“He's one of the last remaining big-screen movie
stars” - the great Tarantino says about him.
He is an actor, producer, Oscar winner and
owner of the hearts of millions of fans around the world. It's hard not to remember
his roles. His characters become iconic. His romances have been talked about for decades.
Welcome to the Biographer channel. Today we are talking about Brad Pitt and what kind of person is
hiding behind the mask of a carefree handsome.
Why does he hate his iconic role in the “Interview
with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles"?
How does Jolie argue her role in the
breakup of Pitt and Aniston's marriage?
And what helped the actor in the fight
against alcohol and illegal substances?
The most interesting facts and celebrity
interviews are already waiting for you. Let's get started.
EARLY YEARS
William Bradley Pitt was born in Oklahoma on
December 18, 1963, and grew up in Missouri. His father worked in a trucking company, and
his mother was a school counselor. In addition to Brad, there were two other children in the
family: brother Douglas and sister Julie.
As members of the Baptist Church, Brad's parents
raised their children in austerity. The family went to church every Sunday, and the meal was
only after praying. Parents forced children to sing in a church choir. In an interview, the
actor admitted that his father was incredibly cruel to him. According to Pitt, he grew up in
a family where there were constant restrictions, prohibitions and misunderstandings. It was
because of his father's cruelty that he eventually stopped believing in God.
'I’ve gone through everything. Like, I cling to religion. I grew up with Christianity.
Always questioned it, but it worked at times. And then when I got on my own, I completely
left it and I called myself agnostic.
However, the strict rules in the family did not
prevent Pitt from growing up as a versatile child and trying himself in different areas. In high
school, Bradley was a member of the school's golf, tennis and swimming teams. But his main
hobby was acting on stage. He had classes at the theater, which he still sponsors.
After graduating from high school, the young man began to study journalism and advertising at
the University of Missouri - Columbia. But two weeks before graduation, he dropped everything
and, without a degree, went to Hollywood. There he changed his name to "Brad Pitt".
I always liked film as a teaching tool — a way of getting exposed to ideas that had
never been presented to me…It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.
Acting success did not come to him immediately. Pitt took any job to feed himself and pay
for expensive acting classes. He worked as a furniture transporter, and at night he delivered
strippers to parties in a limousine. He was even a barker at the El Pollo Loco restaurant chain:
he walked the streets dressed as a giant chicken, inviting passers-by to visit their establishment.
It is interesting that work with strippers was not easy in moral terms, but in some sense helped
Brad in his future acting career. The fact is that one of the girls took up Roy London's
acting class. Pitt decided to go to class too, and the knowledge that he got there,
was really useful to him later.
In parallel, he went to all kinds of auditions.
One day an agent noticed him and decided to take the young talent under his wing. Thanks to
him, Pitt began to earn extra money on the set. For example, he was just standing
in the doorway or portrayed a waiter in a film with Charlie Sheen. To get noticed
and receive the coveted Actors Guild card, he tried to speak during his short appearances.
Among the first Pitt’s works is also famous The Pringles Chips commercial, broadcast on TV in
1989. Who knew then that this tanned handsome blond would become a cinema legend in future?
Two years later, Pitt finally started getting cameo roles. For example, he got the role in
several episodes of the TV series “Another World”, and in everyone's favorite "Dallas".
That was followed by roles in "Growing Pains", "Tales from the Crypt", as well as
in the well-known " 21 Jump Street", where Johnny Depp began his career.
The first major movie role of Brad Pitt was a guy whose illness did not allow him to appear
in the sun without protective dark clothes.The film "The Dark Side of the Sun" was shot in
Yugoslavia in the late 80s. Due to the civil war, part of the film footage was lost for 10 years
and the movie was released only in 1997.
After the first bad experience, the young actor
made his way to the cinema as best he could.
He first appeared alongside Patrick
Dempsey in the comedy Happy Together, and then in the horror film “Cutting Class”
where he played the school basketball star.
For this role, Brad Pitt received his
first serious fee - 12 thousand dollars.
In the nineties, Pitt returned to television
again, to play more serious roles. The actor appears in the TV movie "Too Young to Die?"
with Juliet Lewis. His character Billy is a drug addict who takes advantage of
the defenselessness of young Amanda and makes her an accomplice in a crime.
