F1: Brad Pitt's Very Scary Moment!

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Brad Pitt is starring as Sonny, a high speed racing car driver in Warner Brothers' new movie, F1. He revealed a big problem he ran in to whilst filming at the infamous Silverstone race course at the European Premiere in London.    F1 is out in cinemas now! Report by Jonesl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00You really feel it like we've never felt it before.

00:02I really want to drive it again.

00:03A little bit.

00:05A little bit.

00:06Talk to me about being in London at the European premiere.

00:08Sum up how you're feeling to show audiences in the UK.

00:10Well, it's been a long time coming, this film.

00:14Of course, it took two years just for Joe to figure out the CG of it all.

00:18I think it's sensational.

00:19It's thrilling.

00:20It's the most visceral experience you'll ever have in a driving movie.

00:24And it's really funny and really warm.

00:26It really is.

00:27And what about being in Silverstone?

00:29And being in the UK, just how special did that feel?

00:31Well, Silverstone is the birthplace of F1 as we know it today.

00:35And we got to spend a lot of time on the track, a couple of months.

00:40So it's a real kind of intimate, near and dear place for me.

00:46We've been there twice throughout the year and a half of filming.

00:49And it will always be a special place.

00:51And I really want to drive it again.

00:53Do you have a highlight?

00:54Well, the first time we got out in front of the crowd at Race Week 2,

00:59and it was pretty exciting.

01:01And we had our choreography, everything we were going to do.

01:04We were all set.

01:05And we get out, and we get out, and there's 100,000 fans, and my comms go down.

01:10We're driving deaf.

01:11But we pulled it out somehow.

01:13That's quite exciting, though, isn't it?

01:14We diced it up with Luciano Bacchetta.

01:17He was my trainer.

01:19We had Craig Dolby, also a hometown driver, and Duncan Kirby.

01:26And all these guys made it what it is.

01:30Made Damson and I what we were.

01:32Why was it so important, and special for you, to be actually driving the cars?

01:35Well, it's just never been done before.

01:37And the thing that we were always wrestling with is you don't feel the physics.

01:40You don't feel the speed, the forces on the body.

01:43I mean, at a high-speed corner, it really just wants to grip your head from your shoulders.

01:48It's so massive.

01:49And we're not even doing what the guys are doing.

01:51And it's just something you never, you really feel it like we've never felt it before.

01:57So you got bitten by the bug, then, you reckon?

01:59A little bit.

02:00A little bit.

02:02And what about why fans should see this on the biggest possible screen?

02:05Well, it's really, I mean, okay, you don't have to know anything about the sport.

02:10It's just, it's really funny.

02:12It's really funny.

02:13And I've got to say, it's like any good sports movie.

02:17It gives you chills at the end.

02:18And it's got that warmth of story, and I think it's really, really a great summer movie.

02:25And is it safe to say that it's up there, one of your favorite things you've done?

02:28Because you've done quite a lot, Brad.

02:29It's up there.

02:30It's up there at the top.

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