Brad Pitt reclaimed his movie star status this year in a big way with the releases of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and James Gray’s “Ad Astra,” the former of which is widely expected to win him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Pitt has emerged over the last decade and a half as one of the most prolific producers in Hollywood and one of the most underrated great actors of his generation, and it definitely wasn’t by accident. In a new interview with The New York Times, Pitt reveals that he made a conscious decision to shift his career following the making of Wolfgang Petersen’s historical war epic “Troy.”
“I had to do ‘Troy’ because — I guess I can say all this now — I pulled out of another movie and then had to do something for the studio,” Pitt says. “So I was put in ‘Troy.
“I had to do ‘Troy’ because — I guess I can say all this now — I pulled out of another movie and then had to do something for the studio,” Pitt says. “So I was put in ‘Troy.
- 12/11/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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