The director and star discuss filming that gruesome crash and the romantic side of that final exchange.
Warning: This article contains spoilers forFerrari.
Thats what we call ending with a bang.
Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’.Eros Hoagland/neon
I toned down one or two pieces of what happened, Mann tells EW.
No multiple cuts, which I thought wouldve been gratuitous.
There were many different accounts of what happened in that crash, Mann says.
Penelope Cruz in ‘Ferrari’.NEON
He investigated the accident for three years.
We’re not sure how that happened, but they found his body in three pieces.
That story came firsthand, thanks to Mann filmingFerrariin the Italian locations where the real events happened.
An elderly gentleman came out of the house and asked what we were doing, in Italian.
Through translators, he told us that he was there at the crash, Mann says.
He said that he was three years old.
They were having a typical Italian Sunday dinner at about 4 oclock.
Thats when I decided I wanted to have the scene with the family and the three-year-old toddler.
He wouldve been the three-year-old.
Mann continues, You encounter these things when you do the research.
And I was just emotionally moved to create that scene.
Its both a business transaction and a gesture of love.
It is not an old subject, it’s not a problem that is solved.
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