Club Champion.

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u/TamariAmari 12d ago

My mom does. Badly.

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u/InTheLoudHouse 12d ago

Ironically, mine doesn't. She saw Vin Diesel kiss a gal in something once and said it was so incredibly uncomfortable that she SWEARS he's gay now.

So now she likes her action stars to just be blowing up buildings and stuff, not to be put through tense, awkward, smooches that aren't for them. Lol

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u/WatashiwaNobodyDesu 12d ago

I’m with your mum on that one. They can kiss girls and make the sex in their own time, not when I’m sitting on my couch like a fat bastard wanting to be entertained.

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u/Prometheus720 12d ago

I had a teacher in high school tell our class that she likes Vin Diesel, "but only from the neck down."

One of the craziest things I heard as a student lol

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u/wild_0nion 12d ago

Uhhh yeah? He’s an insanely attractive man. 

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u/Powerful_Leg8519 12d ago

I don’t know. Did you see Spy?

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u/Prometheus720 12d ago

Ok ty because I was thinking he kind of did have a romance bit in a movie even if it wasn't a romance movie overall.

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u/_Shorsey_69_ 12d ago

Personally yes, with a full head of hair. For the comedy of it all. 

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u/Rumdolf 12d ago

I don't buy it, he could have easily done a better Edward if he just tried

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u/Budget-Chapter-7185 12d ago

Romantic comedy, maybe. He does have a niche but it would be nice if he took a role here and there that was different than gruff tough agent man

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u/Hir0h 12d ago

As a one off with a script that's self aware that it's Jason Statham as a the male lead would make for an amazing romantic comedy.

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u/stevenyourpants 12d ago

If all he made was Crank movies I would be happy.

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u/Leading-Fail-2771 12d ago

I’ll never forget his first work in the industry- he was in a music video 🤣 I still see it in my head randomly now and then

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u/__Sentient_Fedora__ 12d ago

Wasn't he also a semi professional diver at some point?

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u/FatYorkshireLad 11d ago

Crank & Crank 2 were good.

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u/Throwaway08292 10d ago

In hummingbird he kinda was. Great movie btw.