Brad Pitt has starred in more blockbusters than most actors can dream of, throughout his stellar career he has appeared in numerous modern masterpieces, but he can still lament having turned down projects that became truly iconiclike ‘Life Sentence’, to which he said no for ‘Interview with the Vampire’, both from 1994.
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Frank Darabont directed The Shawshank Redemption, which has been ranked the #1 movie of all time by fans voting on IMDb since 2008. The young Pitt made quite an impression with Darabont. while he was casting the role of him as JD, the thief who breaks his parole and seduced Geena Davis’ Thelma in ‘Thelma & Louise.’ The director cast him because he seemed perfect as the charming Tommy Williamsa character who had gone through 13 prisons for robbery in his short life.
Instead, Pitt decided to accept the role with the most screen time of Louis in ‘Interview with the Vampire’although he has no problem with the election, as he told USA Today:
“It would have been great to be there, but I’m not a regrettable guy in that sense. I just believe in the way things work, and that was someone else’s role. Even the feeling of, ‘Ooh, that would have been well’ would redirect a choice later down the road. So it all works in tandem that way.”
It is not the only role that he has rejected in his careeramong other films, could have been in:
- Matrix (Wachowski sisters, 1999)
- apollo 13 (Ron Howard, 1995)
- The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman, 2002)
- Life imprisonment (Frank Darabont, 1994)
- almost famous(Cameron Crowe, 2000)
- Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006)
During the promotional campaign for his latest film ‘Bullet Train’, Pitt spoke about hisu attitude towards new projects with BBC Radio.
“‘No’, it’s the strongest word we have, it’s more important to what we say no than to what we say yes. We have to say no 10, 20, 30 times before we find a yes. I’ve put some major successes past me , but they weren’t mine, because any actor who ended up doing it is theirs.”