After passing his driver’s test just two weeks before the start of shooting, Madekwe gets behind the wheel as real-life pro racer Jann Mardenborough.
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During the audition process, Madekwe remembers that it was “starting to look like the part [was] going [his] way.” That is, until the casting team told him that he had only two and a half weeks to pass his driver’s test and would be expected to be able to drive a race car. “I’m thinking, ‘Are you kidding me?’ ” Madekwe recalls. “I was working on another film, so I’m shooting in the day and, at night, taking [driving] lessons.
He passed. But to go from not driving at all to enduring practical stunts in a race car hitting 180 miles per hour is not an easy feat. Madekwe admits the transition was far from smooth: “The racing was just the worst thing I’ve ever done in my life. It really was the thing I was most excited for [when] signing on to this film. I just did not anticipate how physically taxing it was going to be.”
The very first time the actor took a lap around the racetrack at full speed, he felt sick. From that point on, Madekwe would vomit between takes of racing scenes: “I just would throw up and then get it together and then throw up.Gordon Timpen/Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection “It’s like being on a roller coaster blindfolded,” he continues. “There is just nothing that can train your body in a really short amount of time to get used to it. You’re in the car when it’s boiling hot, when you’re claustrophobic, you’re squished into these tiny little pods and you’re going 180 miles an hour. I’ve got [director Neill Blomkamp] in one ear giving me direction; I’ve got my driving instructor in my other ear telling me how to drive properly.
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