Javier Bardem Reveals How Easy It Was to Form a ‘Bromance’ with Brad Pitt for F1 

Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt’s onscreen dynamic in F1 mirrors their real-life bond.

“We knew each other very briefly, and then we have to create this bromance … which, with Brad Pitt, is not that difficult, if you ask me,” the Spanish actor, 56, quipped during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Monday, June 16.

“It’s like, ‘Okay, I get it,’ ” Bardem added of his costar’s appeal, joking of how Pitt, 61, reacted to him, “He had a harder time.”

Directed by Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick), F1 stars Pitt as Sonny Hayes, a former driver “who returns to Formula 1 at APXGP, a fictional team on the grid,” per a synopsis. He costars alongside Damson Idris, who plays his teammate, and Bardem, who plays, Ruben, the owner of the team Pitt’s character Sonny drives for.

The cast also includes Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Sarah Niles, Kim Bodnia and Samson Kayo.

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In his Monday chat with Jimmy Fallon, Bardem described Pitt as “sweet” and “funny,” and praised him for “driving an F1 car for real” on the set of their movie.

“180 miles per hour, on all those car racetracks, and producing. So many things he had to deal with,” added the Being the Ricardos star. “And he was always taking care of all of us and making sure that we got everything we needed.”

Bardem went on to say that Pitt spent time “giving us, the rest of the actors, the material to shine and putting himself on the back [burner]. It was amazing.”

“And when we were working on shooting the scenes, the relation(ship) just happened [between us],” he continued. “Because it’s so easy to work with him. He’s one of the greatest.”

Pitt recently opened up about his experience making F1 during a press conference in Mexico City on June 10, including how a racing film has been on his mind for some time.

“For me, it was just a no-brainer when [Kosinski, 51] had this audacious plan to embed us in the racing season, to put us actually in the cars,” Pitt said of starring in the sports drama. “It was just a dream come true.”

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The Oscar winner went on to reveal that he’d “been trying to do a racing film for literally decades” — but “for whatever reason, it just didn’t pan out.”

“I’m so grateful because the experience Joe gave us, putting us in the car, putting us in this ecosystem of the F1 racing season, with all the drivers, with the teams, was just an extraordinary experience,” Pitt added.

F1 revs into theaters June 27.