There is a growing expectation and he loves being part of that phenomenon. F1: The movie It will finally arrive on the Apple TV platform on December 12 after being a huge hit in theaters. With a big budget and unprecedented accessibility thanks to the production of racer Lewis Hamilton, it was filmed during the 2023 and 2024 Formula 1 seasons, when it was common to see it on some weekends. Brad Pitt And Damson Idris on the starting grids wearing their official uniform as a driver assembly Javier Bardem He wears Tom Ford and Gucci in his role as team owner, and is a true dapper.
The first scene was filmed at the Silverstone Grand Prix, in July 2023, a race that Max Verstappen won in front of 160,000 people. Shortly after the start, two cars from the fictitious APXGP team were finally seen pulling up. Pete and Idris talk with Bardemwho remembers that it was a one-shot and had to come out right because the set was about to fade out so the real contestants could compete. “It was a shocking sound, pure adrenaline.”
It was the Spanish actor’s turn in Los Angeles to actually promote the film’s arrival on the platform and we took the opportunity to ask him what he thought about second chances, a very important topic in the film’s plot. F1: The movie. His team has not scored a point for two years, and Rubén Cervantes needs to turn to his rival in the 1990s when he was also a racer, Sonny Hayes, a driver who has left the category after a serious accident and agrees to come back to help him, becoming a mentor to a young racer, 30 years later.
“I’m a big believer in second or third chances, one hundred percent,” Bardem answers. “It’s normal to fail and what’s important is to stop and try again without hurting anyone along the way. That’s how we learn. There’s no rehearsal for this thing called life.”
He will also say that there are other topics that he found very interesting to address F1: The movie: Evaluating friendship, for example. He and Brad Pitt had to establish a relationship between two people who share a lot in common and he says their chemistry was instant. “Things happen or they don’t happen, I’m 56 and I’ve been doing this for 36 years, when they give you a script and you have to interact with someone you say ‘I hope it works out.’ And Brad walks into the room for the first time and boom! He is a very generous person. It worked so well, it was a real romantic relationship “As they call it here.”
The picture is entertaining. He recalls that Pitt and Idris were serious race car drivers, and how Hamilton, who he says is a likable person, was amazed that they spent six hours on the track.
Bardem admits he is a bad driver He wasn’t interested in Formula 1 yet, when he saw how many people were behind those cars. And the risks drivers take through pure emotion.
In Madrid you can usually see him with Penelope leaving the cinema and getting into a taxi.
They are about to film together again. A French director wrote a film about two architects who build an anti-apocalyptic shelter for a tech billionaire (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and thought of Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz in particular. He wanted a real life couple and he got it.
They met in a group (Important, important(Years later, they fell in love with another)Vicky Cristina Barcelona). Bunker You will explore the crisis of a fictional marriage, a great challenge.
Like playing another villain in his group, like the killer who earned him an Oscar There is no place for the weak. In 2026 he will be seen in the series The head is scary (Apple TV) as the villain, following in the footsteps of Robert Mitchum and Robert De Niro. He will certainly have another chance to aim for his first Emmy Awardwho this year many thought would win as the Menendez brothers’ father on the series Monstersbut Owen Cooper, the brilliant teenager from Adolescence.