{"id":205894,"date":"2025-10-11T20:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/205894\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T20:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:23:08","slug":"kerry-condon-on-tense-brad-pitt-f1-movie-face-off-scene-as-take-count-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/205894\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Condon on tense Brad Pitt \u201cF1\u201d movie face-off scene as take count rose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish actor Kerry Condon, who portrayed APX GP technical director Kate McKenna in the F1 movie, has opened up on filming a tense scene with Brad Pitt, who played Sonny Hayes.<\/p>\n

Starring alongside Pitt and Condon were the likes of Damson Idris, Javier Bardem, Tobias Menzies and Kim Bodnia. It was directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton<\/a> also served as an executive producer on the blockbuster.<\/p>\n

The film follows nomadic racing driver Hayes as he returns to F1 to help the struggling new team, APX GP, and its rookie driver Joshua Pearce, played by Idris. Since its release in June 2025, it has brought in $68.8million at the box office.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was very early on in the shoot,\u201d she explained to Deadline<\/a>, discussing the scene in which McKenna is brutally honest with Hayes, stating, “Sonny Hayes isn’t a has-been, he’s a never was.”<\/p>\n

Condon added: “We\u2019d shot at Silverstone, 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\u00a0no way\u00a0I\u2019m hitting the town.\u2019<\/p>\n

“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 that I was nervous. I was like, \u2018Just pick it up!\u2019<\/p>\n

“Joe [Joseph Kosinski] said, the more takes we did, the meaner I got, which I was surprised by. I was like, ‘I don\u2019t think I was\u00a0that\u00a0mean to him!\u2019 And so a lot of the cut that you see was the first take. The actors’ 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.”<\/p>\n

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F1 Movie scene<\/p>\n

Photo by: Apple<\/p>\n

The movie was filmed during real-life F1 weekends, alongside the 20 F1 drivers and other team personnel, some of whom appear in the film.<\/p>\n

“I felt like we were a guest of Formula 1, and we were a film crew infiltrating their actual job,\u201d she said. \u201cJoe did tell me when I got the job, \u2018Your theatre background will help, because there\u2019s a live aspect to this.’<\/p>\n

“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”<\/p>\n

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