The Italian Job (2003)īefore you start reading me the riot act about remakes, let me first say that I agree, for the most part, that Hollywood should cease repeating great content. According to a BBC News investigation, his film career earned the estimated US $1.55 billion (£1.15 billion) in ticket sales from 2002 to 2017, making him one of the most bankable performers in the business. His acting career has been criticized for its lack of depth and diversity, but he has also been lauded for spearheading action cinema revivals in the 2000s and 2010s. In the latter, he has appeared as Deckard Shaw in Fast & Furious 6 (2013), Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), and Fast & Furious Presents Hobbs & Shaw (2019), as well as serving as a co-producer.

He went on to star in the ensemble action series The Expendables (2010–14) and the Fast & Furious franchise, which brought him even more financial success. However, he has also appeared in films such as Revolver (2005), Chaos (2005), In the Name of the King (2007) by Uwe Boll, 13 (2010), Blitz (2011), Killer Elite (2011), Hummingbird (2013), and Wild Card (2013), all of which were financially and critically unsuccessful (2015). He established himself as a Hollywood leading man after appearing in several heists and action thriller films, including The Italian Job (2003), Crank (2006), War (2007), The Bank Job (2008), The Mechanic (2011), Spy (2015), and Mechanic: Resurrection (2016). Statham was cast in Guy Ritchie's crime flicks Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2001) because of his previous professional experience working in market stalls (2000).ĭue to the financial success of these films, he was cast in the Transporter trilogy (2002–08) as Frank Martin. He was soon approached to model for French Connection, Tommy Hilfiger, and Levi's in different commercial campaigns. He was a member of the British national diving squad and competed for England at the 1990 Commonwealth Games as a diver. He started practicing Chinese martial arts, kickboxing, and karate recreationally in his teens while working at local market booths in Shirebrook, Derbyshire. He is renowned for his action-thriller roles for playing rough, irredeemable, and machiavellian characters, and he is typecast as the antihero. Jason Statham is an actor from the United Kingdom. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019).

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