Vin Diesel and D&D

Aug 13, 2006 17:19

"As a teenager, Diesel was a skilled breakdancer and appeared in an instructional video on breakdancing. He appeared as a dancer in music videos for the rapper Kwamé, who is his cousin.[1] Diesel is a long time fan and player of Dungeons & Dragons and other role playing games, a fact that he proudly states in various interviews.[2] He occasionally makes reference to D&D in his films, such as in xXx where one of the tattoos on Xander Cage (Diesel's character) reads "Melkor," the name of one of Diesel's old player characters. (Melkor is also the original name of the Satan-like character in The Silmarillion and other Tolkien stories.) It has been said that his portrayal of Richard Riddick in the Pitch Black series of movies and games is based somewhat on this favorite character, a Drow "witch-hunter" who was a loner, and that Diesel has the character's image tattooed on his leg. He has also written the foreword to the commemorative book 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of D&D, a collection of stories and essays which chronicles the history of D&D."

i will no longer make fun of any man who plays D&D... because Vin Diesel is a BAD ASS
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