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Why Star Archie Madekwe’s Tall Height Was a Serious Problem Shooting ‘Gran Turismo’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, Grand Turismo tells the
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  Speaker 1: incredible true story of a race car driver, Jan Martin Burrough,
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  Speaker 1: played by actor Archie Medecui.
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  Speaker 2: Now, one thing casual racing fans may not know is
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  Speaker 2: that the average height of race car drivers is around
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  Speaker 2: five to nine. The lighter the driver, the faster of
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  Speaker 2: the car. Chan's actually above average at five to ten,
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  Speaker 2: but Archie stands just under six five, which created a
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  Speaker 2: whole world of issues on the set that Archie and
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  Speaker 2: director Neil Blomkamp had to navigate because the cars are
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  Speaker 2: constructed for a much smaller guy. Neil tells a Hollywood reporter,
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  Speaker 2: he's so tall that we had to make custom considerations.
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  Speaker 2: We had to pull seats out of cars and give
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  Speaker 2: him one that made him comfortable so he could fit properly.
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  Speaker 2: We also had issues with cameras. It's so claustrophobic in
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  Speaker 2: the car that we had to cut at the top
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  Speaker 2: of his eye line because the camera couldn't physically tilt
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  Speaker 2: up anymore. It got to the point where I referred
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  Speaker 2: to the car as the Iron Maiden and how much
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  Speaker 2: he hated it. But when he saw the film, he said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: that was worth it. He suffered, but it puts the
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  Speaker 2: audience there with him. Grand Turismo is in theaters.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.