The Hollywood Byte #35: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Actor Lucas Black (Sling Blade, Friday Night Lights) can be seen in Universal Studios Home Entertainment's DVD and HD-DVD release, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. The movie has also been translated into PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PSP games from Namco, as well as a best-selling cell phone game from I-Play.

"I think The Fast and the Furious video game will introduce more people to drifting and show people how cool it is to be able to do that," said Black, who learned how to drift on location in Tokyo. "They'll be able to do everything we did in the film in the game."

Although Black's likeness and voice aren't in the new video game, his cars from the film are.

"I played video games growing up, especially sports games and racing games," said Black. "As far as having a game based on a movie I've been in, that's pretty cool."

Black spent a lot of his free time on the set in Tokyo playing PSP.

"The producers actually gave us a PSP and some games," said Black. "I'd play that between takes and when we weren't shooting. I played Need for Speed Underground: Rivals a lot on PSP, which has a lot of drifting in it. It was fun to play because after learning how to drift and not being able to do it all the time...to be able to go into that fantasy world of drift racing on the video game was pretty awesome."

Although he didn't get a chance to check out Japan's huge video game arcades, he did find plenty of time to game when he was in his hotel room with co-star Bow Wow.