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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Damson Idris Had to Race an Actual F1 Car to Land His Lead Role in F1: The Movie · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest productor trying to make
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  Speaker 1: it big in movies.
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  Speaker 2: Any audition for a leading role in a blockbuster is
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  Speaker 2: going to be nerve racking, but Dampson interests. His final
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  Speaker 2: audition for his biggest project to date pushed his performance
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  Speaker 2: anxiety to a whole other level by forcing him to
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  Speaker 2: drive nearly two hundred miles per hour in the pouring rain.
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  Speaker 2: Dampson leads the cast alongside Brad Pitten this summer's high
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  Speaker 2: octane racecar Flack F one, directed by top gun Maverick
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  Speaker 2: filmmaker Joseph Kasinski, and the last thing producers needed to
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  Speaker 2: know before Dampson got the gig was that he could
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  Speaker 2: handle racing an actual F one car. Dampson tells he
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  Speaker 2: w the feeling I felt before was absolute fear, but
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  Speaker 2: driving up to one hundred and eighty miles per hour
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  Speaker 2: going from track to track around the world as an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity that I could never have dreamed of. But the
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  Speaker 2: audition was insane. The universe decided to rain that first
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  Speaker 2: day and I jumped in an F three thousand with
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  Speaker 2: cameras attached. It was really a test of maturity, humility,
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  Speaker 2: and patience f one. The movie races into theaters Friday.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood