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Javier Bardem and Damson Idris know how to handle pressure on the racetrack—but the real challenge begins in this episode of “Inquiring Minds.” The ‘F1’ stars share the hot seat, hilariously answering questions about their careers and personal lives—from the scene they wish they could reshoot, to the most famous person who’s ever texted them back. Watch as Javier and Damson open up about driving real Formula One cars, working with Brad Pitt and what they learned from racing legend Toto Wolff.

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00:00A donkey, that was hard.
00:02Forget about the F1 card.
00:03You know what a donkey is capable of doing?
00:06It can kick your ass in a second, man.
00:08Hello, I am Javier Bardem.
00:10And I am Damson Idris, and this is
00:12Inquiring Minds with Esquire.
00:16Hmm.
00:18Okay, if you could reshoot any scene
00:21from any of your projects, what would it be?
00:23I've seen El-Kahim!
00:25Mr. El-Kahim!
00:28He was calling me this all day long in F1 set.
00:31Mr. El-Kahim!
00:32And I was like, what happened?
00:34Every time he'd walk on set, I'd scream that.
00:37Which one? So many.
00:39So many reshoots I'll do in my own stuff.
00:42I mean...
00:43The shootout scene in No Country, would you do that again?
00:46The gas scene station?
00:47I think that's pretty well done the way it is.
00:49I'll tell you why.
00:50It's not so much about me.
00:51I've always said that.
00:53It's about the other actor.
00:54Mmm.
00:55How well he plays fear.
00:58He gives so much to my character
01:00by the way he plays his character.
01:02It's kind of like me in this movie.
01:04I was just in fear acting opposite you.
01:06All right.
01:08And then you realize that I was an angel.
01:11I was such a nice guy.
01:13Wait until I ask you this.
01:15Oh my gosh.
01:16What is your biggest pith in life?
01:20What the hell is this?
01:22Pet peeve.
01:23Biggest pet peeve is when people wear ankle swingers.
01:30When they wear a suit and too much of their ankles and socks are showing.
01:35Yeah.
01:36That's me as well.
01:37Yeah.
01:38I feel like that.
01:39Also, just long trousers with no socks as well.
01:41It's like, that's forbidden.
01:42Like, what are you doing?
01:43Just raw dog in your shoes?
01:45What was your day job before your acting career took off?
01:48Day job?
01:49Many.
01:50I mean, as in any other actor in the world, I was a waiter.
01:52Mmm.
01:53I was working in restaurants, bars, the door of the pub to say to people to not come in.
02:00But I'm so nice that I let everybody in.
02:03They fired me because the viewers are supposed to stop people.
02:06Why?
02:07They don't have money.
02:08They want to get a drink.
02:09Let them in.
02:10Oh my God.
02:11They fired me.
02:13What's the most challenging thing you've ever done for a role?
02:17I mean, this role.
02:18You know, we trained for about four months and consecutively over the two year period,
02:25driving real Formula One cars.
02:27Would you call that challenging, really?
02:29Come on.
02:30I mean, it was a breeze for me.
02:31Come on.
02:32Right on the other.
02:33I'm playing.
02:34I'm here.
02:35What about you?
02:36I once have to ride on a monkey.
02:38I'm sorry, monkey.
02:39No.
02:40Donkey.
02:41Donkey.
02:42Go back.
02:44A donkey.
02:45That was hard.
02:46Fucking up on the F1 car.
02:47Do you know what a donkey is capable of doing?
02:50He can kick your ass in a second, man.
02:53200 miles, pal.
02:55What is the wildest note a director has ever given you?
02:58Can you please be understood while you speak?
03:03Oh my God.
03:04What the?
03:05That's insane.
03:06What do you mean?
03:08What do you mean?
03:09I'm in my nest.
03:11No, but Milos Forman, when he was doing Goya's Ghosts,
03:15I had a scene with Natalie Portman the first day,
03:18and I'm working with her, and then,
03:20Javier, you're destroying my movie.
03:23It's the worst thing I've seen in my life.
03:26Oh, no.
03:27Silence.
03:28No, I'm joking.
03:29It's okay.
03:30That's Milos Forman.
03:31Oh, that's hilarious.
03:32One of my first movies, it was called The Commute,
03:34starring Liam Neeson.
03:36I played this detective, and I kept doing it the same every time,
03:40every take.
03:41And then the director came out, he said,
03:43damn, senor, you are doing it the same every take.
03:46And when an actor does that, this makes me sad.
03:52That's horrible.
03:53Horrible.
03:54Oh, my Lord.
03:55Liam Neeson's just looking at me like,
03:57I don't think this kid's gonna make it.
03:59What's something you can get in L.A. that you can get in London?
04:05At Nando's.
04:06Nando's?
04:07Nando's.
04:08I love Nando's.
04:10It's actually a South African restaurant,
04:12beautiful chicken, but it's all around the world as well.
04:15And they only do it in London, but they don't do it in L.A.,
04:17and I wish they did.
04:18Hopefully, we can open a franchise,
04:19and I can run it and make a bunch of money.
04:21Who said that?
04:22What's your Nando's order?
04:23Harry Tamer flavor, half chicken, tell them two quarters.
04:27So I don't want any side breasts, dark meat only.
04:30We could throw fries in there every now and then.
04:32Halloumi cheese, bottomless drink, preferably a Coke.
04:38Name one rumor you've heard about yourself
04:40that you wish was true.
04:42Oh, that I have lots of mansions all over the world,
04:46like Miami, America, Bahamas.
04:49And I go, wow, all right, I'll take that.
04:51I'll take that.
04:52Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:53Okay, what's the biggest style gamble you've pulled off?
04:56I'm going to say for the Met Gala.
