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Damson Idris recalls why he was horrified while shooting F1 scene with Brad Pitt
Washington DC [US], June 20 (ANI): Actor Damson Idris recalled why he was horrified while shooting a scene for a sports drama film 'F1' with his co-star and onscreen mentor Brad Pitt, reported People. In the Formula 1 racing film, Idris, 33, portrays rookie driver Joshua Pearace, who Sonny Hayes (played by Brad Pitt) mentors after he comes out of retirement. During his appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Idris joked that he was worried about losing his job after filming one particularly "rageful" scene, reported People. "It's so funny working with Brad. He's such a beautiful human being, such a giving actor. We once did a scene where I had to scream in his face, and it was the biggest scene for me. I was so nervous," shared Idris He continued, sharing, "In between the takes, I spat in Brad Pitt's face." "It was an accident. It was a rageful scene," said Damson, saying that he "watched the spit go to Brad," who had a shocked reaction. However, Pitt handled the incident like a pro, Idris added. "And then he kept going, and in my head I'm like, 'Oh my gosh. I just spat on Brad Pitt's face.' I was like, 'I'm going to lose my job now.' And I watched the spit the whole take, it was just there dribbling down," reported People. After host Stephen Colbert referred to the actor as "This really promising, up-and-coming new guy named Brad Pitt," Idris replied, saying, "He is good. He has a really bright future, that guy," He continued, "I hope he sticks around." He also recalled when he thought he came very close to meeting Pitt before his own Hollywood career took off. "I used to work at the Lyceum Theatre. I was an usher there in London," he said, noting that he thought Pitt had attended a production of The Lion King there, reported People. "The reason I worked there is because I wanted to spy on actors and try and learn, be a sponge. And one day Brad Pitt comes in to watch the play, and I'm at the back working. So I rush out, 'Oh my gosh, Brad Pitt's here.' And I don't catch him. I see blonde hair, blue jeans and some tan boots just walk out the door. I said, 'Wow, one day I'm going to work with him,' " Idris said. "I told Brad the story. I said, 'Hey, when I was younger, I saw you. You came to The Lion King.' He was like, 'I've never seen The Lion King,' " he said. Idris also shared once that he and Pitt drove the cars for their roles. "We drove up to 180 miles per hour," he said, revealing that he "tried" to race against Pitt. "Brad is really fast. He is just such an amazing adrenaline junkie. He rides bikes." While talking about his training for the role, Idris said it lasted about four months. "And it took us around two years to make this movie," he joked. "I had two years of F1 experience under my belt. Technically, I'm probably faster than Lewis Hamilton," reported People.
Time of India
an hour ago
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- Time of India
"It was a rageful scene...": Damson Idris recalls spitting on Brad Pitt; reveals he was horrified
Damson Idris , the 33-year-old actor who starred alongside Brad Pitt in 'F1,' revealed that he thought he was going to lose his job after accidentally spitting on the 61-year-old actor in a rage-filled scene. 'In between the takes, I spat in Brad Pitt's face.' In an appearance during an interview with The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, June 18, Damson confessed the quite an uncomfortable shoot while filming the upcoming film 'F1' with the 'Fight Club' actor. 'It's so funny working with Brad. He's such a beautiful human being, such a giving actor. And we once did a scene where I had to scream in his face, and it was like the biggest scene for me. I was so nervous," Idris stated, before admitting, 'In between the takes, I spat in Brad Pitt's face.' 'It was an accident. It was a rageful scene,' the British actor explained, adding that he had to watch the spit landing on Pitt's face, who certainly had a shocking reaction. However, Pitt handled it well and continued to act. Damson Idris was worried about losing his job... 'And then he kept going, and in my head I'm like, 'Oh my gosh. I just spat on Brad Pitt's face.' I was like, 'I'm going to lose my job now.' And I watched the spit the whole take, it was just there dribbling down,' the 'Outside the Wire' actor added. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Brass Krishna Idols For Prosperity & Protection In Life Luxeartisanship Shop Now Undo Elsewhere in the interview, Damson revealed that he and Pitt used to race the cars, driving 180 miles an hour. He recalled racing against the 61-year-old Hollywood actor, but Brad is a fast racer. 'Brad is really fast. He is just such an amazing adrenaline junkie. He rides bikes,' Idris said. About training for the role, Damson said that he trained for about four months, and it took two years to make the film. 'I had two years of F1 experience under my belt. Technically, I'm probably faster than Lewis Hamilton,' he joked.