During filming, Pitt and Lewis had a whirlwind romance, which, alas, did not stand the test of
popularity. Juliet remained a "promising actress", while Brad moved to a higher level. The handsome
man got tired of constant scenes of jealousy, and he left Lewis after three years of
marriage, having an affair with Gwyneth Paltrow. Juliet took the break too close to
her heart and even tried to commit suicide.
Meanwhile, Pitt's career continued to go
up. He appeared in 6 episodes of Glory Days, Canvas - the HBO television movie, and the
movie Across The Track. Summing up the TV roles, Pitt is filming a Levis commercial.
New Achievements
1991 became a real breakthrough for the young
actor. Then came the crime drama Ridley Scott "Thelma & Louise", in which Pitt played the
role of the conqueror of hearts Jay Dee.
In the film, Pitt has three small episodes,
including the famous sex scene with Gina Davis, which brought him fame as the sexiest
partner of modern Hollywood.
Shortly before that, Pitt starred in the comedy
“The Favor”, but its premiere took place only in 1994 due to the bankruptcy of Orion Pictures.
In the films “Johnny Suede” and “Cool World”, released in a year, Brad played the main roles.
However, the films were not well received by critics and did not differ in originality.
But the role of a fearless reporter in the drama “A River Runs Through It” by Robert Redford
proved that he wasn’t just a handsome guy in a cowboy hat, but a talented actor.
They say Pitt was very displeased with the results of the first auditions. He was able
to insist on being allowed to send a video with another scene. As a result, the second
version convinced the director that the actor was really suitable for the role.
Brad didn't fight so hard for a place in the movie for nothing. "A River Runs Through
It" impressed critics and received a number of Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.
And although Brad didn't receive awards, that film took him to a new level and drew the
attention of directors to the young talent.
In 1993, Pitt starred in a cameo role in
Tony Scott's “True Romance”, written by Quentin Tarantino. His hero never gets up from
a couch and constantly smokes weed. By the way, Pitt himself suggested making his character
a junkie always lying on a couch.
Well, the next project took
him to the new highs.
A-list
On November 11, 1994, "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles" was released.
Kirsten Dunst became famous. Tom Cruise proved that he was able to play the villain. Well, for
Brad Pitt shooting in one of the most important films in his career became a living hell. The
actor later called the role a failure.
First of all, it was physically hard. Pitt hung
upside down everyday to rush the blood to his head and to bring out a vein. He also wore a heavy
wig and contact lenses that hurt his eyes.
Like a real vampire, Pitt did not see the light:
almost all the shooting was carried out at night, and then in the middle of winter
in foggy Albion. "Six months in the f *** ing dark," the actor complained.
The fact that the author of the original book, Anne Rice, was categorically dissatisfied with
the casting for the main roles made things worse. The fact is that she wrote the first version of
the script herself, representing the perfectly beautiful Frenchman Alain Delon in the image
of Louis. It is understandable why the writer was so outraged by the subsequent casting
for the film: there was nothing in common between the star of intellectual European
cinema and the hopelessly earthly Brad Pitt, who advertised fried chicken yesterday.
That, of course, demoralized Brad.
If the actor had been inspired by the story
itself, all of the above suffering would have paid off. And he did when he was preparing for the
role. Pitt was familiar with the book and read the first version of the script, which he was quite
satisfied with. But when Brad got the final script two weeks before the start of work, he realized
that it would not be at all what he expected.
Every day he felt more and more
disappointed in his role.
Thus, the screenwriters gave the
talented actor the background role, not allowing him to really open up.
Already in the midst of filming, he felt so depressed that he still tried to
leave the project. He was stopped only by a forfeit of $40 million, which he would have had
to pay the studio to break the contract. Unhappy, depressed and missing the sun, Brad was tormented
to the end, and, I must say, in the film, the lack of enthusiasm for him is noticeable.
Although the film received mixed reviews in the press, the audience loved it. However,
the scene of Kristen Dunst and Pitt kissing greatly outraged some viewers. It was then
discussed for a long time in the media, and the actors later admitted that they felt very
uncomfortable during the filming of that moment.
In any case, unlike many one-day horror
films, the movie made a real splash. The film has firmly entered the category of
cinema classics and it is now considered one of the best films about vampires. Even Anne
Rice, after watching, changed her point of view and praised the film adaptation.
