Bob’s Market in Los Angeles.Photo: Barry King/Alamy
TheFast & Furiousfilms have made Los Angeles' Angelino Heights famous as the area where Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) owns Bob’s Market and lives, but the real-life residents of the neighborhood have grown tired of the attention the franchise brings day in and day out.
As of Monday, some Angelino Heights residents are planning to protest Friday’s shoot for the upcoming sequelFast X, according toVariety.
FilmLA sent a notice to members of the community that saysFast Xwill be filming in the neighborhood from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday in front of the Toretto house, which will include “simulated emergency services activity, aerial photography, wetting down of street and atmospheric smoke,” according toVariety.
FilmLA, which is responsible for shooting permits in the city, toldVarietyMonday that a shooting permit had not been yet been finalized.
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Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto inF9(2021).Universal Pictures
One resident, Hellen Kim, toldVarietythat she has witnessed severalhit-and-run collisionsbetween cars as a result.
“Someone’s going to get killed,” she toldVariety. “Sooner or later.”
Kim’s husband, Robert Howard, toldVarietythat his 90-year-old mother “gets scared at night” due to the loud noise from street racers in the area.
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“There’s kids in the neighborhood right on that corner,” he added. “It shouldn’t be allowed.”
Another resident whoVarietyreported did not want his name used said someone once pointed a gun at him when he asked him to stop running his car during the middle of the day.
“In the middle of the daytime I’m trying to work in my office, somebody’s whipping around making all kinds of noise with their car, and I come out and I’m yelling, ‘Would you do this in front of your grandma’s house?’ And some kid’s like, ‘What did you say to me?’ And pulls out a gun and pointed at me,” the resident alleged. “I’m standing on my porch and he’s on the opposite side of the street. So I wasn’t scared for my life. But anytime someone pulls a gun, it’s a serious thing.”
Universal Pictures did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment Tuesday.
TheFast Xprotest comes as the United States Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administrationissued a reportin May that estimated 42,915 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2021 — a 10.5% increase from 2020’s 38,824 fatalities.
Last year’s projections stand as the highest number of such fatalities since 2005, according to the NHTSA.
On Aug. 6, Diesel, 55,shared a photo on Instagramof himself on set forFast X, on which he complimented the production.
“We’ve come a long way … our crew, our cast, our studio has never stopped reaching higher. Most importantly, you never stopped believing in us,” he wrote in the post’s caption. “Thank you. Hope to make you proud. All love, Always.”
source: people.com
