Vin Diesel as Riddick
Vin Diesel says that he prepared for the role of Riddick by becoming an recluse.
The actor will return to the big screen next week as he reprises the role of Richard B. Riddick for the first time since The Chronicles of Riddick back in 2004.
This time around the character reveals that he was keen to get the core of the character right, and he worked mostly alone to achieve that.
Speaking to Collider the actor said: "For this version, with where Riddick is now in this movie, and his state of mind in this movie, I went to the woods for four months and prepared by basically being a recluse.
"I prepared the inner core of the character. Because I was also producing it, it was so important to get that core character correct, so that I could easily tap into it while maintaining some kind of circumspect view of what was going on with the production, as a producer."
Riddick sees Diesel reunite with director David Twohy for what will be their third project together.
Diesel has already enjoyed big success this year with the release of Fast & Furious 6 - which saw him reprise the role of Dominic Toretto.
He is currently filming Guardians of the Galaxy, while a seventh Fast & Furious film is in the pipeline.
Riddick is released 4th September.
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