The American film star and celebrity Brad Pitt is in Hungary to shoot at the Hungaroring before this weekend’s Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix. At the end of the day, he returns to a Budapest luxury hotel.
Brad Pitt now lives in Budapest
According to Blikk, a Hungarian tabloid, Brad Pitt, one of the world’s most famous actors, is performing in a Formula 1 film, so he is now in Hungary to shoot at the Hungaroring. The Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix will be held this weekend. HERE is our article on how you can travel to Mogyoród from Budapest.
Brad Pitt lives in a Budapest luxury hotel and travels to Mogyoród each day for the shootings. The Hungarian capital is not new to him. He has been here with his ex-wife, Angelina Jolie, and their children. HERE is an article about Angelina Jolie’s visit to Budapest last year.
The workname of the film is Apex, and its producer is seven-time Formula One World Championships, Lewis Hamilton. Pitt plays in the film together with Javier Bardem.
The future blockbuster Pitt is the pilot of a non-existent Formula 1 team, the APXGP. His character, Sonny Hayes, retires after an accident and starts to mentor young talents years later.
Secret shooting at Hungaroring
The shooting is happening in secret, but Blikk learnt that Pitt does not live in Mogyoród, where the Hungaroring is. He travels back each evening to a Budapest luxury hotel. Here is a video of Pitt walking around at the Hungaroring.
With some luck, everybody can bump into the American film star in Budapest or in Mogyoród.
Pitt has already been to Budapest. In the autumn of 2010, he arrived with his former wife, Angelina Jolie and their children and lived here for months. Jolie shot here her film about the Balkans war, “In the Land of Blood and Honey”. The producer and director was Jolie, and the film was her first commercial release as a director, depicting a love story set against the background of the Bosnian War. Some of the scenes were made at Budapest’s illustrious Square of Roses (Rózsák tere, Budapest’s 7th district).
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