Gran Turismo movie star David Harbour has revealed that by filming “real” racing sequences rather than relying on “green screen boxes” in the upcoming movie has enhanced his performance.
Talking to Sky News, Harbour – who plays Jack Salter in the movie – said that whilst it may be tempting and “cynical” to believe that most viewers wouldn’t know the difference between CGI and real racing scenes, by having real cars racing at 150mph, it “heightened his performance because the stakes are real”.
“This movie could’ve shot in green screen boxes – we could have done all this stuff – but there was something about putting together this team of people who are able to organise all these cars going at the same moment, stopping at the same moment, warming up the tires, all the technical elements,” Harbour said, as transcribed by Eurogamer. “It feels like, as an actor, you’re part of this big production.
