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After the commercial success of Brad Pitt’s film “F1”, the actor revealed, that he and Hollywood colleague Tom Cruise almost played in another racing drama.
Dispute: Who drives?
In an interview with “The National” Pitt said that the two were originally intended for “Le Mans 66 – against every chance”, but came across a major obstacle. “Tom and I were at Le Mans 66 for a while – against every chance with Joe [als Regisseur] “, said Pitt.” That was about ten years before the boys actually did it. And made it a great film. “
He continued: “Ultimately, it ran out that we both wanted to drive, and he wanted to play Shelby, I wanted to play Ken Miles. And when Tom realized that Carroll Shelby wouldn’t drive much in the film, it didn’t happen.”
The roles of the driver Ken Miles and the car designer Carroll Shelby later went to Christian Bale or Matt Damon, directed by James Mangold.
Common past, unexplained future
It has been over 30 years ago that Pitt and Cruise performed together in “Interview with a vampire” from 1994, based on Anne Rice’s bestseller novel-the idea that the two could come back together on the race track, Pitt’s interest. The actor also commented on rumors about a possible sequel.
“From a selfish point of view, I would like to drive again,” said Pitt, but wondered with regard to the end of the film how his figure could be installed sensibly. “Where does Sonny fit in? I’m not sure. Sonny is probably outside on the Bonneville Salt Flats and puts on speed records or something. In addition, I don’t know yet.”