Hunt Vs Lauda: The Next Generation [DVD]

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The first two years of Freddie’s life were spent in Wimbledon, south-west London, before his parents divorced in 1989, after six years married. Freddie and his elder brother, Tom, moved with their mother to a country cottage in Sussex. They would travel to London at weekends to visit their father, who soon started another relationship. Charlotte, we see you once again entering the very male dominated world of motorsport, why is this such a draw for you? However, I will say, that while Hunt vs Lauda: The Next Generation is an easy to watch docu-film, and accessible for all, ultimately it is geared more towards racing enthusiasts. Those who are fans of this sport, or who love to devour anything connected to racing will get the most out of it.

He would like children (“no more than two, it should be banned to have more”), and to make enough money to buy a full farm and rewild it. I often forget this, but I was physically handicapped – until I had an operation to remove my adenoids, for the first two or three years I was mostly deaf, which affected my balance. I was a dribbling mess and constantly crashing into things.”

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There are a few series in the offing and I continue to grow my production company Branded Studios with my partners here in the UK and in the US as we develop opportunities across the factual and format spaces. Long term I also see myself moving into the drama space, but all in good time. The secret is to always pursue the goals but not to forget to enjoy the journey, and boy I am enjoying the journey right now! Hunt Vs Lauda crew Freddie is now firm friends with Mathias Lauda, the racing driver son of Niki, James Hunt’s Austrian rival during the testy 1976 season. Together they have made a documentary, Hunt vs Lauda: The Next Generation, rekindling the competition. Freddie Hunt knows what you’re going to say. Yes, the spitting image. Yeah, it’s a bit spooky – sometimes his mother would look as if she’d seen a ghost. And yep, it’s mostly the hair, but also the good looks, the rakish manner, the clipped accent. Like father, like son…

Any motorsport fan knows these iconic surnames, none are more noteworthy in motorsport history. Therefore, when I was approached by Jose Thomas, the guy who had the vision to make a ‘Rush V2’ with the sons of the two legends James Hunt and Niki Lauda, it piqued my interest immediately. I got to work pulling apart the story, delving deep into the characters and shaping what I knew would be a deep dive into the worlds of these two iconic motorsport families and tell the story in a whole new way – one generation on. Freddie has “absolutely no recollection” of those first couple of years, and in fact sums up his early childhood as “pretty s-----”. Which turns out to be an understatement. To fund that, though, he needs to keep winning motor races. The goal is to win the Le Mans 24 hour race in 2026, to mark 50 years since his father’s championship win. It’s ambitious, he concedes, “but I think that’s a pretty good story, don’t you?”Ha, it’s funny really I have been enthralled by the smell of petrol and the sound of engines for as long as I can remember. It was never really anything to do with gender or the politics surrounding it, but rather the feat of human and mechanical excellence, the passion, the drive and I suppose the danger. It is something that has always impassioned and excited me.

So you have already made three or four racing films, what is new about Hunt Vs Lauda; The Next Generation? It was great. I also had to put my preconceived ideas aside and as a Director go in with a journalistic mindset to discover what is new, where the fresh stories were coming from and how these two guys Freddie Hunt and Mathias Lauda could captivate an audience in their own right. For me it was about getting the audience to connect with these two characters and, by the time the final race came on screen, to be shouting the name of the guy they wanted to win. It was wonderful journeying into the past, but more than that, it was about creating a story right now with these two individuals who in their own right are epic racing drivers, stepping out of the giant shadows cast by their fathers.

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Well, personally it was the fact I was recovering from a major car accident and going into the filming of this I was in the early stages of brain injury rehab. I didn’t share my struggles with many people and continued to travel and work 12-16 hour days whilst struggling to stand up sometimes. I’d be on a plane one minute, doing brain rehab the next, then running round with a camera on my shoulder directing a team. It wasn’t easy. But it was worth it.