What is behind the work of dressing an ex-F1 promise that is now nomadic race-for-hire? Or a fearless young racing phenom? Or the bold owner of a F1 team?
Learn about this and more in this special Q&A with costume designer Julian Day, whose extensive career includes titles such as Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman, after the screening of the film.
F1
dir: Joseph Kosinski
with Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Javier Badem
USA | 2015 | cert. PG13
Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes was FORMULA 1’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate, Ruben Cervantes, owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to FORMULA 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. He’ll drive alongside Joshua Pearce, 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 1, your teammate is your fiercest competition—and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone.
ABOUT JULIAN DAY
Julian earned BAFTA, CDG and Critics Choice nominations for his work on the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, starring Rami Malek. His designs can also be seen in Dexter’s Fletcher’s Rocketman chronicling the life of Elton John, for which he received the Hollywood Critics Association Award, the Phoenix Film Critics Society Award and again picked up CDG and Critics Choice nominations.
Julian has collaborated extensively with Director Ron Howard, designing costumes for Inferno, In the Heart of the Sea and Rush, for which he received a Satellite Award Nomination for Best Costume Design, and on the Emmy-nominated series Genius for Fox Network. Julian has worked several times with Director Tom Harper on The Scouting Book for Boys, Demons for ITV and the BBC drama Dis/Connected. Other television credits include BBC thriller Page Eight directed by David Hare, Peter Kosminsky’s Britz, and Sarah Gavron’s This Little Life.
Other varied film credits include Otto Bathurst’s Robin Hood, Susanna White’s Our Kind of Traitor, Burr Steers’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio, Lasse Hallström’s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Rowan Joffe’s Brighton Rock, Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy, Anton Corbijn’s Control, Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca, Lena Dunham’s Catherine Called Birdy, Tom Harper’s Heart of Stone, Dan Levy’s Good Grief and he has most recently finished filming Running Man with Edgar Wright.
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