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Does ‘F1’ Star Javier Bardem Remember His Movie Locations?
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7/8/2025
Condé Nast Traveler joins ‘F1’ star Javier Bardem to test his movie location knowledge. From the action-packed chases of James Bond to the vast deserts of Dune, can he remember where his most iconic movies were filmed?
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And I felt like, okay, there's a life, there's a life with, there's a life beyond this haircut.
00:07
What business is it of yours? Where I'm from?
00:11
Friendo.
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Hello, I am Javier Bardem. I filmed in amazing locations. Let's see if I remember them.
00:19
Well, this is obviously no country for all men, and I would say the location is New Mexico, right?
00:38
It was New Mexico. We're going to say Marfa, Texas, but no, it's New Mexico.
00:42
Yeah, Las Vegas, New Mexico.
00:43
Las Vegas, New Mexico, exactly. Yeah, great moment, great scene.
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How much?
00:51
The 69 scene.
00:53
And the gas.
00:56
It was my first true American movie with a whole American crew that always speak English,
01:03
and that's like almost 19 years ago. So for me, I felt very isolated. And I guess that
01:14
translated into the character that I play, which is a very isolated person from the world,
01:19
but detached from the world. When you see that a person like that character is used to walk this
01:27
landscape, and somehow you really have to reflect that in his behavior, because he belongs to that land,
01:34
and that land is within him. So of course, it has a special direct effect in his way of moving,
01:44
speaking, hearing, listening, acting.
01:46
New Mexico, it was the first and last time I've been there.
01:49
And not because I didn't want to come back. It's because life didn't take me back there.
01:54
They took me to this beautiful spa made in the nature whose name I don't remember,
02:00
but it was very spectacular. It was one of those days that I felt like,
02:05
oof, relief of the character in some ways. Like, I was with Josh Brolin, who I adore,
02:14
and some other people from the crew, and I felt like, okay, there's a life. There's a life with,
02:19
there's a life beyond this haircut.
02:21
I remember being on the top of one of those dunes and see the valley underneath, the valley of sand
02:41
underneath. And it was humongous. It was like a sea of sand. It was absolutely spectacular. It's one
02:49
of those things that you are so blessed to witness because of the work you do.
02:54
And you realize that what they pay you for is to wait. The acting, you do it for free,
03:00
because it's a luxury. I would say this is Dune 2, and this is The Desert of Abu Dhabi.
03:09
I think this is the scene where the sandworm riding happens, no? Yeah.
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Shy Hulu decides today if you become Freeman or if you die. It took Dune, if I recall, like three
03:23
weeks to shoot that scene, that sandworm riding. And that's why it's so good. When you see it,
03:28
it's absolutely like a goosebump.
03:30
It took Dune 2, and that's why it's so good. And that's why it's so good.
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On my side, I just have to witness it happening. And of course we didn't have a sandworm being
03:44
right in front of our eyes. It was just a tennis ball going like that.
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But since we knew what he was doing with the sandworm unit, and we saw some of the things that
03:58
they were doing and some of the shots were already shot, we had that in our minds. And that's why
04:04
we really believed that that little yellow tennis ball was a big, huge sandworm.
04:16
Abu Dhabi is fun for the kids, so that's the place my kids want to visit because they have
04:22
tons of parts to go to, and the Ferrari world, and Dubai nearby. And they were in that
04:28
location, and we had lots of fun doing crazy things on the dunes. I won't do that because
04:35
I'm very clumsy, and also I have an insurance policy. I cannot harm myself when I'm shooting,
04:39
but they will do slides through the dunes. And that was fun to watch. They had the greatest time.
04:46
It was fun to watch. It was fun. It was fun to have the whole London subway for us. I mean, that part.
04:59
They changed some of the aspects of that slide because in reality you have this
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bumps, these things that avoid people to do it, but they took them out. Of course, otherwise they won't be seen.
05:30
Was that in any way a childhood fantasy of yours?
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No, it was very uncomfortable to do.
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Hmm. Ah, yeah.
05:45
Is this Barcelona? Yeah, this is Barcelona, the attraction park in Barcelona for Woody Allen's movie
05:53
Big Cristina Barcelona. I see why you love your fiance. He's very charming.
05:57
Yes, yes, he's lovely. And very well suited to you. I don't think I like the way you say that.
06:05
And that day again, they shut down the whole thing for us to shoot the scene, and it was fantastic to be
06:11
in such a beautiful area in summertime with those beautiful actresses playing a romantic lead.
06:20
It's like, wow, what a gift. It was fun. And Barcelona is an amazing city, as we all know.
06:27
And the view of the ocean of Barcelona from this park, it's one to see, for sure. It's a must, if you go there, to go here to this area.
