Kerry Condon Talks Her Romantic F1 Scene with Brad Pitt, Including the Unexpected Item She Had for Breakfast Beforehand

Kerry Condon is teasing her and Brad Pitt’s romance in the upcoming F1 movie.

“We can say there’s a bit of romance in the movie,” Condon, 42, said as she appeared on the Tuesday, June 17 episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote F1, the new racing film directly inspired by the real-life Formula One racing circuit.

In the movie, Condon plays a character named Kate, an employee of an F1 team that Pitt’s character Sonny Hayes rejoins after decades away from the international racing circuit’s highest form of competition.

The trailer for the movie teases intense competition on and off the race track and the briefest moment of intimacy between Pitt and Condon’s characters. The Banshees of Inisherin actress gave Colbert, 61, a suggestive look after he asked if depicting a romance with Pitt’s character was “part of the draw” for her to take part in the new movie. 

“They scheduled it for half eight on a Thursday morning,” she said, noting that her call time for those scenes with Pitt was at 8:30 a.m. “I was like, ‘Ah, come on.’ So I had a vodka orange juice for my breakfast that morning.”

“We were supposed to be in Vegas on a night out or whatever,” she added, before telling Colbert, “You’re giving it all away!’ ”

“I play the team technical director, who’s basically like — if you don’t know anything about F1, I’m basically in charge of the car,” Condon told Colbert elsewhere during her Late Show appearance. 

An official synopsis for F1 describes Pitt’s character Sonny as Formula One’s “most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career.” The movie picks up three decades later when he is convinced to rejoin Formula One as part of his friend’s struggling team “for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world.” 

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“He’ll drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the team’s hotshot rookie intent on setting his own pace. But as the engines roar, Sonny’s past catches up with him and he finds that in Formula One, your teammate is your fiercest competition — and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone,” the synopsis adds.

Javier Bardem, Tobias Menzies, Sarah Niles, Kim Bodnia and Samson Kayo also star in the new movie, which is in theaters June 27.