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it. I read everything and like the best ones.
In the same year, Edward Zwick's large-scale epic
"Legends of the Fall" was released, where Sir Anthony Hopkins himself was Brad's partner. The
film received numerous Academy Award nominations, including "Best Sound" and "Best Costume
Design". And Brad finally got his first Golden Globe nomination.
Serious roles
As if wanting to distance himself as much as
possible from the romantic role got in past projects, in 1995 Brad Pitt played the
mentally ill dreamer in Terry Gilliam's fantasy thriller “12 Monkeys ”.
Since work on the film began even before the release of the hits that made
Pitt an actor of the first magnitude, he was paid a rather modest 100 thousand for that
role. But in the end, the actor got something more valuable than money. Even Bruce Willis, who
was already a star at that time, agreed to the minimum fee. It was all about the opportunity
to work with an extraordinary director.
Pitt visited the psychiatric department of
Temple University for several weeks to play the mentally unstable Jeffrey Goines.The
actor carefully rehearsed all the awkward, crazy movements of his character and selected a
special timbre of his voice. In order for Pitt to be able to pronounce his lines correctly - quickly
and nervously, Terry Gilliam first sent him to a tutor. But then he figured out just to limit
the actor in smoking, and he, feeling stressed, played exactly as Gilliam wanted.
The efforts of this duo were not in vain. For his role, Pitt received a Golden Globe and his
first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
In the same 1995, the film "Seven" by
David Fincher was released. For the filming in it Brad refused a role in Apollo 13.
There were some injuries on the set. During the filming of the chase scene, he slipped, hit his
hand on the windshield and got a ruptured tendon. Pitt had to wear a cast until the end of filming,
and the production team had to urgently edit the script so that the character also got injured.
As a result, in the scenes that were supposed to take place before the chase, but were filmed
later, the actor had to hide his cast hand.
Interestingly, studio executives were not
satisfied with the ending of the film and asked Fincher to rewrite it. But Brad, who considered
her the most suitable, rebelled and threatened to leave the film if the ending was changed.
After its release, Pitt was included in the top 25 sexiest stars in the history of cinema
according to Empire magazine. He was subsequently voted "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine -
twice. Brad Pitt became the first (and so far the only) person to receive this honor twice.
But Brad did not have time to enjoy the status of an enviable bachelor, because even during
the filming of the movie "Seven" he began an affair with Gwyneth Paltrow. The actors
immediately became the audience's favorites, appeared everywhere together, and after a
year of relationships they got engaged
Later, Barry Levinson's legal drama Sleepers was
released, where Pitt played the role of a lawyer who was sexually abused as a child. His co-stars
on the set were Kevin Bacon, Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro.
Difficult Year
In 1997, paparazzi photographed the actor
naked while on vacation with Gwyneth Paltrow in Europe. Pitt sued the magazine and won
it, but the whole world had already seen the provocative pictures by that time. In
the same year, Brad and Gwyneth broke up.
In addition to the wounded soul, Pitt
suffered real injuries in that year. The actor spent some time in Northern Ireland
preparing for a role in the film "The Devil’s Own”. There he was attacked and beaten.
The most annoying thing is that the film was not worth those bruises at all. There were
many problems and misunderstandings on the set.
Work on the film was delayed, the script was
rewritten several times. Pitt even decided to leave the project, considering the final
version of the story incomplete and incoherent, but the producers threatened legal
action and he had to stay.
According to rumors, the situation was aggravated
by his relationship with Harrison Ford. The actors were in conflict all the time on the set. And
that despite the fact that Pitt personally suggested Ford for that role.
As a result, the film was not particularly liked by the audience and
received mixed reviews from critics.
In the same year, the film “Seven Years in
Tibet” was released. It described the story of the adventures of an Austrian climber in Tibet
during the Second World War. The film was based on the autobiographical book of the same name by the
Austrian climber and traveler Heinrich Harrer.
Brad got a very complex and controversial
character. And it's not even that the actor's accent in this film was named the third
worst accent in Hollywood history, according to Empire magazine. In the film, Heinrich Harrer
had a negative attitude towards the Nazis.
But before the premiere, there was information,
that his prototype was actually a member of the Nazi Party and served in the SS. However, Harrer
later stated that it was "mistakes of youth", but an unpleasant feeling remained.
