Kerry Condon: “Brad non sembra una star del cinema quando stai lavorando con lui”

There is a moment in *F1: The Movie* when Kerry Condon’s character scolds Brad Pitt, who plays a hot-headed racing driver, in her strongest Tipperary brogue. “Well,” she tells him. “I’ve got news for ye!” Condon, who comes from Thurles, was encouraged to use her natural accent in this summer’s loudest, brashest Hollywood blockbuster: “They wanted me to be myself and bring a lot of myself to it. Even down to addressing people in the film as ‘lads’ instead of ‘guys’.” Fortunately, she stops short of calling Pitt a “bollix” or an “eejit”.

Condon has played many characters over her 26 years in the business — from her breakthrough performances in *Angela’s Ashes* (1999) and *Intermission* (2003) through to her Oscar-nominated role in *The Banshees of Inisherin* (2022). “But I don’t think I’ve ever seen an Irish female lead in a big, massive movie like this,” she says. “I’d never heard or seen that growing up. I was like, ‘Well, why shouldn’t she be an Irish person?’”

*F1: The Movie* tells the story of Sonny Hayes (Pitt), a nomadic racing driver summoned to save a failing Formula 1 team. Condon plays Kate, the team’s technical director, who maximises the ability of his cars.

I loved that she used her own accent. Wish she had called someone a bollix 🤪🤣

Surely this belongs in r/anywherethefuckelse