He could easily be described as a star with a glow from the past, but that certainly wasn’t the only reason he rose to the top of the American film industry. Brad Pitt is not only handsome, perfect for covers and captions, but also a good actor. His turbulent life, love affairs and divorces – especially the one with Angelina Jolie – may have preoccupied the media and the public more than his acting performances, but in most of his 35 years in the business, he has major performances, he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and an additional Best Picture Oscar as a producer for 12 Years a Slave. At the same time, in his honor, he has also been chosen by famous names in directing, such as Terry Gilliam, Terrence Malick, Steven Soderbergh, Neil Jordan, Ridley Scott and Quentin Tarantino.

The blue-eyed, with the rich blonde count, protagonist, however, one could say that he has also done himself an injustice, making several merely commercial films, without special content and relying solely on his beauty, his youthful appearance and his mannerisms disobey young man, copying either Paul Newman, or, above all, in his film career, Marlon Brando. He may have established himself as the ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ in the 90s, but he never became a Brando, much less a Newman. However, we should not blame him. American cinema has lost its glamour, the scripts look, at best, like failed copies of older ones, while receipts and balance sheets are the only priority for the big Hollywood studios. And of course the fortitude of an actor to reject 90 percent of the scripts he reads is probably a thing of the distant past if not a fantasy of orthodox cinephiles.

Brad Pitt turning 60 years old (December 18, 1963) and having untangled, with the painful divorce, from Angelina Jolie, which cost him fame, possibly some good roles and friendships and leaving behind problems with drinking and others abuses, he is optimistic about his future, although he must realize that he must abandon the natural gift of youth and enter the deep waters of maturity. Most likely, especially for Pete, old age will be delayed by a decade or so, compared to the rest.

In Hollywood as… chicken

Pete will be born a month after the assassination of John Kennedy, in Oklahoma and will grow up in Springfield, Missouri, in an average typical American family, along with his two brothers. In his younger years he will stand out in sports as well as in acting by participating in school musicals. He will study journalism at the University of Missouri and will play in amateur bands in his spare time. His love for cinema, however, will force him to leave the university, two weeks before receiving his degree, to travel to the wonderful world of cinematic dreams, Hollywood. There he will attend acting classes, working several jobs to make ends meet, including a chauffeur in “home strippers” and the best: a barker in a fast food chain, where he greeted customers dressed as a chicken!

The role of the “hobo” will take him off the ground

So, with the experience as a chicken, he will spread his wings, starting to make some appearances in the cinema. In 1987, he will get a small role in the excellent thriller “Dead End” starring Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman and some reels in other productions, and he will also enter television. His career has begun to take a path, but without much perspective. Until Ridley Scott casts him for a featured role in the smash hit Thelma and Louise. Pitt, playing a wandering young bum and having a love scene with Geena Davis, would become more widely known, and the first covers and captions for America’s new love symbol would begin. Essentially, it is the springboard for his career, which in the 90s will take off.

Acting ability

The following year he starred in Robert Retford’s drama The River Runs Between Us, proving that he can also act, while in 1994 he appeared alongside Tom Cruise and Antonio Banderas in his huge and artistic success Interview with a Vampire Neil Jordan. It will be followed by the huge hit Seven, a horror film co-starring Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey. However, in Terry Gilliam’s excellent film “Twelve Monkeys” he will prove his acting ability and receive his first Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Once upon a time in… Hollywood

The successes will now be consecutive in the coming decades, for Pitt, who will become one of the heaviest names in the film industry. The income from the films “The Gang of 11”, “12” and so on, which he made together with George Clooney will give birth to a film production company, which will also bring him an Oscar for Best Picture for the period drama adventure. 12 years slave”. His last personal success, which gave him the coveted Oscar, was in Tarantino’s cinephile “Once upon a time in… Hollywood”, with his friend Leonardo DiCaprio by his side.

The painful divorce and the detox

In his personal life, however, he did not do so well. After his first unsuccessful marriage to Jennifer Aniston, his marriage to Angelina Jolie and the episodic divorce will follow, which will be a sad memory for him. In a confessional interview, after the high-profile divorce, he will talk about his alcoholism, problems with anger control, his psychological trauma, loss and trying to spend his life trying to hide the pieces of him. He confessed that drinking “was his way of putting his demons to sleep” and that when he realized he had crossed any limits he decided to cut it off, spending six months in rehab.

Cocktail

Today, now 60, Bran Pitt, having made a strong reboot of his life, seems reconciled to his demons, continues to love stuntmen and everyone who works to make a movie, admires Tarantino, loves to drink a cocktails with DiCaprio and of course making plans for the last part of his artistic journey.