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Why Keanu Reeves HAD to Tell Formula 1 Champ Jenson Button's Story
Keanu Reeves has done respective stunts passim his career, but thing compares to driving astir with a nonrecreational contention car driver.
Former Formula 1 operator Jenson Button reminisced about the clip helium took the John Wick star for a rotation connected the racetrack portion moving unneurotic connected an upcoming F1 documentary for Disney+ connected the latest occurrence of E! News' integer bid DRIVE!.
"When I did immoderate filming with him astatine Silverstone, helium jumped in," Jenson exclusively told big Austin J. Mills. "I was like, 'C'mon Keanu, get successful the car.' And initially, he's like, 'No, no, no, no. That's forbidden. I can't leap successful your Formula 1 car.' But helium did, and his face, helium was truthful excited, and we couldn't get him out."
Jenson said Keanu was his "childhood leader successful movies," which made moving with him adjacent much special, particularly since the documentary volition absorption connected the twelvemonth Jenson won the F1 World Championship successful 2009.
Don't miss caller episodes of E!'s integer bid DRIVE! each Monday astatine 8 a.m. PT connected E! News' YouTube Channel.
"I raced with Braun, which is simply a backstage squad successful Formula 1, and we came retired and we bushed each the large guns, each the large manufacturers successful Formula 1," the sports prima recalled. "So, Keanu was like, 'You cognize what? We're gonna bash a documentary astir that truthful radical spot the existent communicative of what went down.'"
Just similar himself, Jenson said Keanu is "very passionate astir his automobiles, his motorbikes [and] his cars." And passionateness is what motivates Jenson, as helium told Austin the happening that drives him to win is "wanting to beryllium amended each day."
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"I won the World Championship, and I wanted to bash thing else," helium shared, "I went to different team. I went to Lewis Hamilton's squad McLaren due to the fact that I wanted that caller challenge. If there's not a challenge, I get bored and I privation to bash thing else, which is precisely what I've ever done successful my career."
One of the challenges helium faces—at slightest successful the U.S.—is besides his biggest driving favored peeve. "In the U.K., you person to propulsion implicit to the dilatory lane if you're driving slow," Jenson told Austin. "So, that's my favored peeve, it's radical driving successful the accelerated lane erstwhile they're driving slow. Get over!"
Hear much from Jenson—including his work with Ant Anstead connected the car institution Radford Motors—in the afloat clip above.
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