--- description: Paul Walker died in a 2013 car crash title: Watch Vin Diesel's Emotional Tribute to Paul Walker image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Vin Diesel's Emotional Tribute to Paul Walker  by [Alice Park](/author/alice-park/)  ## Alice Park Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Mar 21, 2015 2:35 PM CUT  by [Alice Park](/author/alice-park/)  ## Alice Park Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Mar 21, 2015 2:35 PM CUT Vin Diesel said this week that “I lost my friend” when Paul Walker died in a 2013 car crash. “When the tragedy happened, I lost my friend,” the actor said of his late _Furious 7_ co-star during an advance screening in Los Angeles. “I lost my brother.” “This was a very, very personal and important film for us,” Diesel said. “It was in some ways the hardest movie I ever had to do.” Walker, 40, was killed in a car crash in November 2013 during a break in filming. His two brothers and stand-ins replaced Walker to complete the movie. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3753322/furious-7-vin-diesel-paul-walker/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3753322/furious-7-vin-diesel-paul-walker/"},"headline":"Watch Vin Diesel's Emotional Tribute to Paul Walker","datePublished":"2015-03-21T14:35:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:20:12.259Z","description":"Walker died in a 2013 car crash","url":"https://time.com/3753322/furious-7-vin-diesel-paul-walker/","keywords":["movies","Vin Diesel","Paul Walker","Movie"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alice Park","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/alice-park/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3753322/furious-7-vin-diesel-paul-walker/","name":"Watch Vin Diesel's Emotional Tribute to Paul Walker"}}]}] ```