Time of India
an hour ago
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- Time of India
Damson Idris recalls why he was horrified while shooting 'F1' scene with Brad Pitt
Actor Damson Idris recalled why he was horrified while shooting a scene for a sports drama film 'F1' with his co-star and onscreen mentor Brad Pitt , reported People. In the Formula 1 racing film, Idris, 33, portrays rookie driver Joshua Pearace, who Sonny Hayes (played by Brad Pitt) mentors after he comes out of retirement. During his appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Idris joked that he was worried about losing his job after filming one particularly "rageful" scene, reported People. "It's so funny working with Brad. He's such a beautiful human being, such a giving actor. We once did a scene where I had to scream in his face, and it was the biggest scene for me. I was so nervous," shared Idris He continued, sharing, "In between the takes, I spat in Brad Pitt's face." "It was an accident. It was a rageful scene," said Damson, saying that he "watched the spit go to Brad," who had a shocked reaction. However, Pitt handled the incident like a pro, Idris added. "And then he kept going, and in my head I'm like, 'Oh my gosh. I just spat on Brad Pitt's face.' I was like, 'I'm going to lose my job now.' And I watched the spit the whole take, it was just there dribbling down," reported People. After host Stephen Colbert referred to the actor as "This really promising, up-and-coming new guy named Brad Pitt," Idris replied, saying, "He is good. He has a really bright future, that guy," He continued, "I hope he sticks around." by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Wärmepumpe 2025: Technikwunder stellt den Heizungsmarkt auf den Kopf thermondo Undo He also recalled when he thought he came very close to meeting Pitt before his own Hollywood career took off. "I used to work at the Lyceum Theatre. I was an usher there in London," he said, noting that he thought Pitt had attended a production of The Lion King there, reported People. "The reason I worked there is because I wanted to spy on actors and try and learn, be a sponge. And one day Brad Pitt comes in to watch the play, and I'm at the back working. So I rush out, 'Oh my gosh, Brad Pitt's here.' And I don't catch him. I see blonde hair, blue jeans and some tan boots just walk out the door. I said, 'Wow, one day I'm going to work with him,' " Idris said. "I told Brad the story. I said, 'Hey, when I was younger, I saw you. You came to The Lion King.' He was like, 'I've never seen The Lion King,' " he said. Idris also shared once that he and Pitt drove the cars for their roles. "We drove up to 180 miles per hour," he said, revealing that he "tried" to race against Pitt. "Brad is really fast. He is just such an amazing adrenaline junkie. He rides bikes." While talking about his training for the role, Idris said it lasted about four months. "And it took us around two years to make this movie," he joked. "I had two years of F1 experience under my belt. Technically, I'm probably faster than Lewis Hamilton," reported People. 'F1' opens in theatres on June 27.
India Today
2 hours ago
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- India Today
Brad Pitt wears India on his sleeve, literally
Even before his upcoming movie F1 hits theatres, Hollywood star Brad Pitt has already delighted his Indian fans with a thoughtful sartorial for his fondness for India and fond memories of past visits, the actor was spotted wearing a shirt from an Indian brand that celebrates the country's rich actor wore a Tangaliya shirt by homegrown fashion label 11.11/Eleven Eleven, as captured in one of the behind-the-scenes photos from F1's shoot. Costume designer Julian Day captured the look and shared it with the 11.11 a look: View this post on Instagram A post shared by 11.11 / eleven eleven (@1111clothing)Tangaliya is a textile craft with its history dating back 700 years in involves creating extra yarns in contrasting colours, which are knotted around the fabric's yarns during the weaving process to form embossed, bead-like patterns. Each bead, or daana as it is locally called, contributes to forming the overall motif, which is visible on both sides of the rare craft is native to the Surendranagar and Kachchh regions in Gujarat. The weavers' eyes and hands are trained to meticulously twist the decorative yarns with the right tension to get the desired pattern, the brand 11.11/Eleven Eleven explains on their the shirt Brad Pitt wore? Well, you can add it to your collection as well. It is available for purchase on the brand's website for Rs 39,000. There are several other creations featuring Tangaliya craft too. Screenshot from As for the film F1, it also stars Damson Idris alongside Brad Pitt and is set to release in India on June 27. The highly anticipated Formula 1 racing feature stars Pitt as a former driver who returns to Formula 1, alongside Idris as his teammate at APXGP, a fictional team on the Reel advertisement
The Guardian
3 hours ago
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- The Guardian
Brad Pitt in the paddock: how F1 the Movie went deep to keep fans coming