Since the film implied a political context, among other things, Pitt was often asked
about his position on that matter.
Who cares what I think China should
do about Tibet? I'm a fucking actor ... I'm a grown man who puts on make-up
When the film was released, the Chinese government denounced it, saying that Chinese Communist
officers were shown to be excessively rude and cruel to the people of Tibet. Because of that,
Pitt, Thewlis and director Jean-Jacques Annaud were given a lifetime ban from entering China.
Despite all this, many viewers liked the film. And after a while, the ban was canceled
and Pitt visited China in 2014 and 2016.
Following this film, Brad reappeared with Anthony
Hopkins in Meet Joe Black, a remake of the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday. The actor played
Death that took over the body of a young guy.
Although the actors coped perfectly, the
reviews for the film were mixed. The main reason for the critics' dissatisfaction was
the three-hour duration of the film, which slowed down the pace of the narrative too much.
At the same time, there are no special effects in the picture, and for some time the film was
the most expensive in the history of cinema, where special effects were not used.
A two-hour version was made to show the film on television. But director Martin Brest
ridiculed and disowned that one. Therefore, in the credits of the short version, the
director's name was changed to the famous Hollywood pseudonym "Alan Smithee”, which is used
in cinema for directors who want to disown the project. The film received several nominations
for the most famous anti-awards in the world of cinema and show business in the nomination
"Worst Film of the Year", "Worst Remake".
Despite this, the film grossed a good box
office. Although, according to some film critics, it is believed that this happened due
to the fact that before the start of the picture there was a trailer for "Star
Wars: The Phantom Menace", and fans of the series bought tickets for "Meet Joe Black" only
because of an opportunity watch the trailer for the new picture of the legendary saga.
While working on the picture, Brad Pitt and his colleague on the set Claire Forlani had an
affair, which, however, ended quickly enough.
But in 1998, the press had a new reason for
gossip. Brad started a relationship with Jennifer Aniston, whom he met on a blind date.
Pitt was captivated by a carefree, laughing girl who seemed to have been created
for him. Rumor has it he even took Greek lessons because Aniston is of Greek descent.
It's funny that the actor played in the TV series “Friends" the role of a guy who
hates Rachel - the heroine of Aniston.
But for now, let's go back to 1999.
The year Tyler Durden appeared.
Iconic role
Initially, the producers of "Fight Club" considered Russell Crowe for
the role of the charismatic soap merchant. But then their choice fell on Pitt. Seeing him
in action, no one regretted their decision.
Pitt did not want to act in "Fight Club"
until Fincher, the director of the picture, himself appeared on his doorstep,
and over a couple of bottles of beer persuaded him to take on this role.
Before filming began, Brad and his co-star Edward Norton had to prepare thoroughly. They
seriously took up boxing to make the fight scenes look high-quality. And they also attended soap
making lessons, how could they go without it?
At the same time, Norton and Pitt followed
different diet and training regimes in order to show the contrast between two characters.
In an interview, Norton admitted that the goal was to make his character look weaker
and weaker, and Pitt's character stronger.
“Brad got bigger and stronger throughout
the film, more muscular, tanned and more handsome as I turned into Gollum.”
Unfortunately, this subtle visual metaphor is often overlooked by viewers, because Pitt is so
attractive that most actors will, in principle, look like Gollum in his background.
In addition to training, for the sake of filming in the movie, Pitt specially chipped
his front teeth, as he felt that it would be in keeping with the character of his hero.
Many scenes in the film do not accidentally look too "real". The fact is that in the scene
where the Narrator hit Tyler Durden in the ear for the first time, Norton had only to simulate
a strong blow... but a few minutes before the shooting began, Fincher took Norton aside and
told him to hit for real. So the grimace of pain on Pitt's face can hardly be called fake.
And in the scene where the Narrator and Tyler were playing golf, they were actually drunk.
It is clear that Pitt did not really want his parents to see this picture, but they insisted
on their own. After watching the chemical burn scene, they really regretted their decision.
The movie failed miserably at the box office, not even paying for itself. Some of the bigwigs at
the film company lost their jobs as a result. Only Brad Pitt remained in the black: his fee was $17.5
million, seven times more than Edward Norton.
