Actor Adam Driver didn’t hold back his feelings after being questioned by a fan about a “cheesy” crash scene in the biographical drama “Ferrari.”
“What do you think about [the] crash scenes? They looked pretty harsh, drastic and, I must say, cheesy for me,” an audience member asked the actor during a post-screening Q&A on Sunday at Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival, per Variety. “What do you think?”
Driver said, “F*** you, I don’t know? Next question.”
Adam Driver reacts to someone asking about & criticizing the crash scenes in ‘FERRARI’ as “pretty harsh, drastic and cheesy.”
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Driver portrays Enzo Ferrari in the film about the life of the legendary Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur. The film, based on the 1991 biography “Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine” by motorsport journalist Brock Yates, takes place in 1957 as Ferrari’s company risks it all amid looming bankruptcy. They enter the Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.
“Ferrari fundamentally is about the big race, where Mann’s virtuoso technique kicks in and cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt’s cameras put us at the wheel or in the path of the speeding roadsters to thrilling effect,” film critic David Rooney wrote in his review of the movie for The Hollywood Reporter. He called the film “unapologetically masculine” and praised Driver’s performance specifically.
“Not without flaws, but mostly fast and furious, with a brain,” Rooney said of his overall perception.
“Ferrari” director Michael Mann said he was inspired by this story because it was “profoundly human.”
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“When a character is as dynamic and operatic as [Ferrari] is, the more specifically you get into the man, the more universal he becomes,” Mann told “The Hollywood Reporter” during an August 2023 interview. He said Ferrari had “many parts of him [that were] in opposition to each other, [and that] kind of resonated with me as the way life is.”
“So, either it’s melodramatic or profound or sad — or because I’m as oppositional as he is — I don’t know,” Mann added. “But that is what it was.”
During the same conversation, Driver said of the role: “Understanding a different culture is the thing I love the most about being an actor. You are forced to empathize with someone who’s different than you — and without judgment, look at their life honestly. It’s a weird job, but it’s what I’m interested in.”
“Ferrari” will be released in theaters nationwide on December 25, 2023. It originally debuted at the Venice International Film Festival in August.