When it comes to film, Brad Pitt has pretty much done it all. He's had action roles, played a romantic lead, been in some funny spots, and any other scenario fans could imagine. Plus, he's acted as a producer and director for a few projects, too.
Not every film has been a hit, and some performed absolutely abysmally at the box office, despite having a hunky lead actor plastered all over the promotional posters. In fact, fans called one of Pitt's movies the most boring ever.
Through it all, though, Brad has backed every project he's been part of and has been unashamedly open when it comes to the roles he accepts.
So to find out that there was one role Brad hated so much that he tried to get out of his contract was a bit of a surprise for fans. In his defense, it was a long time ago, and he's probably grown a ton as an actor since then.
But as Nola explained, filming 'Interview with the Vampire' was "miserable" for Brad. The 1994 film positioned Brad and Tom as co-stars in a surprisingly big budget endeavor. It may not have seen the same success as 'Twilight,' vampire-wise, but 'Interview' was a pretty essential step in Brad's path toward global fame.
Still, Nola quoted, Brad was "miserable" on set after spending six months "in the [bleeping] dark." Portions of the movie were filmed on-site in New Orleans, Louisiana, on a plantation and in actual graveyards.
But parts of it were also filmed in London, in the "dead of winter," said Pitt. He called the set a "cauldron, this mausoleum" and noted that once they were done shooting for the day, it was already pitch black outside.
Not only did the environment — and the pasty makeup, yellow contact lenses, and "Lion King" hairdo — bring Brad down, but his role also wound up being "uninteresting" and "passive," said Nola. After all, the original project pitched to Brad was based on a book; the screenplay dropped everything "interesting" about his character.
But the price of ditching out on the film was just too high, even though Brad, ironically enough, felt like the role was sucking the life out of him. He called a producer friend, recaps Nola, who told him it would cost $40 million to quit the project.
That reality check (even Brad isn't a billionaire) proved to Brad that he had to "man up" and see the project through, he recalled. And the result wasn't terrible; Rotten Tomatoes ranked 'Interview with the Vampire' as #26 on its list of Pitt projects. So, not awful and not excellent, but somewhere middling.
Pitt ultimately considered the experience an exercise in personal growth, and he likely hasn't tried to walk off set since.