Sex symbol. One of the most popular contemporary actors: with fabulous charm and inevitable charisma. A successful producer whose film won an Oscar in 2014. Architect. Family man. Angelina Jolie's husband. If not for the last point, perhaps the question would arise - who is it? And that means Brad Pitt has a lot to come.
Few of the modern actors who are on the verge of generations - not even secondary, but also not quite senior - have succeeded and are succeeding in building their careers so flawlessly as Brad Pitt.
The birth of a sex symbol
For reasons beyond the actor’s control, his first film “The Dark Side of the Sun” (1988) was released only ten years later, but it’s obvious that even then the actor chose the role not by the principle of “light up and wake up famous and cool, ” but by quality criteria: topic + script + interesting director. His choice is also therefore worthy of respect, because it was clearly not made because of financial gain - a fairly important detail for a young artist in Los Angeles.
The main criterion in choosing a role was the author's statement. Over the years, it became obvious that for Pitt, this is the main criterion in the work: the statement that the director and producer put into the film, and the statement that he personally can make, playing this or that role: regardless of whether it is a commercial project or an author’s cinema. The artist surprisingly manages to maintain a balance between one and the other.
Luck - the first big role - found William Bradley Pitt exactly when he gained experience on the movie floor and graduated from acting classes.
And the very beginning of Brad Pitt’s career was commonplace - from small episodes, roles in TV shows, including long-playing and cult ones for the American audience: Freddy’s Nightmares (1988 - 1990), Joe Bob's Open-Air Cinema (TV series, 1987 - 1995), Thirty-Something (TV series 1987 - 1991), Jump Street 21 (TV series 1987 - 1991), The New Hollywood Squares (TV series 1986 - 1989), Growth Issues "(TV series, 1985 - 1992), " Dallas "(TV series, 1978 - 1991), " Another World "(TV series, 1964 - 1999).
Despite the fact that the film "The Dark Side of the Sun", in connection with the war in Yugoslavia, where some of the footage was left, did not appear on time, the actor did not have any downtime. There were roles in films: "Racing in a circle" (1990), "Die young" (TV, 1990), "Painting" (TV, 1990), "Reducing the class" (1989), "Tales from the crypt" (TV series 1989 - 1996) and "Happy Together" (1989). But only three years after his first big job, where he played the role of a young man with a rare disease who crossed the line of his own life for a short moment of happiness to live and love under the Sun, Pitt was lucky to play a short - only three episodes - but very important for his career role in the film "Thelma and Louise" (1991), bypassing the then unknown George Clooney, five times tested for the same role.
"I'm one of those people who are hated at the genetic level."
It was after the movie Thelma and Louise, after the role of Jay Dee and the famous bed scene with Gina Davis, that the world recognized Brad Pitt, who is still one of the sexiest men in the world. And it was after this film that his progressive and faithful career growth began. He, of course, did not manage to avoid roles in the passing films, but there were frankly not bad even among them.
The only possible way - trial and error - he was looking for directors with whom to work. Yes, it did not work out with Ralph Bakshi and his role in "Parallel World" (1992), as well as with director Tom Di Chillo and his film "Johnny Suede" (1991), but then there was a meeting with the great filmmaker Robert Redford, in whose film " Where the river flows "(1992), Pitt played in such a way that the most critically-minded spiteful critics, who from the very beginning sought to label him as a near-looking pretty handsome man, were defeated.
Such spiteful critics have always had enough and calculated easily, because they loved, without further ado, to rhyme in their articles Brad and delirium, Pitt and drink.
Brad Pitt continued to work with Redford and their joint filmography was enriched by two more works: California and True Love. Apparently, communication with Redford, and a kind of study with him, gave Pitt a lot, not only as an actor. His subsequent and very successful experience as a producer also follows from those years - the time he worked with Robert Redford.
“Once I called my grandfather:“ We watched your movie here, ”said the grandfather.“ What exactly, grandfather? ”I said. And he shouted to my grandmother:“ Hey, Betty, as the movie was called, from whom did I puke on the third day?"