After the British Grand Prix last year the drivers took their places in the media zone to conduct interviews, with Formula One world champions Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso among them. Yet it was all but impossible not to cast a glance sideways as Brad Pitt nonchalantly strolled out to face the microphones and cameras of his own, entirely staged, media scrum. None of us in the media pack openly goggled at the fact that Hollywood's A-list had joined the sweaty throng, because Pitt was there filming what would become F1 the Movie. And we, as with everyone else, were under strict instructions to behave normally. Indeed, as farcical as it might sound, by this point we had become almost inured to the presence of the stars and their crew after several years of being part and parcel of the F1 circus. Almost but not quite. I mean, it was Brad Pitt … The resulting film, released next Wednesday by Apple Studios, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Top Gun: Maverick's Joseph Kosinski, stars Pitt as the veteran driver Sonny Hayes, who makes a comeback to the sport after a 30-year absence to rescue the ailing and also fictional APX team. The film, which has had largely positive reviews so far – including from the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw – came about through an unusually proactive collaboration between the filmmakers and the sport. F1 bent over backwards to ensure it went well. The production filmed at circuits on real race weekends for over two years. The APX team enjoyed their own pit garage, their own hospitality and their own uniforms. With Pitt being filmed alongside real drivers and indeed the media around the grid and the 'paddock' (the working area of an F1 team), the filmmakers were effectively embedded within the sport as its 11th team – perhaps as deeply as it is possible for an entity to go without actually being a real team. They have also used real cars, albeit less-powerful Formula 2 models modified to look as close as possible to F1 cars by the Mercedes F1 team. Pitt and his co-star Damson Idris have filmed in cars, with Pitt doing all his own driving. He's been praised by Hamilton for picking up the skills quickly. Hamilton is both one of the producers and a special adviser to ensure the picture is as authentic as possible. For the producers, the collaboration is relatively straightforward. They wanted to make as authoritative, exciting and immersive a film as possible. And for the sport the movie is a key part of its global strategy. For many years F1 enjoyed a strong but undoubtedly niche-based support, largely centred on Europe and with a notably ageing, white-male demographic. But since Liberty Media took over the sport in 2017 from its former chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, who had been in charge for nearly 40 years, it has undergone a rapid and dramatic transformation. Liberty has expanded its reach, notably using social media and promotion to actively target a younger, more diverse audience. The enormously successful Netflix series Drive to Survive followed, its dramatic and sharply edited retelling of each season proving a huge hit with a market previously indifferent to F1. Drive to Survive is now in its seventh season since 2019. Suddenly the sport had an entirely new, enthusiastic fanbase; younger, excited and building momentum across the world – notably in the market every non US-based sport craves, North America. F1 has moved from one moderately well-attended race in Texas to three sellouts a year, now also including Miami and a night-race promoted by F1 itself on the streets of Las Vegas. Tyler Epp, the Miami GP president, noted that their audience is 'growing most aggressively in the 20- and 30-year-old buyer. Our data does not tell us that this is an audience of 30- to 60-year-old white men'. Instead, Epp says, there is a 60-40 male-female split – an 'eclectic, diverse group'. Recently, both golf and tennis have tried, with a lesser degree of success, to emulate the enormous surge of interest F1 has enjoyed. Sign up to The Recap The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend's action after newsletter promotion F1's willingness to accommodate Hollywood is shaped by this prism, the film a chance to sell the sport to a potentially huge audience who just might be converted. Sylvester Stallone tried to make an F1 film in the late 1990s but, given a lack of cooperation from Ecclestone, ultimately switched the story to the US-based CART series and the commercial and critical flop Driven was the result. Stefano Domenicali, a former team principal at Ferrari and president of the Italian car manufacturer Lamborghini, is the chief executive of F1, an accomplished operator with an easy-going persona. He is relaxed with F1 teams and Hollywood moguls and has been at the heart of the resurgence. 'I think that if Netflix was big, that the movie will be massive,' he said this year. 'We're going to hit a target that is not yet present.' Purists will sniff at some of the picture's deviations from certain aspects of F1's realities, and its concessions to dramatic and narrative convention to propel it as entertainment. But it was meant to be a blockbuster not a documentary and that's what matters to F1 and the producers. After the film's screenings in the US, Apple's senior vice-president, Eddy Cue, said that 'very few' of those attending had previously seen an F1 race but their reactions were instructive. 'When we finish and we ask how many of you would like to go see a race now, literally every single hand goes up,' he said. 'We think there's a huge, huge opportunity to grow the sport all over the world with this movie and I think it will do that.'
