F1: The Film might have simply launched, nevertheless it looks as if it received’t be the final time Brad Pitt stars in a sports activities film.
Pitt was a visitor on a Wednesday episode of the New Heights podcast, hosted by Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ tight finish Travis Kelce and former Philadelphia Eagles’ middle Jason Kelce. Throughout their dialog, Jason requested the Oscar winner if he desires to do one other sports activities movie after watching his “very cinematic” movie, F1.
The actor responded, “I really like a sports activities film after they work … It’s the best. I look again at Gene Hackman and Hoosiers and [Robert] Redford and The Pure, there’s even one thing extra. Sports activities for me, even one sport is a whole lifetime.”
Whereas chatting with the Kelce brothers, who’ve each received Tremendous Bowl championships, he continued, “We watch you guys, we watch your destiny. We watch the way you cope with adversity, the way you battle by way of it and it’s actually an incredible metaphor for a lifetime.”
Earlier than F1, one in all Pitt’s most cherished tasks was in 2011’s Moneyball, which The Hollywood Reporter included in its record of the very best baseball motion pictures of all time. The movie was nominated for six Academy Awards, together with a nom for Pitt in the very best actor class.
“Once we get it proper in these sports activities motion pictures and I felt like we actually received it proper in Moneyball in a stunning, lovely means so as to add to that lexicon,” he mentioned. “I feel this one does too on a extremely massive stage as a result of the racing might be probably the most visceral racing expertise you’ll ever have. However like all nice sports activities motion pictures, after they’re nice, there’s additionally a narrative there. You’re moved by it. And had been humorous as fuck. So, we received that to ship it, however this type of non secular ending to all of it, I’m actually proud about.”
Elsewhere within the podcast, Pitt defined that he enjoys watching what the brand new technology of actors is doing. “I wish to see what they’re up towards and the best way they negotiate and work their means by way of it. They take pleasure in it extra. We had been extra uptight and it needed to be about appearing and ‘You didn’t promote out, you didn’t promote out.’ However now it’s like, ‘We could be artists in many alternative arenas, so let’s do it and let’s take pleasure in it.’”
Nevertheless, he concluded by sharing some recommendation. “However additionally they get caught up in you ‘need to have a franchise’ or ‘need to have a superhero.’ However I preserve saying, ‘Don’t! Don’t! Sooner or later they’ll die.’”