Kerry Condon is spilling the beans on what it was really like to work with Hollywood big shot Brad Pitt.
Yes, the Irish actress stars alongside Pitt in the new action drama film F1, where she plays Kate McKenna, the race director of the fictional APXGP team and the first female technical director in Formula 1.
Pitt, on the other hand, portrays veteran driver Sonny Hayes, while Damson Idris is young rookie driver Joshua Pearce.
Speaking at a press day at UK racing track Goodwood, Condon said how it was “a dream come true” to star alongside Pitt and joked that her aim was to become “one of his top ten co-stars”.
“Working with Brad was like a dream come true. He’s been in the business so long and he’s worked with some amazing people.
“I just wanted to be in his top ten co-stars. That was my aim.”
Touching on what it was like to work with Idris, Condon added: “Working with Damson Idris was fun. He’s like a child, he has so much energy.”
The highly anticipated movie sees Hayes, a racing star in the 1990s, forced to retire from Formula One after a terrible crash but is asked to return by team owner and friend, Ruben (Javier Bardem), to mentor rookie prodigy Joshua “Noah” Pearce (Damson Idris).
Shot during real Grand Prix events over the past two years, the film captures the thrill of the racing world firsthand.
“The stuff we shot at the grand prix was so timed to a tee,” Condon noted.
“We had to shoot pitstop stuff during the actual Grand Prix races so I felt very much like I was part of a team at the Grand Prix – I was nervous, excited, I didn’t know what was going to happen. It was amazing, really amazing.”
F1 races into cinemas this summer, on 25 June.
