‘Ferrari’s Adam Driver Proud To Represent A Movie “That’s Not Part Of The AMPTP” – Venice
deadline.comMichael Mann’s epic historical drama Ferrari will drive onto the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival this evening, one of the major titles in competition here on the Lido.
It’s also one of the key films to secure a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement, allowing stars of the movie to do promotion. This afternoon, Adam Driver, who plays Enzo Ferrari, told the Venice press corps he was “very happy to be here to support this movie,” but also, “very proud to be here to be a visual representation of a movie that’s not part of the AMPTP and to promote the SAG leadership directive which is an effective tactic which is the interim agreement.” The agreement, he noted helps “stop the bleeding a little bit so people in IATSE and SAG can go to work.” Another objective, he continued, “is to say why is it that a smaller distribution company like Neon or STX International can meet… the dream version of SAG’s wishlist, but a big company like Netflix and Amazon can’t?” Mann agreed that he is in “total solidarity with SAG and the writers guild,” noting, they made the movie by forgoing a large percentage of salaries. “No big studio wrote us a check, that’s why we’re here in solidarity with both unions.” But it wasn’t all strike talk today as Driver, co-star Patrick Dempsey and Mann discussed the making of the film which is set in 1957 when ex-racer Enzo Ferrari is in crisis.
Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura (Penélope Cruz), built from nothing 10 years earlier. Their volatile marriage has been battered by the loss of their son a year earlier, and Ferrari struggles to acknowledge his son with Lina Lardi (Shailene Woodley).
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