A last-minute addition to Contenders London to promote Apple Original Film\u2019s F1, Irish actress Kerry Condon rocked the house with her memories of shooting Joseph Kosinski\u2019s racing drama, set in the macho world of Formula One. Playing technician Kate McKenna to Pitt\u2019s maverick driver Sonny Hayes, Condon offsets the male bias as a woman who can more than handle herself in a man\u2019s world, a challenge she was willing to embrace. \u201cI can change a tire, I\u2019m a great driver,\u201d she said. \u201cHonestly, though, physics and maths were my worst subjects in school. So when I was learning about it, I did have my limits with those aspects of it. It\u2019s very technical and it\u2019s not something I\u2019d be good at in real life.\u201d<\/p>\n
The part also required Condon to square up against Pitt and tell him a brutal home truth: \u201cSonny Hayes isn\u2019t a has-been, he\u2019s a never-was.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Condon laughed when reminded of the scene. \u201cThat was very early on in the shoot\u201d she recalled. \u201cWe\u2019d shot at Silverstone [race track], and it was a big high. Everyone went out, but I was like, \u2018I\u2019m not going out. I\u2019ve got that big scene with Brad on Tuesday. There\u2019s no way I\u2019m hitting the town.\u2019 So I laid low, because I knew I had that scene coming up, and it was a really big scene, and I wanted to prove why I got the job. The biggest thing for me in that scene was when I pick up the pint, I was like, \u2018Don\u2019t shake the pint! Don\u2019t shake the pint!\u2019 That would give away the fact at I was nervous. I was like, \u2018Just pick it up!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The shaky pint, however, proved not to be the problem. \u201cJoe said, the more takes we did, the meaner I got, which I was surprised by. I was like, \u201cI don\u2019t think I was that mean to him!\u2019 And so a lot of the cut that you see was the first take. The actor\u2019s strike started the next day, so a part of me was like, \u2018I could get recast if I don\u2019t do this good.\u2019 Stranger things have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Condon also revealed that the film\u2019s main action scenes were filmed almost on the fly at real racing events around the world. \u201cI felt like we were a guest of Formula One, and we were a film crew infiltrating their actual job,\u201d she said. \u201cJoe did tell me when I got the job, \u2018Your theater background will help, because there\u2019s a live aspect to this. You couldn\u2019t be like, \u2018Can I go to my trailer? I just want to brush my teeth.\u2019 It was like, \u2018You\u2019ve got to be ready. There\u2019s nobody waiting for you.\u2019 I kind of loved the non-princessy vibe, because it was like, \u2018We can\u2019t be thinking about that. We haven\u2019t time.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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