Watch This! MotorTrend Interviews Cast Members of Ford v Ferrari Matt Damon and Christian Bale

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00:00 Well, Carroll Shelby's like 6'3".

00:01 Yeah, there's nothing I can do about that.

00:03 That was like Invictus.

00:05 Invictus, that guy was 6'5".

00:07 I'm like, "Alright, well..."

00:08 I love that that's the first thing.

00:09 I thought you were going to talk about some detail about the car.

00:12 It's like, "Matt, you're too short to play Carroll Shelby."

00:15 It's like, "I am as God made me."

00:26 And that's it, folks. Ferrari wins the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the fifth consecutive year.

00:32 What is a cooler car? The Ford GT40 Mark I or the Tumbler from Batman?

00:39 Oh, you know, actually, pure driving, of course, it's the Ford in terms of racing.

00:50 But that Tumbler was really something else.

00:52 Built without an axle, a front axle, genuinely.

00:56 I mean, you could do that. It actually could jump over the top of the other cars.

01:01 I mean, there are different models that could do different things.

01:03 Some of it was just rolling up at 15 miles an hour and looking cool.

01:06 But others, you get inside that thing, and it was not comfortable at all,

01:11 but it could do well over 100.

01:13 First cool car you guys ever bought?

01:17 I think it was like the 44th Tesla Roadster.

01:21 Ooh, that is cool.

01:22 Yeah, that's 10 years ago or something. That was fast.

01:27 Yeah, that was a good one.

01:28 I had a TR6 for a little bit.

01:30 Can you guys tell me about what's it like to work with Jim?

01:34 The fact that he is not a real racing fan ended up being quite strangely a benefit with this film

01:42 because he was learning all about it. He was really excited about it all,

01:48 but was always coming at it from a human storytelling point of view.

01:53 But also, he didn't fall into that trap of fetishizing the cars, right?

01:57 Like, here's a shot of a bumper. I'm going to hold on it for a week

02:01 because who else, you know, don't we all want to look at this?

02:04 Look at how the sun glints off it.

02:06 And you can fall into that trap if you're making a movie about something you love so much

02:10 that you assume everybody loves it that much too, you know?

02:13 It's awful, but there's a problem. The computer will find it.

02:16 Get some Scotch tape and a ball of wool.

02:18 What are they doing?

02:19 Making your car faster.

02:21 That's more like it!

02:24 What did you guys have to learn for this film?

02:26 When Jim was shooting my feet on the pedals close, and I'd be doing the heel-toe in one,

02:29 he was like, "What are you doing? It's how you do it.

02:32 It's how you're at those speeds. That's what you've got to do."

02:35 I think people just--unless you're a racer, he was like,

02:38 "I don't think anyone's going to understand what you're doing."

02:40 Like, people just think you don't know how to drive.

02:42 What's he doing with that thing there?

02:44 But I don't know that I had to learn all of that,

02:47 but I really wanted to learn all of that

02:50 and went to the Bob Bondurant Racing School out in Arizona.

02:53 I had an incredible time there.

02:55 Yeah, I've been there.

02:57 I think that gives you an appreciation of the absolute adrenaline rush

03:02 of racing at high speeds for me.

03:05 Not that Ken Miles would have been sitting having a sandwich looking backwards,

03:08 but for me, high speeds, just inches from another car.

03:12 It's so exciting.

03:14 So that gave me something of--I would practice being Ken as I was running around that.

03:19 He was a very colorful character.

03:21 He wasn't absolutely stoic.

03:23 He was an exuberant guy.

03:25 So we learned that.

03:27 There's always something that you have to pick up,

03:29 whether it's accents or whatever that you've got to do

03:32 or how to have a fight and look absolutely pathetic.

03:35 Yeah, it was a new fighting style we've learned for us as well.

03:39 As Christian's saying, they all have their different challenges.

03:41 It's like troubleshooting what you're going to need to do to make the magic trick work.

03:49 But the fight was very, very fun.

03:51 It's rare you get permission to be that goofy.

03:55 Fun to watch.

03:56 Yeah, normally they want us to be really serious about it.

03:58 Morning, Shelby.

04:03 Morning, Molly.

04:05 I'm Hughes.

04:06 I'll go to hell.

04:07 I think we're out of time, so thanks guys very much.

04:09 Appreciate it.

04:10 Thanks.

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