Truth behind Brad Pitt 'faint' at Las Vegas Grand Prix - actor's fall is not what it seems

Brad Pitt terrified his fans aft helium seemed to faint aft a scary clang astatine the Las Vegas Grand Prix, but a fake Formula One team, APX GP, cleared everything up connected Twitter

Brad Pitt, 60, sent fans spiralling erstwhile helium appeared to faint aft suffering done a gruesome mishap astatine the Las Vegas Grand Prix connected Saturday.

In videos and photos that took implicit societal media pursuing the event, Brad was seen lasting by a car with fume surrounding him and the crashed vehicle. Wearing afloat achromatic racing leathers and a helmet, the histrion stumbled distant from the wreck, seeming to conflict to support his balance. Brad lone got a fewer yards from the car, earlier helium fell implicit successful a dormant faint, look first.

We present cognize precisely what caused the shocking scene, and thankfully, it wasn’t what it seems. Brad was astatine the Grand Prix filming for a new Formula One movie he’s starring in, and his aesculapian exigency was conscionable a stunt.

In the film, F1, which is acceptable to beryllium released successful June 2025, Brad plays operator Sonny Hayes, portion of a fictional squad called APX GP. Rising prima Damson Idris plays his teammate Joshua, with the formed joined by different talented actors specified arsenic Javier Bardem and Tobias Menzies. Running the amusement is Joseph Kosinski, who directed deed movie Top Gun: Maverick.

The movie seems precise dedicated to mounting up a existent Formula One experience, and adjacent has a Twitter leafage for APX GP, wherever they cleared up immoderate rumours that Brad’s mishap was existent portion staying successful quality and hinting astatine the crippled of the film.

The archetypal tweet aft the nationalist incidental read: “A pugnacious nighttime successful Vegas. Sonny sustained an wounded successful qualifying and won’t contention time arsenic helium focuses connected recovery. The squad is afloat down him, and Joshua volition transportation our hopes connected contention day.”

Next, the fake squad posted: "During qualifying, Sonny sustained a important interaction requiring contiguous aesculapian evaluation.Incidents of this magnitude are ever taken seriously, and Sonny's wellness remains our apical priority.

“While Sonny is different stable, helium volition not enactment successful tomorrow's contention arsenic helium focuses connected recovery. The full squad stands down him, and we'll supply updates erstwhile available. Joshua volition contention solo tomorrow, carrying the squad forward."

They past followed up again the adjacent day, writing: “It’s contention time successful Vegas, and portion the squad rallies down Joshua, our thoughts stay with Sonny arsenic helium recovers from yesterday’s incident. This one’s for the team, for Sonny, and for everyone supporting america done the highs and lows. Joshua, we’re with you each the way.”

Brad’s quality Sonny was revealed to person his ain leafage connected X, and yet wrote: “After my qualifying incident, I was checked overnight by the medics. I americium doing sore but okay. Under aesculapian advice, I volition not beryllium participating successful tonight’s #LasVegasGP. I privation Joshua and the remainder of the squad bully luck for the race.”

So, portion Brad Pitt’s faint was conscionable a movie stunt, it gave distant immoderate hints that his upcoming relation mightiness beryllium 1 of his astir melodramatic yet.

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