Brad Pitt may be prepared to end his career despite having reached a late-career high that was highlighted by an Oscar victory two years ago.
According to Pitt, his career is coming to a close in a new GQ cover story.
“I consider myself on my last leg,” he said before adding, “this last semester or trimester. What is this section gonna be? And how do I wanna design that?”
Pitt earned an Oscar in 2020 for his performance in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. According to the filmmaker, when Pitt quits acting, the film industry will lose one of its finest talents.
“It’s just a different breed of man,” the award-winning director said. “And frankly, I don’t think you can describe exactly what that is because it’s like describing star-shine. I noticed it when we were doing Inglourious Basterds. When Brad was in the shot, I didn’t feel like I was looking through the viewfinder of the camera. I felt like I was watching a movie. Just his presence in the four walls of the frame created that impression.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Pitt talked about his year-and-a-half in Alcoholics Anonymous. “I had a really cool men’s group here [in L.A.] that was really private and selective, so it was safe, because I’d seen things of other people, like Philip Seymour Hoffman, who had been recorded while they were spilling their guts, and that’s just atrocious to me,” he said.
Pitt will be starring with Sandra Bullock, Zazie Beetz, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joey King, Bad Bunny, and others in David Leitch’s Bullet Train this summer.