F1 movie star Brad Pitt graced the red carpet for the film’s premiere in London on Monday alongside another motion picture star — Tom Cruise.
Pitt wore a green suit to the movie premiere, while Cruise rocked a charcoal gray suit.
Despite being two of the most iconic actors in Hollywood, Pitt and Cruise haven’t featured in a movie together since they made Interview with the Vampire over 30 years ago.
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While on its face, this meeting of stars appears random, there is a key relationship linking both actors.
Joseph Kosinski is the director of F1 and also created Cruise’s hit film Top Gun: Maverick, which hit the big screen back in 2022.
During an interview with GQ, Kosinski revealed that Pitt and Cruise were meant to star in a Ford vs. Ferrari film, though the budget never got the green light.
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Cruise anticipated seeing the movie back in April, when he expressed his excitement to see Pitt behind the wheel of a racing car.
“It’s great to see Brad driving,” Cruise said at CinemaCon 2025, according to CinemaBlend. “He’s a very good driver. Believe me, I’ve raced against him. When we were doing Interview with the Vampire, we’d go and race go-karts. We’d literally finish and go drive go-karts all night.”
According to Pitt, he lost the race against Cruise.
As for whether we will see them together in a movie, Pitt declared that he was open to starring alongside Cruise on one condition:
“Well, I’m not gonna hang my ass off airplanes and s–t like that,” Pitt told E! News.
“So when he does something again that’s on the ground, [then yes].”
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Pitt is currently promoting his latest racing film, F1. It is a big-budget motion picture that is one of the most anticipated movies of the summer.
Pitt stars as Sonny Hayes in the F1 movie — a former F1 driver who came out of retirement to mentor the young prodigy Joshua Pearce, played by Damson Idris.
Apple Films produced the movie, and it features seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton as a producer to help the film stay true to the sport.
There are real F1 cars and teams in the movie — alongside the fact that the movie was filmed at real racetracks on Grand Prix weekends.
“F1” hits theaters on June 27.
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