Brad Pitt, the golden boy from Missouri who at the age of 22 went to California and became the biggest movie star of his time, earning $20 million per movie, stated that he sees his film career ending and entering the final stage.
Thirty years after his debut, the star of Fight Club, the Ocean’s trilogy (saga), the action-comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Incredible Story of Benjamin Button, Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which earned him his first acting Oscar in 2020, with appearances becoming more sporadic in recent years as he has transitioned into the role of producer, he said in an interview with GQ magazine: “I consider myself to be nearing the end of my career, the last six months or three months.”
At 58, some six years after his painful divorce from Angelina Jolie, with whom he has six children, he says he wants to think hard about the path he is taking. “Here in California there is a lot of talk about ‘the real you.’ [Para mí] It was reaching a point of recognition of the deep wounds we carry”, he said among other things.
As Quentin Tarantino told GQ, when Brad Pitt’s career really and literally comes to an end, the industry will lose “one of the last movie stars left on the big screen. He is just a different kind of person. And honestly, I don’t think you can describe exactly what that is because it’s like describing the twinkling of stars.
I realized that when we did Inglorious Bastards. When Brad was in the shot, I didn’t feel like he was looking through the camera. I felt like he was watching a movie. His presence alone on the four “walls” of the frame created this impression.”