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\"There’s so many different directions you could go. And I remember John Cena coming into this Dom Shrine that I had where I would kind of go to meditate and train and start getting into that Dom state of mind,\" he continued. \"And I remember John coming in and ... call this crazy, but I remember feeling as though Pablo, Paul Walker, had sent him in.\"

\"I remember talking to Justin that night and saying, ‘My gut and my heart feels like this was meant to be,’\" he added.

Cena joins Diesel and returning cast members Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Nathalie Emmanuel and Jordana Brewster, along with Sung Kang, Helen Mirren, Kurt Russell and Charlize Theron.

\"F9\" opens June 25.

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