Gabriel Leone plays the Brazilian driver, three-time Formula 1 world champion in a new Netflix production
The actor Gabriel Leone, protagonist of the new series Seinewhich portrays the life of the legendary Brazilian driver on Netflix, provided new details about the production and exposed the challenges he experienced playing the three-time Formula 1 champion. In an interview, the actor said he spent at least a year “immersed “. in Ayrton’s story’ and revealed film makeup to look like Senna.
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Leone was born in 1993, a year before the death of Ayrton Senna during the San Marino Grand Prix, in Italy, in 1994. In an interview with the portal Ugo Glossthe actor spoke about his preparation and the responsibility his role entails.
“I remember that as a child I watched the videos, I saw some images of him, of the races, of the victories, of the theme of victory and this moved me. He had a very strong emotional charge, but I didn’t know the story in depth. I can say that the “Last year I was completely immersed in Ayrton’s story. It’s a great responsibility to play a guy like him, who represents so much to so many people, not only in Brazil, but around the world,” said the actor. .
When the cast of the production was announced and the first trailers were released, the physical resemblance between Leone and Senna attracted attention. The actor then revealed a trick to look like the pilot: “I use two cotton balls to swell my nose more,” he said.
Although the series tells different parts of Ayrton Senna’s life, the production is a fiction based on the driver’s life, underlines Leone, who also underlines the attention paid to respecting the driver’s relationship with important figures in his life, such as Galvão Bueno , Xuxa and Adriana Galisteu.
Seine It will have six episodes that will tell part of the 34 years of life of the pilot. Leone then highlights important people in the athlete’s life who, due to the dramaturgy or script, ultimately could not be included in the production.
“That’s why we say it’s fiction, even though it’s based on his life, it’s inspired by fact. But it’s fiction because you have to make artistic decisions so that what we’re doing works as a series, with the format that it has. ( …) I think it’s healthy to look at the series with this perspective,” the actor said.
Source: Terra
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