Brad Pitt is an American actor born on December 18, 1963, in Oklahoma. He is also a movie producer and one of the most respected actors in and outside Hollywood. He rose to fame in David Fincher’s Fight Club, released in 1999.
In his early days, before rose to fame as a prominent actor in Hollywood, he had some odd jobs. One of them was being a chauffeur for strippers, taking them to parties with his mullet. He rose to prominent fame with Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean Eleven, released in 2001.
Brad Pitt Shines Light on His Early Life
Brad Pitt had a slow start in his career in Hollywood, unlike many others. Early in his career, he used to play in small movies and tv shows. Pitt played the role of a wild and aggressive person in a movie way back in 1995 called 12 Monkeys for which he was nominated for an Oscar and also won the Golden Globe Award.
Recently while he was out for the promotion of his new movie, Babylon, Brad Pitt shares with the interviewer that he used to have many odd jobs and he called them the “Mullet days”.
“Many odd jobs, one of them was driving strippers to their parties. Early days, I still had a mullet.”
Later he explains that he would not have been here if not for those odd jobs that he used to do. One day during his job, he met the right person who had essential connections in the industry.
“The first person I met who knew an actor, the young lady I was driving that night”
He also added how he almost quit his job but was persuaded for working another day, where he met a young lady who pointed him in the right direction. And now Brad Pitt is an A-list actor in Hollywood with an estimated net worth of over $400 million.
Brad Pitt’s Latest Update: Babylon
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie reunite again in 2022’s Babylon. The movie has a pretty big cast with Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire, and many others. The film portrays the decay, depravity, and scandalous excess leading up to the rise and fall of many ambitious dreamers in 1920s Hollywood. Damien Chazelle directed this movie to absolute perfection according to multiple critic reviews and comments. Chazelle commented that directing Babylon was one of the most challenging things he ever did.
“Just the logistics of it, the number of characters, the scale of the set pieces, the span of time that the movie charts — it all conspired to make it particularly challenging, but it was a challenge that was pretty exciting to take on”
Though the movie was a box-office failure with only $3.6 million worldwide in its opening weekend, Babylon received the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and Critic’s Choice Movie Award for Best Production Design. Brad Pitt won various awards that include Golden Globes, Academy Awards, Primetime Emmy Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and many others.
Babylon is available for streaming on Paramount+
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