Brad Pitt Movie Trivia

Brad Pitt Movie Trivia is as follows:

• Auditioned for the role of "J.D." in the 1988 cult classic film Heathers and, even after showing his talent, casting directors thought him to be "too sweet" for the role, which later went to Christian Slater. He later played a similar role in the horror film Cutting Class in 1989.
  
• In 1996, after a five-years of searching, all of the lost footage of The Dark Side of Sun was found and returned to producer Andjelo Arandjelovic, who was working on getting a distribution deal. Brad Pitt was paid $1,523 per week for seven weeks.
  
• He was the third choice for the role of J.D. in Thelma & Louise in 1991.
  
• In 1991 Brad Pitt was listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1991" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 43.
  
• A short while after completing A River Runs Through It (1992), he went to Amsterdam where he lived for three months all by himself in a small basement apartment before returning to the USA to film Kalifornia (1993).
  
• He and his Ocean's Eleven (2001) and Ocean's Twelve (2004) co- stars, Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Elliott Gould, have guest-starred on the TV show "Friends" in 1994 but not in the same episodes.
  
• In 1995 Brad Pitt turned down a role as an astronaut in Apollo 13 to accept his role in Se7en.
  
• He was considered for the lead role in The Matrix in 1999.
  
• After watching Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Pitt asked director Guy Ritchie if he could be in his next film. But he couldn't master the English accent, so Ritchie gave him the role of Mickey the One Punch Pikey, an Irish fighter, in Snatch in 2000.
  
• Without being asked, he made an appearance on MTV's "Jackass" in 2000 where he did stunts with the cast, dressed in an ape outfit.
  
• He made a cameo appearance with Matt Damon for free in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind as a favor to Ocean's Eleven costar and close friend George Clooney who was making his directorial debut.
  
• He owns the rights to the Hong Kong thriller Mou gaan dou. He wanted it to be remade with he and Tom Cruise in the leading roles.
  
• In 2003 he tore his tendon during the production of Troy. His injury caused the production of Ocean's Twelve (2004) to be pushed back to April 2004.
  
• Wanted to play Darcy in Bride & Prejudice (2004), but wasn't able to work out the filming dates.
  
• He was listed as a suggestion in the Worst Actor category for his performance in the film Troy (2004). He did not receive a nomination, however.
  
• He has appeared in three movies with the number seven in the title (Se7en (1995), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)).
  
• He has also appeared in two movies with the number twelve in the title, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Twelve Monkeys (1995). His favorite movies are Planet of the Apes (1968) and Saturday Night Fever (1977).
  
• Dianne Wiest is his favorite actress.
  
• Has appeared in eight movies with a number in the title and only one of them uses an actual number rather than spelling the word out that is Se7en, which is a combination of the two. He has appeared in 1 movie with the number Zero in the title, 1 with the number Two in the title, 3 with the number Seven in the title, 1 with the number Eleven and 2 with the Twelve.
  
• Was considered for two roles which went to Johnny Depp: Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow (1999) and Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Both were directed by Tim Burton.
  
• Initially didn't want to appear in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), although it was he who gave the script to director Doug Liman.
  
• Originally cast as Colin Sullivan in The Departed (2006), but later dropped out.
• Has been in 7 movies where the title contains the name of the character he plays: Johnny Suede (1991), Meet Joe Black (1998), Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Chad Schmidt (2010).
  
• Considered for the role in Crimson Tide (1995) that eventually went to 'Denzel Washington'.
  
• Was trained to handle weapons by renowned Hollywood gun coach Thell Reed, who has also trained such actors as Val Kilmer, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Sam Elliot, Girard Swan, Ben Foster and Kurt Russell.
  
• He and Russell Crowe were director Ridley Scott's first two choices for the lead in American Gangster (2007). Crowe was eventually cast.
  
• Used to act at the Vandevort Theater in Springfield, Missouri.
  

Brad Pitt Trivia

Some of Brad Pitt's Trivial Information is as follows:

• Dated actress Juliette Lewis.
  
• Was a journalism major in college with advertising in focus.
  
• Dropped out of the University of Missouri School of Journalism Columbia.
• Did TV commercial for Toyota (Altis model) that aired only in Asia that increase the sale of the car.
  
• Has a home at Lake Mohawk in Sparta, New Jersey.
• Is the first man ever to be named "Sexiest Man Alive" twice by "People Magazine."
  
• He was ranked no. 6 on VH1's "100 Hottest Hotties."
  
• High school nickname was Brad the "Pitt-bull."
• He Owns and plays Taylor Guitars.
  
• Visited over 100 orphans affected by HIV at a facility run by The Salvation Army in South Africa.
  
• Has Single Engine Land pilot license and Occasionally flies a Cessna 208B Caravan belonging to Chivan Productions.
  
• Is a Vegetarian.
  
• In 1994 he was given the title of "Sexiest Man Alive" from People Magazine,after Legends of the Fall.
  
• Brad Pitt had to learn to fly-cast for his role in A River Runs Through It in 1992. He hurt himself most often while practicing.
  
• In 1995 Brad Pitt was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history.
  
• Broke his arm during the filming of Se7en. The injury was written into the movie.
  
• Listed in "People Weekly"s "Most Intriguing People" list in December 25 1995 -January 1, 1996 issue.
  
• Donated $100,000 to the Discovery Center which is a children's learning museum in his hometown of Springfield, Missouri in June 1996.
  
• He got engaged to actress Gwyneth Paltrow on 20th December 1996.
  
• Brad Pitt was chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world in 1996.
  
• In 1996 Brad Pitt purchased a mansion is Southern California from the actress Cassandra Peterson for $1.7 million. This mansion is full of antiques and has a "vampirish" look.
  
• Brad Pitt mutually agreed to split with Gwyneth Paltrow in June 1997.
  
• Brad Pitt was Ranked 32 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list in October 1997.
  
• In 1997 Brad Pitt was also Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.
• A girl named Athena Rolando, 19,on Jan. 7, 1999 after midnight entered through an open window into his home in hollywood, dressed herself in his clothes and stayed for 10 hours until the alarm went off.
  
• In 2000 Given title "Sexiest Man Alive" from People Magazine, and was also People's choice in 1995.
  
• He is the spokesman for Edwin Jeans’s ads in Japan.
• In 2001 he was also the face of the ads for a new Japanese canned coffee which is named Roots and was replaced in these tv ads in 2002 by Kevin Costner.
  
• In 2003 he and ex-wife Jennifer Aniston campaigned in the United States to save "EastEnders" (1985) from being axed there.
  
• Got into better shape and eventually gained over 20 pounds of muscle for Troy in 2004.
  
• Voted no. 1 in Company magazine's annual "100 Sexiest Men" poll, 2004.
  
• Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2005 Razzie Award nominating ballot.
  
• Premiere Magazine ranked him as no. 50 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature in 2005.
  
• In Nov. 2005 he visited Pakistan with Angelina Jolie to see the impact of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.
  
• Ranked no.15 on Premiere's 2006 "Power 50" list.
  
• Had ranked no.31 in 2005.
  
• In 2005, he earned $4,500,000 for a Heineken commercial that aired during the 2005 Super Bowl.
  
• In March 2007, he and girlfriend Angelina Jolie adopted a 3-year-old boy named Pax Thien from Vietnam.
  
• Voted no.6 in Elle (France) Magazine's "15 Sexiest Men" poll (June 2007).
  
• In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated his earnings for the year to be $35 million.
  
• Ranked no.10 in the 2008 Forbes The Celebrity 100 list.

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