Sky Sports activities F1’s presenters have defined how a selfie try with Brad Pitt went badly fallacious.
The official trailer for the Hollywood film starring Pitt, referred to as ‘F1’, dropped on the eve of the 2025 season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
Mega-star Pitt stars as a veteran driver returning for one more shot at glory, in a film the place Lewis Hamilton labored as a producer.
Filming for the film occurred in the course of the real-life British Grand Prix final yr.
Pitt drove on the monitor in entrance of a dwell viewers, for key scenes, and the paddock was kitted out with a fictional storage belonging to his staff Apex GP.
Brad Pitt selfie try goes fallacious
However a particular preview for the film is not going to be out there to Simon Lazenby, Naomi Schiff and Jenson Button.
“Unsure we’re going to get an invitation to the premiere,” Lazenby defined throughout Australian Grand Prix apply protection.
“As a result of, I believe it was at Silverstone? We are able to most likely say it now that they’ve wrapped manufacturing…
“We wandered up – myself, Naomi and Jenson – to Brad on the entrance of the grid.
“Tried to get a selfie… then the word got here again to us, a bit bit afterward, saying that we had interrupted Mr. Pitt’s ‘course of’.
“Apologies to Brad if he’s watching this. That’s the explanation we’re not going.”
Schiff stated: “I believe it’s truthful to say we’re not going to make the lower!
“We tried to get behind the scene.”
The total trailer dropped this week to entice F1 followers to look at Pitt on the silver display screen.
Schiff stated: “Doesn’t it look nice?
“We’ve seen quite a lot of what occurs behind the scenes. We’ve seen their massive crews on the bottom.
“However I simply can’t wait to see what the film goes to seem like.”
Lazenby replied: “It appears to be like superb, doesn’t it? We’re going to overlook them this yr.”
Ferrari driver Hamilton, who was concerned as a co-producer, praised Pitt’s driving capacity.
“Watching Brad drive round at speeds over 180 miles an hour was actually spectacular to see as a result of it isn’t one thing you’ll be able to simply be taught in a single day,” Hamilton stated.
“The dedication and the main target that Brad put into this course of has been superb to witness.”
Director Joseph Kosinski added: “If Brad cannot drive, this complete movie wasn’t going to work.
“And what Lewis was very pleased to find was that, you recognize, Brad had quite a lot of simply pure capacity proper from the beginning.
“I do not know the place he received that. He rides bikes, which I believe has one thing to do with it.
“However he is only a very proficient, naturally gifted driver. Which gave Lewis quite a lot of confidence that we’d have a shot at pulling this off.”
