Adam Driver attends a red carpet for the movie “Ferrari” at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2023 in Venice, Italy.Photo:Maria Moratti/Getty
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ThoughAdam Driverplays Ferrari founder Enzo Ferrari in his new movie, he never actually drove a car on the film’s set.
As Driver, 39, appeared at theVenice Film Festivalon Thursday alongside filmmaker Michael Mann and his costarPatrick Dempseyto promoteFerrari, the actor noted at apress conferencefor the movie that the production “wouldn’t let me drive the cars for insurance reasons.”
Though Dempsey — areal-life motorsports athleteon top of his acting career — portrays Ferrari racer athlete Piero Taruffi in the film and got to drive vehicles during filming, Driver never stepped behind the wheel of any of the vintage cars in the film.
“As I said before, making a movie is a miracle and they don’t want me touching the thing that’s the most expensive part,” Driver said during the press conference. “I don’t drive the cars, except in pre-production we raced Ferraris — obviously, newer Ferraris, can’t afford the other ones. And then at the beginning, I’m not driving that one, it’s on a dolly.”
“Again, they don’t trust me with small pieces of equipment. Big pieces of equipment like sandwiches, they will let me handle,” Driver joked.
Adam Driver attends a photocall for the movie “Ferrari” at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2023 in Venice, Italy.Andreas Rentz/Getty Images
Andreas Rentz/Getty Images
Driver is at the Venice Film Festival promotingFerrarithis week thanks to an interim agreement between the production and SAG-AFTRA, according toDeadline. While the Screen Actors Guild has beenstriking major Hollywood productions since July 13, a number of independent movies have received the go-ahead to continue filming or allow actors to do promotional work at this fall’s film festivals.
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During the press conference, Driver stated that he was proud to appear at the festival during SAG-AFTRA’s strike to provide “visual representation of a movie that’s not a part of the AMPTP [Alliance of of Motion Picture and Television Producers] to promote the SAG leadership directive, which is an effective tactic, which is the interim agreement.”
Adam Driver attends a red carpet for the movie “Ferrari” at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2023 in Venice, Italy.Maria Moratti/Getty
“A big company like Netflix and Amazon can’t [meet these demands], and every time people from SAG go and support a movie that has agreed to these terms, the interim agreement, it just makes it more obvious that these people are willing to support the people they collaborate with and the others are not," he told reporters.
Driver and Mann’s new movie released its first trailer Wednesday ahead of its world premiere at Venice. The film takes place in 1957 when Enzo Ferrari (Driver) “is in crisis,” according to an official synopsis for the movie.
Ferrariis in theaters this Christmas.
source: people.com