06:37
The way that movie was shot, it was very fast. He does one take. We were, as an average, shooting like five hours per day,
06:45
no more than that. The rest of the time he was playing the clarinet. And it was summertime in Barcelona,
06:51
which means it was packed. It was a city packed of tourism, tourists. But also it had this magic
06:58
flavor to it of summer, Spain, the coast, the sea. And it was a celebration of what it means to be
07:07
in the Mediterranean coast. I've always seen this movie as a big, nice, intelligent, smart, funny joke
07:13
about prototypes. The Latin lover and the American girls that fall in love with them and the crazy
07:20
Spanish, Latin woman that gets in the picture. You know, I always have your best interest.
07:26
Well, not when you try to kill me. Yeah, that, that small detail. Yes.
07:31
And that's what it is. And beneath, underneath that, there is a criticism about all these prototypes
07:38
that we put in our heads. But some people, I guess, especially in Spain, took the movie like literally,
07:44
and they thought that we were making a portrait of Spain. That's not what it was. It was a big,
07:52
smart, funny joke about prototypes. And it worked pretty well, I think.
08:00
Well, that's home. The Retiro Park in Madrid. All my childhood and part of my youth have been here,
08:08
right in this spot around this area. This is the pond. And lately, I took Conan O'Brien to row a boat
08:17
with me. That was fun. He came to Spain and we did this episode of Conan Must Go and we had a blast.
08:23
How much I love that guy. He's so funny. He's so smart and intelligent and generous. And he's really a
08:31
genius. Is it Javier Bardem? Is it Bardem? Yeah. I was forced to be here. I would have loved to take
08:39
him home and to be at home and give him a meal and cook for him and do that. But we were on a schedule.
08:47
It was really extraordinary.
08:49
This is April Love. This is Bali. I think this is the little beach where Julia Roberts and I had a scene
09:03
where I invited her to come with me to my boat and sail away and start a new life. And she prefers not to.
09:14
Great scene. And what a luxury to have the chance to work with her. Amazing actress. Great woman.
09:21
I have the perfect camping spot. Just you and I and 400 pirates.
09:29
I remember being able to, again, going to some locations that you may not know or heard of unless
09:39
a good location team of the movie will take you. And, uh, and once we get there, once we get there,
09:45
I was, I'm mesmerized by the quality of the water and the beauty of it. And, and it was all for us
09:53
because we have to shut it down for us to be able to shoot the movie. So it was like a luxury like to be
09:59
there on our own and, and be able to jump in the water with no body around.
10:04
You are slender and elegant in the distance, but up close you are round and fresh.
10:17
Hmm. Let me guess. What is this?
10:21
This is, uh, India, no? No? It's not the Taj Mahal? What is it? I don't recall. What is it? You have to
10:32
handle with this. I don't recall.
10:34
This is from F1. This is Abu Dhabi. Oh, wow. This is Abu Dhabi. Okay.
10:43
I'm offering you an open seat in Formula One. The only place you could say, if you win, you are
10:51
the absolute best.
10:55
Shooting in Abu Dhabi in the city instead of the desert for Dune was a different, different experience
11:03
because we were all immersed in the racetrack and it was all about the racing week and being in the
11:10
race. And we couldn't see much of what it was out of the racetrack, but the energy that involved for
11:18
all the crew and the team and, uh, to be so awake and alert about what we have to accomplish in the
11:27
movie while they were actually doing the race, it was very, very high adrenaline, adrenaline high,
11:35
because we have to really do our takes, our shots in a very short period of time and do it
11:44
well, because we cannot do different takes. We cannot go back and redo it. So it was a very energetic
11:52
moment of focus and teamwork. I love that.
11:58
You plus him. Boom. I got a team.
12:04
The end of the movie and where we shoot the end of the race competition in Abu Dhabi, that's by far
12:12
the moment where I felt absolutely taken by the craziness of what we were doing because we
12:19
accomplished it. And it was also the wrap for the film. They've made it. We've been able to really
12:26
belong to the F1 world and be really inside the kitchen with, along with them. And not only that,
12:34
but we, we can also share the podium with the real drivers. It was crazy. All of that, while the
12:41
fireworks were exploding and the people were cheering up, it was, it was a day to remember for sure.
12:47
I have heard that you do not like driving yourself. It's not that I don't like driving. It's like,
12:53
I don't, I barely drive. Yeah. I mean, I can't take a car from here to there, but no more than that.
12:59
Did the movie change that for you? Was there a moment where you...
13:02
No, it made it worse. Like, those guys go way too fast for me. I mean, no, no, not interested in that.
13:10
Well, I did it. How do you think I did it? I don't know. I tried my best, I guess, in all these locations.
13:17
I don't know.
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