“I know a lot about sitting in a video gaming chair playing video games,” Harbour joked.
Mardenborough has been a name in professional racing around the world for over a decade.
In the film, Jann is played by Archie Madekwe.
He even manages an utterly convincing “u mad bro” at one point.
“‘You get in a wreck out here you might’t hit reset,’ that was scripted.
I think ‘u mad bro’ was maybe an extra, maybe it was scripted.
But according to Madekwe, it wasn’t awkward at all.
“It was great.
“It couldn’t have been better, and we really campaigned to keep Jann around.
This is a fun movie, not an immensely serious one.
“And so I obviously felt pressure in terms of, I wanted to do it justice for him.
I wanted him to feel proud.
There was none of that, and he was so generous.”
Interestingly, they gave two very different answers.
“It came from a talk show.
And there’ll be silence, and then it starts up again.
And I think it’s just because you want the magic to occur on the screen.
And there’s a bit of that, that I sort of had there.
So I think we were always nice to each other and pleasant.
And so in a sense, I kind of stayed away from him.”
Madekwe was a bit amused by Harbour’s answer.
“It’s so funny you say that because I really didn’t feel that.
And then we started doing this the very first scene, and it was so playful and so free.
“It was from the off we had that, which is really rare.
So I just felt very, very lucky, very privileged.”
Gran Turismo races into theaters on August 25.
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