Fun Facts About The Eternally Beautiful Brad Pitt
William Bradley Pitt, better known as Brad Pitt, is considered part of Hollywood royalty thanks to his outstanding career, which to date has accumulated more than 80 titles with his name in the credits, including Inglourious Basterds, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Snatch, Fight Club, 12 Monkeys, 12 Years a Slave and Meet Joe Black. And although his work is celebrated by critics and the public, he had not achieved the recognition of the academy, but after three nominations, he finally won the Oscar for his participation in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the acclaimed film. by Quentin Tarantino.
And although his personal life has not been without controversy, he has managed to separate it from his work and thus shine for more than 30 years in the film industry.
But we always want to get to know Brad the eternal beautiful better, so here are some things you probably didn't know about him.
1-Pitt at some point wanted to have a traditional career and life; an ordinary human. And for this he enrolled at the University of Missouri, where he trained to be a journalist. However, as his graduation approached, the cinema caught his attention and he decided to leave his studies, this just two weeks after graduating. After that he moved to Los Angeles, where he began taking acting classes. And well, the rest is history.
2-And like several Hollywood actors, his first years in search of success were not easy. Before fame, he held various jobs, including as a restaurant mascot and a stripper driver. And it was precisely the latter who changed his life, as he took a dancer to an acting class where he met Roy London, the great master of acting, whom, to this day, he is grateful for his teachings and even confessing that he made him the actor he is now.
3- he is a relative of Barack Obama, although very distant. Apparently, the actor is a ninth-degree cousin of the former president, as revealed by the Genealogical Society of New England after an exhaustive study of the genealogical tree of both personalities.
4-We almost saw him as Neo in the Matrix. Yes, as you read. His name was one of those that was considered for the title role of the hit film released in 1999, but plans changed - for the better, right? - And the role was left to Keanu Reeves.
5-With Jennifer Aniston they met on a blind date organized by her agents in 1998, and not in the Friends chapter, as many think. They got married in 2000, but 5 years later they separated. The reason? Brad met Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, with whom he had great chemistry and for which he left Jen. The nice thing is that they are currently great friends, and apparently they have smoothed out the rough edges of the past.
6-But the meeting of Brad and Angelina on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith was not as casual as it seems. There are rumors that say that Nicole Kidman rejected the role and was replaced by Angelina Jolie, but there are others who say that it was Brad Pitt who explicitly asked for the change, since there was no chemistry with Nicole.
7-There is a strange link between the actor and the numbers 7 and 12. He has appeared in three films that have the number 7 in their title: Se7en, Seven Years in Tibet, and Sinbad: The Legend of the Seven Seas. On the other hand, he has also starred in three other films with the number 12 in their title: Twelve Monkeys, Ocean's Twelve, and 12 Years a Slave.
8-And speaking of Se7en (The seven deadly sins), he accepted the role in the film after rejecting another. Which? The astronaut in Apollo 13, the film with Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard.
9-Ryan Reynolds told in an interview that they wanted Brad for a cameo for the movie Deadpool 2, but they thought that he would charge dearly. However, the actor only asked for a coffee: Reynolds couldn't believe it, and so his response to the film's producers was: "Do you mean he wants a coffee shop franchise or a single cup of coffee?" It turned out it was just a cup. He did it as a huge favor and, in Reynolds' words, it was "the most beautiful thing anyone could have done for us."
10- he was banned from entering China several years after his role in Seven Years in Tibet in 1997, a film that portrays the relationship of the Chinese regime with the Himalayan region. After this, Pitt could not step on this territory for 17 years, until in 2016 they allowed him access again to promote a movie.
11- He has his own production company called Plan B Entertainment, which he founded with Brad Gray and his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston. Following his divorce from Aniston, Gray was left as CEO of Paramount Pictures and Pitt as sole owner. Since then several films have been produced by him, including 12 Years of Slavery and World War Z.
