Lewis Hamilton is producing a Components 1 film with Joseph Kosinski starring Brad Pitt.
The British racing star may have labored with the filmmaker on Prime Gun: Maverick had it not been for his conflicting work schedule.
In a brand new interview, Hamilton revealed he lobbied Tom Cruise to star in a potential Prime Gun sequel earlier than the 2022 movie was made.
“I’ll even be a janitor,” Hamilton recalled in a GQ interview speaking about his dialog with Cruise. “Simply let me be in it.”
When Maverick entered the casting stage, Cruise remembered Hamilton and supplied him a task as a pilot, however the racer needed to decline because of his schedule, one thing he now regrets.
“Firstly, I hadn’t even had, like, an performing lesson,” he mentioned. “And I don’t need to be the one which lets this film down. After which secondly, I simply actually didn’t have the time to dedicate to it. I keep in mind having to inform Joe and Tom — and it broke my coronary heart. After which I regretted it, naturally, once they present me the film and it’s: It may’ve been me!”
Though he didn’t have the chance to work with Kosinski in Prime Gun: Maverick, he’ll now work with him within the Components 1 movie.
“My level was: Guys, this film must be so genuine,” Hamilton mentioned. “There’s two completely different fan teams that we have now — like, the outdated originals, who from the day they’re born listening to the Grand Prix music each weekend and watching with their households, to the brand new technology that simply realized about it at this time by Netflix.”
He continued, “I felt my job actually has been to attempt to name BS. ‘This may by no means occur.’ ‘That is how it could be.’ ‘That is the way it may occur.’ Simply giving them recommendation about what racing is admittedly about and what, as a racing fan, would enchantment and what wouldn’t.”