Despite the failure, just a few years after the
premiere, the film was recognized as one of the most outstanding films of our time and rallied
an army of ardent fans around it. It will not be superfluous to say that "Fight Club" is the rarest
case when the adaptation of the story surpassed the literary source on all counts. Even the author
himself, Chuck Palahniuk, admitted this.
It would seem that after making a film
where they really hit you in the face, almost knock out a tooth, and so on, Brad should
have got tired of this genre. But the actor found out that director Guy Ritchie was working on a new
film. Pitt, being a big fan of his previous work, especially Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
(1998), wrote to the director and asked for the role. And Richie agreed.
AT THE TOP OF FAME
Brad Pitt entered the new millennium
at the height of his career.
And Guy Ritchie's movie “Snatch” once again
confirmed the actor in the status of a superstar. It was a dream job for Brad.
As the director told Esquire: "He called me and told me that he wanted to
be part of whatever I was doing next."
Pitt elaborated on the story:
Inset Quote: "At that time, I did something that I felt was very commercial, and I
was really interested to see what new directors were doing and what was coming out. So, I was
viewing everything of first-time directors, and I saw this movie, 'Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking
Barrels,' by this cat named Guy Ritchie. And so, I called him up and said, 'Hey, I really like
what you're doing, and if there's anything that I could fit in, then let's talk."
Understanding that he was ready for any role in the movie “Snatch” and having failed the
exam for imitating the London manner of speech, Brad got one of his brightest roles, it was
Mickey O’Neil. Brad had no problems with the accent of his unusual character: his speech is
not particularly understandable. Rapid muttering became a kind of feature of his image.
Nevertheless, Pitt worried so much about the accent right up to the start
of filming. In an interview, he said that he was taught to be intelligible,
how could he mumble unintelligibly?
I want to jim [Ritchie] the day before
and I said, 'Guy, I'm gonna f**k up your movie...'" he said. But Richie helped him
overcome this fear: all this was a gamble, even the actors should not have understood it.
The actor took classes from boxing coach Joe Goossen to prepare for the role. He praised Brad's
efforts very much: “Brad showed up to work every day of those five weeks. The sessions were at
least two hours every time... He put himself through the grinder to get where he ended up”
Between the filming of movies, Brad had to gain about 10 pounds of muscle, which is a decent
number considering his physique. Although he did not like the fact that he would have
to play a boxer again after his recent experience in the previous film.
In addition, Brad almost didn’t take shower during filming. How else to play a
sleazy Irish traveler who lived in a van?
The movie was called “crazy” and “brilliant".
Good humor, fantastic characters, good written dialogues, professional directing and camerawork.
A special way of presenting visual material, using unusual angles of camera and tricks
gave the film a special atmosphere.
Pitt's efforts were highly appreciated too: he
was able to fit into a strange, non-normative role. The scenes of the actor's performance in
the ring were especially vivid and memorable. “Brad Pitt sheds his movie start personally and
performs impressively as an Irish gypsy" - this was the average verdict of viewers on IMDB.
Still in 2000, the actor participated in the American comedy franchise “Jackass”, although he
got only a small episodic role there. He starred in two episodes of the show. In the episode “Night
Monkey”, he put on a gorilla costume to go out on the streets of Los Angeles together with four
other joking heroes and make a little mess.
They ran around the city, jumped
into bushes, drove around in carts and crashed into each other on scooters.
Apparently, Pitt was ready to go on the show, Johnny Knoxville said on Hot Ones.
Quote: "We were all like, oh, we really don't want him to get hurt, because he's Brad Pitt
and he's... But he did not care, he was ready to do it," he recalled. "He was the first one in
the middle of the street, we're like, 'No, no, no, no! Don't do that!' But he didn't care."
By this moment, Brad was already developing an affair with Jennifer Aniston. They started
dating sometime in 1999, appearing together at the Emmy ceremony. Already in 2000 they
announced the wedding. Pitt was captivated by Aniston's carelessness and brightness. "Jen
is the woman of my life!", Pitt proudly declared in every interview. The budget of the actors'
wedding was estimated at about $1 000 000, the ceremony itself took place in Malibu, but you can
hardly find photos on the Internet. They say the location was decorated with 50,000 flowers, and
the fireworks cost the couple $20,000. The guests recalled the ceremony was simple and relaxed, and
the young people took vows in a playful way.
