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So Scodelario’s character, Laura Harrison, is fictional
Fictional miniseries based on the life of Ayrton Senna da Silva, the Brazilian racing legend who won the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship three times. She is based on journalists who covered Ayrton Senna’s career. Scodelario’s family is also Brazilian, from Senna’s home state of São Paulo.
She is also fluent in Brazilian Portuguese
The first races of Senna’s career in England are shown on a race track next to a mountain range. There are no mountains in England – especially Norfolk, which is famous for its flat landscape. For all those who say “this is a one-sided story”, do you also think Amadeus is a one-sided story?
Is it also Ford vs Ferrari?
Maybe people don’t relate because they saw it happen from another perspective, from another narrative. Now think, if your brother got into a fight, would you ask him why or would you just jump in to protect him? That’s how I feel now, I don’t really care who was to blame back then, I know one thing, that kid watching races in the middle of the night, that kid shouting “Senna Senna”, that kid crying because his hero died was also me.
When I was little, I wished it had lasted forever
I was born a few years before he became an F1 champion, and every Sunday I was there to see him race his life. We Brazilians watched one of our own become the greatest F1 driver of all time, carrying our flag, telling everyone that he had all his people in that car, finishing that race in first place. I feel sorry for all those who don’t know what it’s like to hear out loud that character called Galvão Bueno saying “AYRTON SENNA DO BRASIL, CAMPEÃO MUNDIAL DE FÓRMULA 1” (“Ayrton Senna of Brazil, world champion of Formula 1”) and that song that played in the series, played on many of our weekends a few years ago, it’s a shame it didn’t last longer.