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What People Have Said About Working With Brad Pitt
Perhaps Helena Bonham Carter said it best when she explained that Brad Pitt “looks as if he swallowed the sun.”
When a Hollywood actor has a career as long and celebrated as Brad Pitt's, it often has more to do with just good looks and talent. The actor has to be professional and well-liked. Filmmakers have to want to work with the actor. He can’t just be a movie star.
Pitt’s filmography is approaching 100 acting credits. The Academy Award winner started his career in the mid-1980s and still works regularly as a leading man, supporting actor, and producer.
Find out what notable people including Harrison Ford and Pitt’s Hollywood BFF George Clooney had to say about working with the acclaimed actor.
Timothy Olyphant co-starred with Pitt in Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 movie Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. While on Conan O’Brien’s talk show, Olyphant talked about working with the movie star. He said:
First of all, from the jump, the whole thing was a dream come true. At the read-through… I showed up early… in my electric car… the only person who arrived just before me, I guess, was Brad Pitt, only he arrived on a chopper. And, I kind of thought, ‘Well, there lies the difference.'
Olyphant added that Pitt was “as cool as it gets.” Then he joked about just how much he liked the Oscar winner:
I’ve said to my wife, I told you, I said, ‘You know,… I’d never leave my wife for another woman, but there’s a chance I might leave her for Brad Pitt.’ He’s just that wonderful.
Interesting story?Jean Smart appeared with Pitt in the 2022 epic Babylon. The Hacks actor began working on Damien Chazelle’s ensemble drama shortly after her husband Richard Gilliland suddenly passed away in March 2021.
When Smart walked the red carpet at the Golden Globes in 2023, she called her co-stars Pitt and Margot Robbie “so lovely” and “so funny and sweet.”
Smart also recalled the kind words that Pitt shared with her regarding the death of her husband:
I do remember the day after the Emmys before last, and we were shooting Babylon. And I was sitting in a chair just kind of waiting, and Brad came over, and he had watched the Emmys, so he knelt down next to my chair, and he took my hand and he congratulated me and gave me his condolences about losing my husband. He said, 'I had no idea you'd been going through that.' He was incredibly kind.
Interesting story?Over his career, Pitt has worked with hundreds, probably even thousands of actors. Now that he is older and wiser, he knows he doesn’t want to work with certain actors.
His Bullet Train co-star Aaron Taylor-Johnson said that Pitt keeps a “sh*t list” of actors that he refuses to work with. Taylor-Johnson called Pitt a “humble and gracious human being.” He added:
He just wants to bring light and joy into the world and be around people who are there to have a good time. You work with many actors and after a while you start making notes: ‘I am definitely not working with this person ever again.’ Brad has this list too: the ‘good’ list and the ‘sh*t’ list.
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Damson Idris Said Pitt's Humility Is 'Second To None'
Damson Idris co-stars with Pitt in the 2025 Joseph Kosinski-directed Formula 1 movie F1. In the film, Pitt plays a race car driver hoping to make a comeback.
The Snowfall actor talked to Vanity Fair in 2024 about Pitt's humility and his skills on the racetrack:
His humility is second to none. I don’t know if people know this, but he is really good behind that car. Really good. Too good almost. He makes me nervous how good he is.
Pitt enjoyed his time making F1. He said:
I'm a little giddy right now, I’ve got to say. And it's just great to be here, man. We're just having such a laugh, such a laugh. It's the best time of my life.
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Helena Bonham Carter Said That Pitt Looks As If He's 'Swallowed The Sun'
Prior to her turn as Marla Singer in 1999’s Fight Club, Helena Bonham Carter was mostly known for English period dramas like A Room with a View and The Wings of the Dove. The latter British film earned Carter an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
After Carter read the script for Fight Club, she wasn’t sure if the movie was right for her. “To be honest, I didn’t completely get the script," admitted Carter. "I thought, ‘Oh God, this thing could really backfire and spawn all these fight clubs. It’s not a great philosophy, not a very mature one.’”
Additionally, Carter wasn't originally one of the main contenders for the role. However, Pitt championed the actress. “It was Brad’s idea for me to be in it," said Carter.
In an interview with Stephen Colbert, Carter praised Pitt. She said:
He’s a gentleman and he looks as if he’s swallowed the sun…he’s just such a good thing on the exterior and the interior.
Interesting story? George Clooney and Pitt worked together on the Ocean's Eleven trilogy and the Coen Brothers movie Burn After Reading. The pair reunited to make the 2024 action comedy Wolfs where they play rival fixers forced to work together.
The off-screen friends had not acted together since 2008 but had no problem picking up where they left off. Clooney explained:
No, from the minute we got there, it was just easy to do it again. The fun part is that all the dialogue of us talking on top of each other was pretty easy to do because it was fun.
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