‘It Was a Do-or-Die Environment’: ‘F1’ Cast and Crew Talk Behind-the-Scenes Details of the Action-Packed Racing Film

Following a London screening of “F1” hosted by Apple Original films and in partnership with Variety, the cast, crew and producers of the action-packed blockbuster discussed behind-the-scenes details on the film’s creation, including how the production got the real Formula One on board, the painstaking process of ensuring the sport was accurately depicted and more.

“If there’s a theme to take away, it’s the high degree of difficulty threshold that practically every single component of this film had to clear in order for the thing to exist,” said producer Jeremy Kleiner on the film’s highly technical production. And though the film is scripted, Kleiner pointed out that the integration of an unscripted real world event — a Grand Prix — posed a logistical challenge to the entire team. “I don’t know of a lot of films that were made in the middle of the Wimbledon final…There was a lot of pressure.