Is there anything Charles Leclerc can't do? He speaks multiple languages fluently, is dashingly handsome, is phenomenally quick behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car – and has now made his acting debut in a new short film.
The young Ferrari driver stars in a remake of Claude Lelouch's 1976 cult film C’etait un rendez-vous, which famously features a continuous, single eight-minute shot taken from the front bumper-mounted camera of a very fast-moving car being driven through the streets of Paris.
Former Ligier driver Jacques Laffite was rumoured to have been behind the wheel in the original film, a claim which Lelouch has denied (he says he did the driving himself) while the car is said to have been Lelouch’s own Mercedes 450 SEL, with the sound then overdubbed with the engine noise of a Ferrari 275GTB.
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