{"id":539149,"date":"2026-03-16T01:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539149\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:42:09","slug":"damson-idris-on-f1-brad-pitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539149\/","title":{"rendered":"Damson Idris on F1, Brad Pitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damson Idris is ready to put his career in the fast lane.<\/p>\n<p>As the F1 star arrived at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/oscars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Oscars<\/a>\u2014hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/conan_obrien\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conan O\u2019Brien<\/a> at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood March 15\u2014he detailed how his costar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/brad_pitt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Pitt<\/a> taught him how to build \u201clongevity\u201d as he moves forward in his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a long game,\u201d Damson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/zuri_hall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zuri Hall<\/a> on Live from E!: Oscars 2026. \u201cUps and downs. [He has taught me:] Don&#8217;t chase moments, chase legacy. And I&#8217;m doing that with the roles that I play. F1 is just the start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old\u2014who sported a satin blue Prada suit on the red carpet\u2014added, \u201cThere&#8217;s so many amazing movies to come, from Children of Blood and Bone to [portraying] Miles Davis, I&#8217;m really excited for where I go in my career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Damson didn\u2019t just take life lessons from Brad\u2014he also took the title of Fastest Driver.<\/p>\n<p>As he put it, \u201cI am. I&#8217;m actually faster than Brad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But while Damson and the Oceans 11 star had fun building a bond, Brad also enjoyed pursuing one of his passions with F1, which is nominated for Best Picture.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damson Idris is ready to put his career in the fast lane. As the F1 star arrived at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-539149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}