Golden Globes producer react to unscripted Vin Diesel-Dwayne Johnson moment

Golden Globes producers have confirmed that the exchange between Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson was impromptu and unexpected.

The telecast’s executive producer, Glenn Weiss, was speaking to Variety when the conversation turned to Diesel's unexpected shoutout to his fellow actor on the stage of the 2025 Golden Globe.

"Hi Dwayne..." Diesel said and smiled, glancing at the 52-year-old actor before presenting the award. The cameras cut to Johnson, who reacted with a smile.

Responding to the exchange, Weiss said “It kind of keeps you gripped, and even you in the press room, us in the truck, are going, ‘Wait, what? What’s happening?'”

He continued, “At that point, there’s a live event taking place, and our job is to bring it to you and let you decipher it. What is the exchange going on between them? I think it’s really important to show what’s happening in the room.”

Diesel’s shoutout followed reports that he and Johnson didn’t get along and rumors of an alleged feud beginning in 2016 after they completed The Fate of the Furious.

During August that year, Johnson had posted a now-deleted Instagram raving about the film crew and his female costars but called out some unnamed male costars.

"There's no other franchise that gets my blood boiling more than this one," he wrote at the time. "My female costars are always amazing and I love 'em. My male costars, however, are a different story. Some conduct themselves as stand-up men and true professionals, while others don't."

He added at the time, "The ones that don't are too chicken s*** to do anything about it anyway. Candy a****. When you watch this movie next April and it seems like I'm not acting in some of these scenes and my blood is legit boiling—you're right.”

Surprisingly, Diesel turned down the allegations and asserted that the two were "close."

"I think some things may be blown out of proportion. I don't think that was his intention,” he said of Johnson's statement. “I know he appreciates how much I work this franchise. In my house, he's Uncle Dwayne."

Johnson briefly exited the franchise in 2021. That October, he told Vanity Fair that he only agreed to appear in 2017's The Fate of the Furious if he didn't have to share any scenes with Diesel.

Two years later, Johnson announced his return and the actors seemingly mended their relationship.