Vin Diesel Calls Helen Mirren 'Family' in Heartfelt Post: She's 'That Auntie You Love to Talk to'

For Vin Diesel, it's each astir family, and that includes Helen Mirren.

The Fast and Furious actor, 57, shared a heartfelt station to Instagram connected Wednesday, May 28, arsenic he raved astir his relationship pinch nan Academy Award winner.

"Over nan weekend, I heard from 1 of my favourite group connected nan planet," Diesel wrote successful his caption. "Helen Mirren… that Auntie you emotion to talk to, who has seen everything and ever has an outlook connected life based connected experience, contented and compassion."

Diesel — who first joined forces pinch Mirren, 79, successful 2017's The Fate of nan Furious earlier her later appearances successful 3 different Fast-adjacent films — wrote that it was "interesting really fitting nan characteristic she portrays successful our saga is." In nan franchise, Mirren plays Magdalene "Queenie" Shaw, nan Shaw family matriarch. She astir precocious portrayed nan characteristic successful 2023's Fast X.

"We wanted a European matriarch to grow our universe. Someone uniquely independent and raw, who witnessed brotherhood and its complexities arsenic nan mother of nan Shaw brothers," Diesel, who plays Dominic Toretto successful nan series, wrote. "Her synchronicity pinch nan Dom characteristic is thing nan assemblage gravitates to clip and clip again. It was her aft each who came up pinch nan statement 'you’re my favourite Yankee.' Haha."

"I americium blessed that she is simply a portion of our mythology… but moreover much grateful that she is simply a portion of my family disconnected screen," Diesel concluded. "All love."

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In his carousel post, nan Fast character shared snaps of himself and Mirren done nan years, filming scenes for nan franchise and laughing pinch each different during promotional events. He closed nan station pinch an image of nan brace stepping together, limb successful arm.

Mirren antecedently told The Hollywood Reporter successful 2022 that she "begged" Diesel to get her progressive successful nan franchise erstwhile they were first introduced astatine a usability years before.

"And I was shameless: 'Oh God, I'd conscionable emotion to beryllium successful 1 of your movies! Please fto maine beryllium successful it.' And past Vin, pinch that beautiful, heavy sound of his, said: 'I'll spot what I tin do.' And he did it for me," Mirren said, adding that nan character "found this awesome small domiciled for me, which was perfect."

"I'd conscionable ne'er done thing for illustration that earlier — 1 of those big, large movies," she said. "And, successful my vanity, I conscionable loved driving and really wanted to do my ain driving successful a accelerated car."

Mirren opened up further astir her chemistry pinch Diesel during her screen communicative for PEOPLE's Beautiful Issue that aforesaid year.

"Chemistry is inexplicable — it conscionable is. You put 2 group together you deliberation — and movies perpetually make this correction — oh, nan chemistry's going to beryllium fantastic! And past it's disastrous," Mirren said. "Even very absorbing people, group who person awesome chemistry offscreen to nan grade of maybe, cough, excuse me, moreover having an matter aliases marrying each other, onscreen person nary chemistry whatsoever. Whereas nan astir random group conscionable person chemistry. And I adored Vin from nan infinitesimal I met him."

As Diesel explained astatine nan time, Mirren has "a charisma that is timeless."

"She has looks to termination and ever has. She has a jovial spirit," he said. "But I deliberation nan point that is astir charismatic astir Dame Helen Mirren is nan measurement she makes you feel. She ever makes you consciousness appreciated and loved. And for that I emotion her forever."