Alex Babsky
“Bridgerton” star Simone Ashley has joined the solid of “F1,” the Formulation 1 racing film starring Brad Pitt.
The film follows Pitt as Sonny Hayes, a former Formulation 1 driver who returns to the game and companions with and mentors rookie Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris) on APXGP, a fictional eleventh crew on the grid.
Eagle-eyed followers noticed Ashley with Idris over the weekend on the British Grand Prix at Silverstone Circuit in Northampton, England, the place filming continued on the undertaking. Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem, Tobias Menzies, Sarah Niles and Samson Kayo spherical out the solid for the movie, which is being shot throughout precise Grand Prix weekends because the fictional crew competes in opposition to the titans of the game. Particulars of Ashley’s position are being saved below wraps. The primary teaser for “F1” was launched Sunday at the side of the race, which the movie’s co-producer, seven-time Formulation 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton, gained.
Directed by “High Gun: Maverick” helmer Joseph Kosinski, “F1” is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman (for Jerry Bruckheimer Movies); Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner (for Plan B Leisure); and Hamilton (for Daybreak Apollo Movies). The Apple Studios film is made in collaboration with Formulation 1. Ehren Kruger, who labored with Kosinski on “High Gun: Maverick,” wrote the screenplay. Copper CEO Penni Thow serves as govt producer.
“F1” shall be distributed in theaters and IMAX by Warner Bros. Footage internationally on June 25, 2025, and in North America on June 27, 2025.
The high-speed movie is the newest main transfer for Ashley, who’s greatest recognized for starring as Kate Sharma on “Bridgerton” — whose love story with Jonathan Bailey’s Anthony Bridgerton was the first focus of Season 2 — and Olivia on “Intercourse Training.” Subsequent up, she stars within the psychological thriller “This Tempting Insanity” and can govt produce and star within the rom-com “Image This” for Prime Video.
“I’ve all the time been very bold, ever since I used to be a child, however it doesn’t matter what I do, a small indie undertaking or huge studio manufacturing, I need to be sure it’s one thing I’m pleased with. That there’s an urgency for this story to be instructed,” Ashley stated whereas accepting the Worldwide Golden Nymph award for many promising expertise on the Monte-Carlo Tv Pageant final month.
About stepping behind the digicam, she added: “The extra expertise I’ve, the extra I’m studying that producing your individual work can actually change issues. You may inform tales that in any other case would by no means see the sunshine of day.”
Ashley is repped by CAA, Brillstein Leisure and Myman Greenspan.