Brad Pitt almost walked away from his 1994 leading role in “Legends of the Fall,” according to director Ed Zwick.>“I could see Brad’s growing discomfort as it went on,” Zwick wrote of the table read with the cast, including Anthony Hopkins and Julia Ormond. “Hours afterward, his agent called the studio to say Brad wanted to quit. It fell to [producer] Marshall [Herskovitz] to talk Brad off the ledge. It was never mentioned again, but it was the first augury of the deeper springs of emotion roiling inside Brad. He seems easygoing at first, but he can be volatile when riled, as I was to be reminded more than once as shooting began and we took each other’s measure.”>According to Zwick, “Brad’s anxiety about the movie never quite went away” even during production.>“Sometimes, no matter how experienced or sensitive you are as a director, things just aren’t working,” Zwick wrote. “You think the actor is being oppositional, while he finds you dictatorial. Some actors have problems with authority, but just as many directors are threatened when intelligent actors ask challenging questions that reveal their lack of preparation. Both are right and both are wrong.”>Zwick continued, “There are all sorts of reasons an actor might pick a fight. Most likely he’s afraid. Insecurity manifests as arrogance and fear precipitates bad behavior — on the director’s part as well as the actor’s. Brad would get edgy whenever he was about to shoot a scene that required him to display deep emotion. It was here that his ideas about Tristan differed from mine. Brad had grown up with men who held their emotions in check; I believed the point of the [‘Legends of the Fall’] novel was that a man’s life was the sum of his griefs. […] Yet the more I pushed Brad to reveal himself, the more he resisted. So, I kept pushing and Brad pushed back.”
>Zwick recalled of a particular argument with Pitt: “One afternoon I started giving him direction out loud in front of the crew — a stupid, shaming provocation — and Brad came back at me, also out loud, telling me to back off. The considered move would have been to tell the crew to take five and for the two of us to talk it out. But I was feeling bloody-minded, and not about to relent. I was angry at Brad for not trusting me to influence his performance. Also for the reluctance he’d shown after the first table read. Who knows, I might even have been acting out my own inability to be vulnerable. But Brad wasn’t about to give in without a fight. In his defense, I was pushing him to do something he felt was either wrong for the character, or more ’emo’ than he wanted to appear onscreen. I don’t know who yelled first, who swore, or who threw the first chair. Me, maybe? But when we looked up, the crew had disappeared. And this wasn’t the last time it happened. Eventually the crew grew accustomed to our dustups and would walk away and let us have it out. ‘We hate it when the parents fight,’ said one.”>Even after “Legends of the Fall” wrapped, Pitt was not happy with the final cut, according to the director.>“When I showed Brad the final film, he wasn’t pleased,” Zwick wrote. “He felt I’d underplayed his character’s madness. 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. Apologies, Brad. He was also unhappy when People named him ‘Sexiest Man of the Year’ — something for which I take neither credit nor blame.”
>>220805433>PLEASE STOP PAYING ME MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO BE A SEX SYMBOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN, ITS TOO MUCH!!!
>>220805547Not everything is about money or women, chud
>>220805433Did this nigger like ANY of his movies?
>>220805433>according to director Ed Zwick.Literally finished this book yesterday. The best dishy parts were that Matthew Broderick was a cunt on Glory. A mama's boy.And that Julia Roberts was a turbo slut who ruined Zwick's Shakespeare In Love. All she wanted to do was Fuck Daniel Day Lewis who wanted nothing to do with her.
>>220805793Tell me more
>>220805433Stop with these fake threads you absolute fucking retard.
>>220806045>Stop with these fake threads you absolute fucking retard.These are quotes from a book by a great director. Not sure what's triggering you.
>>220805433GENETICISTS HATE HIM
>>220805442zwick does nothing wrong yet he apologizes like a little bitch>i i totally provoked himkwab
>>220805793Elaborate.
>>220805433All you're doing is making me like him more (and adding pittkinos to my backlog)
>>220805433Had a teacher force the class to sit through A River Runs Through It. As a result I hated his movies until Fincher.
brad pitt abused his wife and kids so hard that they don't talk to him and now he just screams at people at work
What's with Brad hating his earlier career. We all have to begin doing things we don't like and in his case, he made movies people liked and turned him into a mainstream face. Ungrateful cunt.
>>220805793Broderick was fresh off of getting away with double murder. DDL got his fuk and scrammed. Roberts bought into the old practice of Joan Crawford that fuking your potential leading men gives you upper hand in "screen chemistry".
>>220805433>>220805442what a whiny nigger
Damn I wish I could do something to help BRAD PITT about this situation. Maybe wire some money to him or something idk just brainstorming here.
>>220807592hello this brad pit, im dying of cold *cough cough* plz send monie.
>>220806682proof?
>>220806682>brad pitt abused his wife and kids so hard that they don't talk to himOr, ooorrrrrr, he married a total psycho who collected kids and then turned them on him when he wanted to get away from her.
>>220807814From this latest wave of interviews it seems like he's deeply insecure and easily flares up when given basic tasks.Probably resonates with you though.
>>220807814We truly don't know what happened in the family, we only know that Jolie is a weirdo and Pitt really is not that weird for Hollywood standards. Remember he was also forced to be the father of three kids she adopted and to threat them like they were the same as his actual three kids. I remember reading that Shiloh was his favorite, and it's not coincidence she's the one that looks more like him and the one with the talent. I can see Jolie being mad that he made this type of distinction between the kids and wanting to get rid of him because she sees all the kids as her own.
>>220805433brad has the strongest PR in hollywood, is he jewish by chance?
