Lewis Hamilton on his role in Brad Pitt’s Formula 1 film: ‘I want to see female drivers and mechanics’

The professional life of Lewis Hamilton it doesn’t stop running Formula 1. The 38-year-old Englishman continues to show his versatility and search for new horizons despite still having a tough time in the sport. In this case he joined the production of the new film dedicated to the Maxima which commands brad pitt and in which the Oscar winner He will also have a leading role.

The seven-time world champion is taking part in the casting of the film, the shooting of which will begin in the second half of the year. Pitt was present at the last United States Grand Prix held last October at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin. To start soaking up the vibe, he met with riders, team owners and even the category’s CEO, Stefano Domenicali.

The film will have the references in the production that worked in Top Gun – Maverickthe producer Jerry Bruckheimerthe director Joe Kosinsky and the screenwriter Kruger Honor. While Hamilton has joined the working team and is serving as a producer and advisor on the project through his production company, Dawn Apollo Films.

The film will have Pitt as the main protagonist, who will play a veteran racer who returns to the Maxima to guide a rising young figure, a role that still has no voice actor. “Right now we’re going through a character selection process that’s going to be with Brad, which is exciting,” Hamilton told the site. Sports car.

“Basically, it’s the process of watching auditions. We have tapes of them doing certain scenes and we’re done. I sat in the office with Jerry, Joe and Brad, and we watched them and gave our opinion and what we think.”

Hamilton felt it was a “responsibility” for him on the project to ensure the cast was diverse, saying he was particularly keen to see more women in the roles. “I want to do the movie, in terms of diversity and representation, I want it to be like F1 should be in the future, or it should be now, but it will be in the future,” he said. “I want to see mechanical women. We would like to see a female pilot. We haven’t reached that point yet. But why not?“confessed the native of Stevenage.

“Right now, we still have the script. We went through quite a few different iterations. We’re still waiting for a new rewrite, and that’s the whole process. But I was doing that all Christmas long,” he explained.

“It’s touching. I can’t wait for the next ending to the script. I was talking to Brad last night about the characters we have coming up.” F1 will cooperate fully during race weekends with the production of the film, which Hamilton said in October would be “best racing movie”.

You have to remember that Domenicali in this race in Austin anticipated the details: “I think it’s something serious. I’m very excited because we’re in a place where people think, “What happens next?” In this interview with Sports car, the Italian underlined that “it is a new step in growth. We really believe that this will allow F1 to be in another dimension that has not been explored so deeply and so well until today.

When asked if the production will have its own cars on track between official sessions, he replied: “All I can say is that it will be real, so you will see something during the weekends. race.”

Bruckheimer has experience in motorsport since in 1990 he worked on the film NASCAR Days of Thunder with Tom Cruise.

F1 has had several films and the most iconic is Grand Prize (1966) which won three Academy Awards for Best Sound, Best Sound Editing and Best Editing. another icon is Rush (2013), which recreates the duel between Niki Lauda there james hunt of 1976. And of the 24 hours of Le Mans they joined Le Mans (1971) y Ford versus Ferrari (2019).

After the presentations of the ten new cars, F1 will take to the track between next Thursday and Saturday during pre-season testing at the Sakhir International Circuit, which will host the championship opener with the Bahrain Grand Prix.

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