HuffPo calls this interview “awkward,” but I think it’s just sort of… surly? Flippant? Yeah, flippant. Brad Pitt was 27 when he taped this interview with Entertainment Tonight, but he sounds more like a rebellious high schooler.
To wit: what is with the bandana he’s wearing under his jaunty ballcap? Do you see how it’s so carefully folded? The print, meticulously centered? Do you see how it matches Brad’s shirt? That bandana was a terrible decision.
On the bright side, this is the most early 90s video I have ever seen. My favorite part is when he fidgets, and suddenly you realize he’s holding a basketball. A basketball. During his interview. For the duration of the interview, he is fidgeting with an undersized basketball.
Pitt was visiting ET, I think to promote his ill-fated television series Glory Days which, you know, that was his first major role like ever. So he was a completely unproven actor when the interview was taped—he was, literally, just another pretty face—so I can sort of appreciate why he seems so edgy and irritable.
“You seem to want to be taken seriously,” the interviewer finally says to him. Listen, woman: in five years you are going to go see Se7en in the movie theater, and you are going to be floored.
Brad Pitt, vindicated!
“Listen, woman: in five years you are going to go see Se7en in the movie theater, and you are going to be floored.”
Uh, not really…that was a completely underwhelming performance. If it wasn’t for Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman, that movie would be a pile of crap.
12 Monkeys expands on this side of Brad Pitt.
Seriously, that’s his best performance aside from Fight Club.