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

Auditioning for any movie can be a high-pressure situation...but Damson Idris had to prove himself...in ways you won’t believe...to star in F1: The Movie...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest productor trying to make
it big in movies, Any audition for a leading role
in a blockbuster is going to be nerve racking, but
Dampson interests.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
His final audition for his biggest project to date pushed
his performance anxiety to a whole other level by forcing
him to drive nearly two hundred miles per hour in
the pouring rain. Dampson leads to cast alongside Brad Pitten
this summer's high octane racecar Flick F one, directed by
top gun maverick filmmaker Joseph Kasinski, and the last thing
producers needed to know before Damson got the gig was

(00:31):
that he could handle racing an actual F one car.
Dampson tells he w The feeling I felt before was
absolute fear, but driving up to one hundred and eighty
miles per hour and going from track to track around
the world as an opportunity that I could never have
dreamed of. But the audition was insane. The universe decided
to rain that first day and I jumped in an
F three thousand with cameras attached. It was really a
test of maturity, humility, and Patience f one. The movie

(00:55):
is out now.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
That's direct from Hollywood.