Recently, the makers of Brad Pitt's upcoming racing movie F1 released the trailer that has amped up the excitement factor. As the film, directed by Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick, Oblivion), gears up for release on June 27, Pitt's co-star Simone Ashley (Bridgerton) opened up about the adrenaline-pumping experience on the film with the actor and her other co-stars Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, and Javier Bardem.
In an interview with Who What Wear, Ashley said the experience was exhilarating. “It was amazing, the adrenaline. It was kind of like theater. It felt so live… You hear the crowd, the fireworks and the cars. Everything’s just so fast-paced and noisy, and we’re all together as a little unit. It was just one of the craziest things I think I’ve ever been part of.”
Ashley feels grateful to be part of the film, and shooting at the real races was quite a challenge, in terms of the logistics. "You had to work as a team. Sometimes, we literally had one take for certain shots. Like, you’d see on the call sheet eight minutes to get this one thing because we were shooting alongside the races,” she said.
The Apple TV+ backed film, made in collaboration with all the ten Formula 1 teams, sees Pitt returning to the sports genre, after the last notable venture into similar territory in Moneyball over a decade ago.
The plot, too, seems to share some thematic resemblance to Kosinski's last film, the Tom Cruise-led Top Gun: Maverick, in terms of having a veteran in his respective field looking to come back in an arena populated with youngsters. Idris plays his young competitor in the Formula 1 circuit.
