Brad Pitt on 'F1 The Movie': 'It's everything on so many levels'

"I still don’t know how we got away with it,” says Oscar winner Brad Pitt about how he, alongside producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joseph Kosinski, made “F1 The Movie,” which Pitt describes as “the most visceral driving experience that’s ever been put on film.”

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And what they got away with was putting Pitt and his fellow actor Damson Idris into professional race cars and filming them at top speeds. “The forces in these cars — the high-speed corners — the physics of it all want to rip your head from your shoulders. It’s shocking what these cars can do, and it’s a high unlike any high I’ve ever experienced before. We just couldn't capture it any other way.”

In “F1 The Movie,” Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, dubbed “the greatest that never was” and FORMULA 1’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse.

Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to FORMULA 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world.