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Brad Pitt is ‘really grateful’ to Ridley Scott and Geena Davis for giving him a chance in Thelma & Louise role
Brad Pitt has expressed his gratitude to director Ridley Scott and actress Geena Davis for ‘[giving him] a shot’ and casting him in Thelma & Louise.
The actor reflected on his role as cowboy drifter J.D in the 1991 drama, which launched him to Hollywood stardom.
He admitted that he was only cast for the part because the producers were “desperate.”
He also claimed that his voice on screen is so high owing to terrible nervousness that he still winces whenever he sees the Oscar-winning film.
“I’m really grateful to Ridley Scott and Geena, who gave me that shot, because that was the big league,” the 56-year-old told The Sun. “I had nothing to show for myself, except for my work as an extra, and they took a chance on me.
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“I think they were desperate, to tell you the truth. They were already shooting because a week later I was on set, working.”
‘I’m more aware of how high my voice is in it. My a** must have been clenched so tight, being the first one,’ quipped the two-time Academy Award winner.
Brad’s outstanding career path began with that part, which he earned in 1990 before the film’s release the following year.
He went up against ‘five other actors,’ one of which was George Clooney, at his last audition for Thelma & Louise.
Brad claims that it was his co-star Geena who chose him from the crowd.
‘The blond one . . . hello!’ gushed Geena at the time.
Brad, who has been married to Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie, has reflected on his three decades at the top, recalling how he dropped out of school with only £200 in his pocket when he arrived to Hollywood.
The star, who now earns up to £25 million a film as one of the world’s most bankable actors, recalled: “It was a week before graduation and I realised all of my friends had jobs.
“I had a friend, who was not even a close friend, who talked about going out to LA and her dad had a place. I loaded up the car. I didn’t graduate.
“All I had to do was hand in a term paper, but in my head, I was done. I was going west.
“I landed and went straight to McDonald’s. I got a newspaper. I had $275 (£200) to my name, and I saw in the paper that you could sign up for work as an extra, so I signed up for three places.
“Within a week, I was doing extra work and I was really, really happy.” Despite his s-x appeal, success was not handed to him.
Pitt said that while he was pleased of himself for chasing his aspirations, the road to Hollywood fame was not easy.
‘There was this catch-22. To get your actor’s SAG [Screen Actors Guild union] card, you had to have a line, but to have a line you had to have your SAG card,’ explained Brad.
In order to achieve the seemingly impossible, Brad decided to put himself out on a limb during one of his extra gigs in Los Angeles by uttering an unwritten line.
‘I was an extra. It was a big dinner scene and they pulled me out to be the waiter. I was supposed to pour champagne and I thought, ‘I’m gonna try it!’
‘And so I poured Charlie’s glass. They were having a big conversation. I poured the next actor’s glass. And then there was a young woman on the end and I poured her glass, and I went, ‘Would you like anything else?’
‘I heard the director yell, ‘Cut! Cut!’ He came over to me and said, ‘If you do that again, you’re outta here!”
Things improved in 1990, when Brad beat five other actors in a final audition for his role as JD in Thelma & Louise, including George Clooney.
In the 1990s, he starred in a series of big-budget movies, including the crime drama Seven and the highly acclaimed psychological thriller Fight Club.
‘We were having so much godd*mn fun on that movie. I don’t remember research being the main component. It was just pretty good fun,’ said Pitt of his time filming Fight Club, which premiered in theaters in 1999.
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