Brad Pitt surprised even Hamilton with his driving: it’s in his DNA F1 Magazine – F1online.sk

There is also one interesting thing related to the upcoming film about F1: Even if the pilot’s face cannot be seen while driving and professional pilots could stand in for the actors, Brad Pitt and Damson Idris driving alone in the car. Lewis Hamilton revealed how Pitt is doing behind the wheel.

The shooting of the new film is slowly moving towards the finish line. The Apex GP team will still appear at the remaining grand prix, but post-production work will take place over the winter and spring until the film hits cinemas in June 2025.

However, the preparations were much longer and, as producer Joseph Kosinski revealed a few weeks ago, they also included intensive driving training to prepare the main characters to drive in a modified Formula 2 single seater .

Iris Esquire he testified Lewis Hamilton about how they will be filmed, but also about Brad Pitt’s driving. The seven-time champion paid tribute to the famous actor. He looked at his path with his own eyes. “We went to the track in Los Angeles. I pulled him over, sat in the passenger seat and drove,” one of the film producers appeared.

“When I was younger, I used to be a riding coach. Besides racing, this is how I made extra money. I’ve been in the car with so many non-racers I can’t even count them.” continued the 39-year-old Briton, who, with so much experience, can guess who is sitting next to him behind the wheel. “So you can tell the good riders from the bad right away.”

Brad Pitt is said to be one of the talented ones. “He went on straight away and you could see he was there. It’s in his DNA, he just hasn’t had the chance to develop it the way we do. But, he has great potential.”

Lewis Hamilton this is also why he thinks Pitt could actually become a pilot. “Yes, but it will take time. In the end, there is no sign of a 50-year-old who would start the season and struggle against youth. But we were debating: How would you go about it? How intensively would he have to train to come back, fight and react just as quickly? We went into detail. “

When making the film, attention is also paid to detail in other matters. Lewis Hamilton, as one of the producers, is supposed to help eliminate possible errors in the script, so that even the strongest fans of the unit do not hold their heads, like in the movie from long ago, in June next year. venture with Sylvester Stallone.

Hamilton so when he was reading the script, he was tasked with pointing out the “stupid things” that shouldn’t be in Formula 1. “It’s racing script stuff or technical jargon that engineers use. However, it mainly concerned racing conditions, overtaking sequences, stops, strategies and the like. An accident could happen, after which the car hit a wall, spun out, fell back on its wheels and continued to drive. Things like that don’t happen in Formula 1.”

After inspection, the script had to be edited, although many things were correct. “Honor [Kruger] he did a lot of research, watched a lot of races, went to a bunch of them, and then wrote the script. Then we sat down with him and talked about what racing is all about. When he finished writing the script, I sat down with him and when things came up that didn’t seem real and didn’t belong in F1, I told him it was bullshit. We tried to make it as real as possible.”

“At the same time, I started a production company, so I’m a producer with these people,” boast in Stevenage, who could talk about other things. “I had the opportunity to be involved in all areas, so I was able to see that there was diversity in the team, that we had a woman at the stops, which has never happened on the track. “

“I wanted Hans Zimmer to work on the film, so we have Hans Zimmer. Joe [Kosinski] he was amazing about including me in everything,” said a happy Hamilton.