Brad Pitt may have ended Hollywood if it wasn’t for David Fincher. The actor recently reflected on how the work with AUTEUR “revived” his love for filmmaking at a time when he needed it most.
Pitt said during Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast (in the video below) that after a number of large budgetary disappointments in the early 90s, he re -evaluated his life during the summer of 1994. At that time, Pitt had played in movies such as “The advantage”, “COOL World” and “Legends of the Fall.” (His hit “Interview with The Vampire” was not released until November 1994.)
Pitt recalled that it was “the most unhealthy time” in his life, which led to him looking to “check out” Hollywood as a whole. “I would wake up, I would get a bong load, I would have four Coca-Colas on ice, no food,” Pitt said. “This summer I looked at the OJ trial and I was just trying to find out:“ What am I doing next? What do I do next? ”
It wasn’t until the script for ”SE7“Arrived that Pitt felt the desire to work again.” My dear friend and manager and basically my sister now, Cynthia, sends (Se7en ‘manus), “said Pitt.” She says: “You have to read this.” I read the first seven pages, I’ll call her, I go, ‘are you kidding me? The cliché old police want, the young police come in and he looks at his football trophy in high school? ‘She’s going,’ Just finish it. ‘ Then I go with finch, and he just talked about movies that I have never heard anyone talk about film. I just got Jones back. Finding that kind of … It just revived what I wanted from this thing. ”
Pitt went on to start in the “SE7” and would continue to be reunited with finches for Iconic “Fight Club” and “the curious case with the Benjamin button.” He’s coming up Collaborate with Fincher again for “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood” Spinoff -Film about his fictional stunt man -character Cliff Booth. Quentin Tarantino wrote the Kvasi century, which will be released by Netflix.