It was under the influence of Jennifer that the
actor acquired the secular gloss familiar to many and played his most successful commercial
roles. And it was during this period that the actor looked in love in every interview.
In 2001, a comedy thriller “The Mexican” by Gore Verbinski with Brad in the title role was
released. He got the role of Jerry Welbach, who by chance stays on a criminal path.
Julia Roberts was his partner on the set. She played his hysterical girlfriend Samantha.
Brad perfectly coped with the comedic role of a clumsy criminal. Despite this, the film has a
54% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 133 critics.
The audience did not find a consensus.
The movie was accused of being chaotic and incoherent. .“Roberts and Pitt in
general are amazing actors. But they are terrible in "The Mexican"," they said.
“They worked all the kinks out of it like any Hollywood movie with Brad Pitt and Julia
Roberts, but it’s quirky and weird enough to stand out from the others.” - others decided.
Some were surprised at how good it turned out to be, others - how bad and delayed.
No matter how sophisticated the critics were in their research, the movie earned $ 147.8
million, and it stayed in first place at the box office in North America in the first week.
After the Mexican's awkward charisma came the mysterious fleur “Spy Game”, where
Brad got the role of ... well, of course, a spy named Tom Bishop.
There, he tried on black aviators and got into the image we will all like later in future.
The actor refused to participate in the equally famous picture - "The Bourne Identity" to star in
this film. Some scenes of the movie were supposed to be shot in Israel, but due to the escalation
of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2000, filming had to be moved to Morocco.
Tony Scott's thriller became a blockbuster hit, grossing $143 million worldwide and received
mostly positive reviews from film critics. Pitt was praised for playing flawlessly in
partnership with Robert Redford. Consensus reads: "The outcome of the kinetic Spy Game is
never in doubt, but it is fun watching Robert Redford and Brad Pitt work."
In parallel, Pitt did not miss the opportunity to star in the cult TV
series “Friends" as an invited guest.
The third film in 2001 was… Well, maybe you
can suddenly remember it, huh?... Of course, we are talking about the famous “Ocean's
Eleven”, a crime film by Steven Soderbergh.
Eleven people got together to rob a casino, Brad
was among them in the role of Robert "Rusty" Ryan, he is the right hand of the protagonist and
his best friend. He is elegant and balanced, but at the same time he is an avid
gambler and sharper. This was how the world saw the new image of the actor.
Each of the main actors went to reduce his fee in order for the picture to be released. George
Clooney set an example by limiting his income:
In an interview , he said
Quote: "We said, if we all get paid, we can’t make the movie, so why don’t we all just
take a big chunk of the back end, work cheap, and see if there’s any money at the end,"
Las Vegas became a huge filming venue. "One of the things that scared me when I read the script
was the amount of time we would have to shoot at the casino," Soderbergh said. The team was lucky
that one of the producers, Jerry Weintraub, and the owner of the Bellagio Casino were friends.
It allowed them not to be limited to shooting only at night and feel free to close this or that
part of the casino or turn off the fountains.
By the way, if you noticed, Rusty has an
interesting feature: throughout the film he constantly eats or drinks something. It was
the actor’s idea: Brad believed that with all the planning of a multimillion-dollar casino
robbery, there would simply be no time for hearty dinners and his hero would have to eat fast
food as soon as such an opportunity arises.
This interesting feature had another
side: in one of the scenes, the actor had to eat 40 shrimp while reshooting.
In order to convey the friendly atmosphere between the main characters, the actors
had to spend a lot of time together.
Jerry Weintraub recalls:
Quote: "It wasn't hard to do because they all liked each other and as soon
as they started spending time together away from the set, real friendships developed.
You can't buy that. When you have actors who can't wait to go to work and work with
one another other and be with each other, that's exciting. In all my years in
show business, I don't think I've ever had as much fun as I've had on this movie. "
The film recouped the cost of time and effort, and brought 450 million dollars. The casino robbery
adventure became so popular that the director decided to release two sequels, building a whole
universe of cunning robbers and evil billionaires in the Mojave Desert. That’s how “Ocean's Twelve“
appeared in 2004, and ”Ocean's Thirteen" in 2007. For participating in three parts, Pitt
received a very good fee - $ 30 million.
