Michael Mann on Why Adam Driver & Penélope Cruz Were Prefect For 'Ferrari' | THR Video - video Dailymotion

Michael Mann tells THR why Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz were perfect for their roles in his film 'Ferrari' at the 61st New York Film Festival.

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00:00 You've said in the past that you thought this movie would be impossible to make.

00:03 Why do you think that was?

00:05 And how does it feel now that it's been made?

00:07 The it was impossible to make because Formula One, nobody appreciated it

00:11 in the United States. OK, so it was very big globally, but not but not not domestically.

00:17 And then things changed to actually do the Netflix and Drive to Survive F1.

00:24 And now the United States is the biggest Formula One venue.

00:27 Now, this is not a racing movie.

00:29 This is really a movie behind racing, behind Ferrari and the three very torrid

00:33 months in the life of Ferrari.

00:36 His second, his wife, Laura, the both in grief

00:40 over the death of their son, Dino, a year earlier.

00:43 And then also the second family that he has that she doesn't know about

00:47 with Lena Lardi and a 12 year old boy, Piero, who's now Piero Ferrari,

00:52 and all of which comes to the surface at a moment in time

00:56 in which the company is going bankrupt.

00:58 So it's all this drama is happening within

01:01 three month period in 1957.

01:04 And why was Adam and Penelope the best two leads for the movie?

01:10 Adam, because I sensed sitting across from him at a table at Santo Mama

01:15 the the total the artistic integrity and that

01:19 that you see it in somebody's eyes if you're a director, that dedication,

01:24 the commitment that Adam's absolutely the real deal.

01:29 Penelope has possesses this natural primitive

01:33 in a great way, primitive kind of life force.

01:36 She just speaks her mind.

01:38 And and I thought this and I've known her for a long time.

01:43 But when we're discussing Laura on a zoom within five minutes, I know she's Laura.

01:48 And there was nobody else on the planet who could be Laura better than

01:51 better than she could.

01:52 Except I had to mess up her hair a lot because she's so beautiful

01:55 that you've got to hit her on the head with a hammer to get it to look bad.

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