Inside the production of the new F1 film with Brad Pitt, Damson Idris and Lewis Hamilton
This last week in Abu Dhabi, this last night, the crew army is going up at sunset. They have been together for almost 18 months – and always do it. “No matter if it’s a good film or a bad film, a big script or a dog script,” said someone, “when the Vibe crew, the film is better.”
Bruckheimer underlines the same point, in his own way: “And this group! Everyone always gets along. I have had no HR call. It’s incredible.”
The peloton sets up a last sequence for Pitt, an impressive crane that follows Pitt while walking under the stands against an overview of fans heading for the track. When the crane, a 45 ‘scorpion, is stuck, you need nine guys, including the director of Oscario Miranda Oscariized photography, to build it up in position.
The scene is supposed to communicate: our lone wolf is not there for this pump and this circumstance.
Pitt obtains his Spritz Sweat and Champagne by Jean Black. The dozens of extras are part of the frame as if they were freed from a perfectly named support pen, ready for their moment.
After a few sockets, Kosinski is satisfied.
“It was cool,” said Pitt. “Yeah, it was good.”
Before midnight, it’s over for Pitt. They envelop it in front of the distribution and the crew.
Idris cannot believe it. “How do they envelop Brad Pitt in front of me?” He jokes with me later, thinking about this night. “He was like” hey, guy, you have my number. ” I’ll send you a text. I say to myself, “What do you mean you are going to send me a text?! Where are you going?” “”
There is a similar moment for their characters in the film – the heroes finally get along, but the lone wolf is in the next. I’m just looking for a new place to run.
The veteran
But before He leaves for good, they sneak up for a last session in the car. “I think they may have given me to give me pure sympathy so that it does not end at the end,” said Pitt later. “Lewis spoke about it, finding this groove as a driver where he could…. Time slowed down for him and he could see each corner, each crack as a point of rupture in the asphalt, each bump and just said that nobody could touch it and what a sublime, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as experience It’s for him. And I certainly felt my version, certainly the very last night. I think that because I had the additional night, it was like a gift and I was even freer because of it. And I went out several times and I just had the best sessions that I could get back into the car and I can feel absolute bliss – and I miss it.
After Abu Dhabi, production disperses in the wind. Kosinski ends a first film cup, but is sent to rush for a week during the Los Angeles forest fires. “So, the first time I watched the film throughout my laptop in a hotel room, evacuated,” he said. Not exactly how they wrote what Kosinski had described as a film “intended for Imax, the biggest screen possible.” Idris begins production on a new film with Cape Town. “I go through a phase of my life where I want to be in the homeland,” said Idris. And Hamilton is starting a new season, his first with Ferrari, winning a victory with his new team during the Sprint race in Shanghai.
Meanwhile, when we are talking again in the spring, Pitt is in a wonder of a house in the vast natural dream landscape of New Zealand rural, running his next film. It’s a Sunday, a day off. This day of leave, he is all alone on the other side of the world from which I had seen him for the last time. What do you do to make a new place at home? I ask.
“I am a bit of an architectural snob and I am a bit of a nature lover,” he says, “so I’m just looking for a very nice place for a new experience instead of trying to recreate the – I mean, I bring my own sheets. I have become a sweetness in a very young age, but that’s about it. ”
After spending so much time with Lewis and the other drivers now, what are they in common with a big movie star?
“There is an isolation,” says Pitt. “Even solitude when you don’t have the impression that things click. They usually lead to something larger and you can find a goal. But there is a defined insulation and it is not necessarily a negative, it is a company and a constant discussion with you and yourself to maintain this thing. And, yes, I think we are in pain. those The guys are so examined and this sport is so venerated and there are so many of us who think that we could do it too, simply because we drive a car quickly on the highway or something. They have so much shit. It’s shocking for me. They must have thicker skin than us.
