![]() “I looked at it as extra rehearsals,” Mann said. ![]() ![]() That morning, Mann took the train up from Rome, where he spent the previous day auditioning 26 actors opposite Adam Driver, who will star in the film. Mann was at the production offices of his 14th feature film, “Ferrari,” which will trace three months in Enzo Ferrari’s life, culminating with the 1957 Mille Miglia - an infamous, and tragically fatal, road race. It was a May afternoon in Modena, Italy, a small city in the north of the country. After Mann’s decisions were finalized, a construction team would be dispatched to a nearby site to build a replica of the 1957 factory. “This should be a pattern,” he said, pointing at the windows, “so that you have almost a musical rhythm, like, two-two-two-two-two, then it breaks, to drive your attention to the entryway.” Around him, a half-dozen collaborators listened closely. ![]() Michael Mann stood at the center of a long, sunlit room, scrutinizing a model of the Ferrari factory as it looked in 1957, thinking about how to improve its appearance. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. ![]()
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