“He really is Benjamin Button”: 60-Year-Old Brad Pitt Will Make Sexiest Man Alive Patrick Dempsey Look Bad With His Latest F1 Transformation

Brad Pitt continues to charm audiences and defy expectations regarding men in their 60s.

Brad Pitt, Patrick Dempsey

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  • Brad Pitt is currently shooting for the sports action film F1.
  • Pitt looks almost 10 years younger in set photos/videos despite being 60.
  • He looks more youthful and effervescent than 2023's Sexiest Man Alive winner Patrick Dempsey
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Brad Pitt has been entertaining audiences for more than 30 years in the industry and has featured in several iconic films. The actor is one of the most celebrated and well-respected performers being nominated for three Oscars and winning in 2020 for Best Supporting Actor for Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. 

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Patrick Dempsey as Derek Shepherd in Grey's Anatomy | ABC
Patrick Dempsey as Derek Shepherd in Grey’s Anatomy | ABC

In addition to his talent, his charming looks and endearing personality have always made women swoon over him since the 90s. The Wolfs star has aged gracefully into his 60s and he looks almost 10 years younger in the set pics/videos of his F1 film. Many people consider him a much bigger draw than 2023’s People’s Sexiest Man Alive winner, Patrick Dempsey.

Brad Pitt Proves He’s The Real-Life Benjamin Button With His Latest On-Set Video

Brad Pittplays a retired racer named Sonny Hayes in F1 | Warner Bros
Brad Pitt plays a retired racer named Sonny Hayes in F1 | Warner Bros

Brad Pitt is now at the point in his life and career where he is choosing projects that he deems appropriate for his stardom as well his ones that bring in a new challenge. Pitt has gone through highs and lows as an actor and is one of the bonafide movie stars from the 90s who still commands a huge fan following.

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Pitt is now 60 and is currently shooting for his upcoming sports drama film F1. The 12 Monkeys star looked as lively and effervescent as ever as he arrived on set (in an Instagram video). The actor is seriously aging backward, like his character in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and looks way younger than his contemporaries like Patrick Dempsey, who is 58.

Fans are still shocked at Pitt’s almost youthful look with krischer82 commenting “He Looks 20 years Younger, a miracle has happend”. Another fan john450c made a reference to Benjamin Button writing “He really is benjamin button!! Dude is 60”. At that age, he defies every expectation and continues to change audiences all the way.

Pitt and his Interview With The Vampire co-star Tom Cruise are two movie stars who continue to seek challenges at their age, whether it be physical or artistic, with the projects they are currently filming. While the Meet Joe Black star engages in some intense driving in F1, Cruise continues to perform more death-defying stunts that are more dangerous than his previous feats.

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Brad Pitt Was Not Pleased With The Final Cut of Legends Of The Fall

Brad Pitt played a emotionally complex character in Legends of the Fall | Sony Pictures Releasing
Brad Pitt played an emotionally complex character in Legends of the Fall | Sony Pictures Releasing

During the 90s, which was a seminal era for Brad Pitt, he starred in Edward Zwick’s Legends of the Fall. The film chronicled the lives of the Ludlow family and the changes that are brought to them by love, war, and the passage of time. Pitt played one of the brothers in the Ludlow family who is devastated by not being able to save his younger brother during WW1 while also having a complex relationship with his fiancée.

In Zwick’s memoir Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood, the director detailed how Pitt was anxious about the film’s proceedings and became volatile during the shoot. The actor was ready to quit the film as he was not pleased with the final cut, which omitted one shot that he loved. Zwick wrote (via Vanity Fair),

Brad’s anxiety about the movie never quite went away. When I showed Brad the final film, he wasn’t pleased. He felt I’d underplayed his character’s madness,” he recalled. “I had in fact cut only a single shot from the scene where Tristan is raging with fever, screaming as the waves wash over him on the schooner. But it was a shot he dearly loved, and it would have been little enough to leave it in, and I should have.

Despite Pitt not loving the film, the film was a turning point in his career and he continues to find new fans to this day. As of 2024, Pitt will reunite with his Ocean’s Eleven co-star George Clooney in Wolfs, which will hit theatres on September 20, 2024. He will then star in the highly anticipated sports action film F1 hitting theatres on June 27, 2025.

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Written by Rahul Thokchom

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Rahul Thokchom is a senior content writer at Fandomwire who is passionate about covering the world of pop culture and entertainment. He has a Masters Degree in English that contributes to the richness and creativity in his works.