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"We don't have any CGI with any of the car stuff. I think it's a real experience when you see this car going through really fast really wild and you see me driving a lot of the times and also a big chase in downtown Atlanta. It's just incredible"

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There is a very 2000s-to-now anxiety hiding inside this breathless insistence on "no CGI": the fear that audiences have been trained to assume everything thrilling is fake. Sean William Scott isn’t just selling a stunt; he’s selling trust. The repetition of "really" and the loose, excited cadence read like a guy trying to convince you in real time, as if authenticity is something you have to argue for, not simply present.

The intent is promotional, sure, but the subtext is reputational. Scott, long associated with comedic slacker energy, positions himself as physically game and cinematically credible: "you see me driving" is a quiet rebuttal to the idea of actors as passengers in their own action scenes. It’s also a nod to the post-Bourne, post-Fast era where audiences have become connoisseurs of chase grammar. We don’t just want speed; we want proof of speed. Practical effects function like a certificate of authenticity, the way "live" used to on a concert poster.

The Atlanta detail matters because it’s not a generic backlot promise. Downtown streets signal stakes: permitting, crowds, risk, spectacle you can’t completely control. That touch of real-world friction is the marketing. "Incredible" lands as both awe and relief - the movie has something tangible in an age of weightless pixels, and Scott gets to be part of that tangibility.

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Scott, Sean William. (2026, January 16). We don't have any CGI with any of the car stuff. I think it's a real experience when you see this car going through really fast really wild and you see me driving a lot of the times and also a big chase in downtown Atlanta. It's just incredible. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-dont-have-any-cgi-with-any-of-the-car-stuff-i-107350/

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Scott, Sean William. "We don't have any CGI with any of the car stuff. I think it's a real experience when you see this car going through really fast really wild and you see me driving a lot of the times and also a big chase in downtown Atlanta. It's just incredible." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-dont-have-any-cgi-with-any-of-the-car-stuff-i-107350/.

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"We don't have any CGI with any of the car stuff. I think it's a real experience when you see this car going through really fast really wild and you see me driving a lot of the times and also a big chase in downtown Atlanta. It's just incredible." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-dont-have-any-cgi-with-any-of-the-car-stuff-i-107350/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Sean William Scott (born October 3, 1976) is a Actor from USA.

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