04:59Oh, yeah.
05:00Yeah, we pulled up in a race suit.
05:02They pulled the suit away.
05:03I had a gorgeous Tommy Hilfiger.
05:05Beautiful suit underneath.
05:07I did it, you know, pulled away smoothly.
05:10I took my helmet off.
05:11I pretended I was Brad Pitt with long blonde hair.
05:13That was an interest, man.
05:15Thank you, man.
05:16It's hard to top that, I would say.
05:18And I drove there in a Formula One car as well.
05:20Crazy. In New York?
05:21You don't drive.
05:22No, once I drove from my home to the next corner,
05:27and I got lost.
05:31Which celebrity do you get mistaken for the most?
05:34For a long time I've been mistaken by Brad Pitt.
05:37To a point where I was like, stop, enough.
05:41But then Jeffrey Dean Morgan is an actor that we look alike.
05:46Oh, wow.
05:47He's more handsome.
05:48My head is way bigger than his, I'm sure.
05:50But yeah, so I'm sorry for Jeffrey if he's been mistaken by me.
05:55Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:57Which of your projects were you most nervous to watch back?
06:01Wow, this movie.
06:02I was really nervous to watch this movie back.
06:04It took us two years, as you know, to film this.
06:07We survived two strikes.
06:09So I was really excited for myself to see it,
06:12but also the world to see it.
06:14Javier, do you have any films that you were nervous to watch back?
06:16I try to not watch back anything that I've done.
06:19And I forbid my kids to watch anything back.
06:21Who's the most famous person in your phone who actually texts you back?
06:28That's a good one.
06:30I would say Bono.
06:33Bono?
06:34Bono.
06:35Wow.
06:36Bono, he really responds and he always amazes me how many people he must know.
06:41Wow.
06:42And because he's like, I mean, he's an icon.
06:45And he responds and I go, I was expecting you to respond to me like in a week.
06:50And he's like right there.
06:52Wow.
06:53That's so cool.
06:54What a beautiful man he is.
06:55Bono.
06:56What's one thing you never travel without?
06:58Oh my gosh, a lip balm.
06:59I need some nails.
07:00I don't have any lip balm.
07:01I'm just paranoid that I'm going to have dry lips and like someone's going to take a picture
07:06of me and me.
07:07Oh, look at his crusty ass lips.
07:09Is there anything you can't travel without?
07:11Tough brush.
07:12Brushed tooth.
07:13Tooth breath brush.
07:14How do you say it?
07:15Brushed tooth.
07:16Brushed tooth.
07:17Brushed tooth.
07:18You are amazing.
07:20Yeah.
07:21That's the only thing.
07:22I can travel naked.
07:23But not without my brush.
07:25What's one thing you've learned from Toto Wolff?
07:28We love Toto Wolff.
07:29Wow.
07:30I just tried to get some of his elegance and his smoothness and his coolness into Ruben's
07:37character.
07:38He did a fantastic job.
07:39Fantastic job.
07:40He's so nice and so sweet also.
07:42So sweet.
07:43And a great actor.
07:44He can get crazy.
07:45He can get crazy when he's on the headphones and giving orders.
07:47I saw that.
07:48I was like, yeah, that as well.
07:50Oh my God.
07:51Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:52What is the most British thing about you?
07:54Oh, the most British thing about me is I love beans on toast.
08:00Mmm.
08:01People don't like beans.
08:03Like, there's a lot of people who don't like...
08:05I like beans.
08:06You like beans?
08:07I like beans.
08:08Beans are good.
08:09Yeah.
08:10Of course.
08:11Americans don't like beans though.
08:12For some reason they always make fun of me.
08:14Stop making fun of me.
08:15No.
08:16Don't make fun of him because of the beans.
08:19Yeah.
08:20That's not nice.
08:22That's not nice.
08:23Okay.
08:24Who is the one person you forgot to thank during an acceptance speech?
08:29My acting coach.
08:31My acting coach and my agent, Elise.
08:33I'm sorry, go back.
08:34I love both of them.
08:35Wait, Javier Bardem has an acting coach?
08:39Oh yeah.
08:40Yeah, since I was 20.
08:42And I go there every year.
08:43His name is Juan Carlos Coraza from Argentina.
08:46He's in Spain.
08:47You hear that, kids?
08:48Yeah.
08:49You can never be too fantastic to not train.
08:52No, no, no.
08:53Of course.
08:54We have to train.
08:55We have to train.
08:56Unless your name's damn Sinatra's, you need no training.
08:58In this rapid round we'll have 30 seconds to sound off.
09:01Let's go.
09:02Last major fashion purchase?
09:04None.
09:07Last book you finished?
09:08Children of Blood and Bone.
09:09One movie you'll never get sick of?
09:11E.T.
09:12You love E.T.
09:13Bam!
09:14Go to excuse to get out of plans.
09:16Oh my gosh, I'm so tired.
09:18I have to be up so early.
09:19What's your strangest superstition?
09:21None.
09:22I don't have any.
09:23Playing the hero or playing the villain?
09:25Villains.
09:26Always.
09:27Who's an actor who can do no wrong?
09:29Al Pacino.
09:30Look at that.
09:31I love him.
09:32Driver's seat or passenger seat?
09:34Driver's seat.
09:35What's yours?
09:36No, passenger.
09:37Passenger.
09:42I will put it here.
09:44Somebody has to pick that up.
09:45We will.
09:46We will pick that up.
09:47We will pick it up.
09:48Thank you very much for watching and check out F1 movie in theaters now.
09:52You don't have to record us.
09:54We need it up.
09:55Yeah, you have to.
09:56Come on.
09:57All right.
09:58You guys want to hear it.

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