Brad Pitt’s High-Speed Adventure: Unraveling Trivia from the F1 Track

Brad Pitt, the Hollywood A-lister, swapped the red carpet for the race track. He’s gearing up for a role in an upcoming movie set in the adrenaline-fueled world of Formula One racing. Directed by Joseph Kosinski of “Top Gun: Maverick” fame, the film sees Pitt’s character, a retired F1 racer, returning to the track to help a struggling team. Pitt even suited up and hit the grid at the British Grand Prix in July 2023.

Brad Pitt’s F1 Debut: A Hollywood Star on the Fast Track

1. From Silver Screen to Silverstone

In a first for Hollywood, Brad Pitt swapped the movie set for the race track. He drove a Formula One car at the 2023 British Grand Prix at the iconic Silverstone circuit in Northamptonshire, England. This was all part of the action for his upcoming F1 racing movie, directed by Joseph Kosinski and co-produced by seven-time world champion and Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton. Pitt even lined up on the grid with professional drivers.

Brad Pitt’s Character: A Comeback Story on the Fast Lane

2. The Return of the Racing Prodigy

In the upcoming F1 movie, Brad Pitt portrays a retired racer from the ’90s who had a career-ending crash. His character is coaxed back into F1 by a team owner, played by Javier Bardem. It’s a last-ditch effort to help a young phenom, played by Damson Idris, and the retired racer’s old team, who are languishing at the bottom of the leaderboard. Pitt and Idris were seen in racing suits on the grid at the Northamptonshire circuit, representing the fictional APXGP team.

F1 All Around: A Season of High-Speed Filming

3. Lights, Camera, Action… and F1

The film is made with F1, providing special access to racetracks and drivers. Filming for the movie is expected to continue throughout the F1 season, ensuring that the movie is as close to the real thing as possible.

Brad Pitt Mini Quiz

Now that you know all the facts about Brad Pitt’s F1 movie, how about a news quiz?

Brad Pitt Mini Quiz

5 Multiple-choice general knowledge questions on Brad Pitt-related subjects. No time-limit. How smart are you today?

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1. Apart from being an actor, Brad Pitt is what kind of artist?

Photo: Jussi Koivunen / Sara Hildén Art Museum

Musician.

Photographer.

Painter.

Sculptor.

On Sept. 17, 2022, Brad Pitt debuted his first works of art as a sculptor at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland. Pitt’s collection is part of a larger exhibition by British artist Thomas Houseago. A ceramic series by Australian musician Nick Cave is also on display alongside the actor’s pottery works. According to a sketchy tabloid report, Pitt became interested in pottery after his divorce from Angelina Jolie,

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2. What’s prosopagnosia?

Brad Pitt on the cover of the Aug. 2022 issue of GQ. Photo: Elizaveta Porodina

A difficulty with identifying letters.

A difficulty to distinguish or recognize the fingers.

Face blindness.

A difficulty to recognize familiar voices.

Prosopagnosia (from Greek prósōpon, meaning “face,” and agnōsía, meaning “non-knowledge”) is face blindness. In this condition, familiar faces, including one’s own, become difficult to recognize, while other mental and visual processing aspects are unaffected.

Does Brad Pitt Suffer from Face Blindness?

According to Brad Pitt, in an interview for the Aug. 2022 issue of GQ, he suffers from prosopagnosia, despite never having been officially diagnosed. In 2013, he told Esquire that his condition often made him want to isolate himself. “That’s why I stay home,” he said.

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3. On the set of which movie did Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie become a couple?

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True Lies.

By the Sea.

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie first became a couple on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

New Fact

The film now gets a reboot as a TV series for Amazon Prime, starring Donald Glover (Community, Atlanta) and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag). The Mr. & Mrs. Smith series is coming to Amazon in 2022.

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4. How many full-featured films did Quentin Tarantino direct up until 2021?

Screenshot: Real Time with Bill Maher / HBO

8.

9.

10.

11.

Counting from Reservoir Dogs to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (starring Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio), Quentin Tarantino directed nine full-featured films.

Fun fact: Tarantino confirmed he plans to retire after making one more film – his tenth – while promoting his “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” novel on “Real Time With Bill Maher” on Friday. June 25, 2021.

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5. What was George Clooney’s and Julia Roberts’s first movie together?

Screenshot: Ticket to Paradise / Universal Pictures

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

Money Monster.

Ticket to Paradise.

Ocean’s Eleven.

George Clooney’s and Julia Roberts’s first movie together was 2001’s Ocean’s Eleven, alongside Brad Pitt. However, they both appear in 1998’s Murphy Brown’s last episode – Him in a nod to his role in ER and her as one of the characters’ love-interest. Clooney and Roberts pair up in 2022’s Ticket to Paradise, released on Oct. 21. Watch the trailer.

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Sources

We cross-checked our trivia facts about Brad Pitt’s F1 movie with some of the world’s leading news outlets.

• BBC News: Brad Pitt films at Silverstone during F1 British GP weekend
• ESPN: Brad Pitt joins F1 drivers on the grid for the anthem at British GP
• Vanity Fair: Brad Pitt Hits The British Grand Prix Racetrack