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During the F1 premiere in Mexico City on June 9, a reporter for Entertainment Tonight referred to Pitt’s May 28 GQ interview — in which he declared that his life currently feels “fairly contained”, “pretty warm” and “secure” — and asked him what makes him feel “so grounded.”

“No matter the mistake, you know, you just learn from [it] and move on,” the actor shared. “It’ll lead to the next success.”

“I think [when] you get to my age, you really see how important it is to surround yourself with the people you love, the people that love you back,” he continued. “Friends, family, and that’s it.”

“From there, we get to go make things,” he added. “So it’s a pretty simple, I think, equation.”

CBR attended a press conference for F1 ahead of its theatrical release, where Kosinski, producer Jeremy Kleiner and stars Pitt, Idris and Kerry Condon discussed the intense training for the film. While the thrills come from the actors actually being in the driver’s seat during 180-miles-per-hour races, the heart of the film comes from the characters’ spirits and emotional journeys. They also revealed the most surprising things they learned about Formula One during the process of filming, and how the film was “nothing like” Pitt ever experienced in his career.

June 22, 2025 by Josan BP Gallery F1

Time

Formula One teams treat their trade secrets like matters of national security. In a motor-sport where milliseconds separate champions from also-rans, hiding technical know-how from opponents is as key as a fresh pair of tires. So when Joseph Kosinski, director of F1 the Movie—the summer-blockbuster hopeful starring Brad Pitt and hitting theaters and IMAX on June 27—tried to gain access to the inner workings of Formula One, a rush of déjà vu hit him. After all, Kosinski made Top Gun: Maverick, the 2022 naval-aviator smash that grossed $1.5 billion, with the support of the U.S. Department of Defense. “It was the same level of security,” he says, “that I experienced when I went to some secret bases.”

Kosinski spent a year bugging Toto Wolff, team principal of the Mercedes–AMG Petronas F1 team, for permission to film at the Mercedes race simulator. Most Mercedes employees themselves can’t access this space at headquarters, 70 miles northwest of London. But Wolff finally relented. So in the movie viewers will see Pitt and Damson Idris, who respectively play Sonny Hayes and Joshua Pearce, drivers for the fictional APXGP team, practicing on Mercedes’ high-priced toys. “We were keen on contributing to making this a success,” says Wolff, who along with F1 president and CEO Stefano Domenicali is credited as an executive producer. “And that means you cannot be half pregnant and say, ‘Yeah, we’re playing along, but no, we don’t want to let you into our factory.’”

June 22, 2025 by Josan F1

Pitt’s text to Lewis Hamilton revealed after Intense “F1” movie test drive

“I remember on the first days that I got to work with Brad, we were at Silverstone… We actually did a bit of a track day together in LA. And I got to drive and he drove and straight away I already knew that you could sense he already kind of knew where the lines were,” Hamilton explained.

“He had a bit of a feel for it already, so it wasn’t completely alien.

“You know, I worked as a driver coach when I was a kid just to make a bit of money on the side whilst I was racing and I had some pretty bad drivers along the way who just didn’t know where they were on track and so straight away you could see he had a concept of what it is, a driving line.

“And I didn’t actually get to drive on track with Damson, but they both went through training. They were both super open-minded and really deep-dived into what it takes to be a racing driver, which was really cool to see. And I think through that process, it was amazing to speak to Brad, to see his shock.

June 22, 2025 by Josan F1

Brad Pitt Gives His Hysterical Condition for Working With Tom Cruise Again

Pitt was at the premiere for F1 when E! News asked him about Cruise. First, they talked about how Cruise loved the film and praised it. While on stage at CinemaCon, Cruise said that he couldn’t wait to see F1 this summer. And Kosinski has, in the press, joked about how Cruise couldn’t play Pitt’s role in F1 because it’d be a lot more dangerous for them all. This is part of the reason why Pitt will not be working with Cruise anytime soon. In his own words, he’ll work with Cruise when he ends up back on the ground.

“It’s so sweet,” Pitt said when E! brought up Cruise’s praise of the film. “He’s sweet. We did have our Go-Kart days back in the 90s, early 90s.” E! was shocked to learn about their Go-Kart days. But when asked if he’d star in a movie with Cruise again, Pitt was blunt about the situation. “Well, I’m not going to hang my a** off airplanes and s*** like that, so when he does something again, that’s on the ground.” When asked who won their Go-Kart adventures? Pitt said “He got me in the end. I gotta tell you. I gotta admit.”

June 22, 2025 by Josan interview with the vampire

GQ

There’s a roar beyond the grandstands—something atavistic, something mean and mad and on the prowl. Those of us standing on the pit wall of Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina Circuit snap our heads expectantly in the direction of the sound, holding our collective breath for a T-Rex to emerge, or for Brad Pitt’s F1 car to come screaming down the start-finish straight.

Whaaaa! There it is, sliding around the track’s final turn and onto the stretch. And in three…two…one, Pitt’s car rockets by with the speed and power of a fighter jet, belching flames out of its tail as it thunders through turn one and disappears from view.

Our hair blown back, I hear someone say, “I will never get sick of that sound.”

For those wondering: Yes, Brad Pitt is really driving the car in this movie. In fact, Brad Pitt and Damson Idris really driving the car has become, in some ways, the point of the movie—or at least the emotional nucleus during production.

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