Brad Pitt’s ‘F1’ costar reveals his on-set behaviour: ‘OH MY GOD!’
Brad Pitt left an enduring impression on his F1 co-star, each on set and past.
In a current interview, Damson Idris laid all of it naked about what it was like working alongside the Combat Membership star within the upcoming System 1-inspired racing film.
The 33-year-old actor performs Joshua “Noah” Pearce, a proficient rookie driver who joins the fictional Apex Grand Prix group (APXGP). His character is mentored by Pitt’s function, Sonny Hayes, a retired F1 champion returning to the game to assist the struggling group.
In the course of the candid dialog with Individuals, the British actor revealed that the mentor-mentee bond his character shares with Pitt, 61, within the movie mirrors the one they fashioned in actual life, saying it was “exactly the same.”
“It was a seamless dynamic between us. As soon as they’d yell ‘Cut,’ we both sat at our seats and giggled,” he recollects. “He’d be telling me stories of when he first met Prince and Sidney Poitier. And I’m like, ‘Oh my God, this is just too iconic, you’re a walking monument.'”
Idris continues to rave over the two-time Oscar winner, describing him as “the most humble” and a “brilliant actor” who needed his costars to win, “And he did that for me the entire movie, made a point of having the two characters be equals, so I’m incredibly indebted to him, and I can’t wait for people to see it.”
Moreover, F1—filmed at a number of real-life F1 Grand Prix occasions in 2023 and 2024, with real-life racer Lewis Hamilton working as a producer on the film—is slated to hit the theatres on June 27.
