LUCAS BLACK SPEAKS JAPANESE FOR FAST AND THE FURIOUS…

(VIDEO) The star of The Fast and The Furious:Tokyo Drift learned to speak Japanese while filming there.

For a taste of what cars really look like when they’re racing check out The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Lucas Black stars as Sean Boswell whose driving record consists of seven speeding tickets in 3 states. In order to avoid a jail sentence he leaves on a jet plane from Arizona to Tokyo. Lucas talks about trying not to get lost in translation while in Japan.

Growing up in the small southern town of Speake Alabama Lucas went through a bit of culture shock while on location in the Far East.

“You know the first couple of times I had to speak Japanese it didn’t have to be perfect. It could be all mangled up because it was the first time being there but I mean it went real well. It wasn’t too hard, just kind of saying it over and over a couple of times. It was fairly easy for me because thank god there wasn’t a whole monologue or a whole paragraph. It was just a couple of lines here and there so I can deal with that.”

When it comes to drifting, an underground type of racing which combines brutal speed on hairpin turns, Lucas’ favorite car was the Nissan Z which he used for practice rounds on the track. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift opens Friday nationwide.rn

“You know this is a different experience coming from a small town in Alabama I’d never thought I’d be in Tokyo. It’s a humongous city and lots of people. It’s cool to see at first and then learn about the people and learn about the things there but I got homesick quick.”