{"id":162372,"date":"2024-12-18T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T14:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=162372"},"modified":"2025-01-12T11:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T16:36:12","slug":"happy-birthday-brad-pitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=162372","title":{"rendered":"“I always knew I was going somewhere \u2014 going out. I just knew. I just knew. I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there. I wanted to see them. I wanted to hear them.” — Brad Pitt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIt’s his birthday today. <\/p>\n

Turns out I haven’t written that much about Brad Pitt, and this needs to be rectified. I’ve got THOUGHTS on the man, and I have from the jump when he first got my attention, in Thelma and Louise, Kalifornia<\/i> and A River Runs Through It<\/i>. My friends and I had impassioned discussions about his performance in A River Runs Throught It<\/i>, where he easily and effortlessly plays – basically – what is the “Robert Redford role”. It’s not easy to do what Brad Pitt does. Because he makes it look easy, he has been under-estimated, the classic situation for many of our biggest movie stars. It’s a continuously frustrating battle. People are like, “Wow, he’s GOOD.” Well, yeah. He was good in Thelma and Louise<\/i>, not sure what’s so shocking. <\/p>\n

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\nHe’s just getting more and more interesting, and his performance in Once Upon a Time…<\/i> is one of those things that feels inevitable, necessary, but it took a Quentin Tarantino to dream it up and make it happen. <\/p>\n

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The main thing I have written about Brad Pitt is in the 2011 piece I wrote for Capital New York (now part of Politico) on Bennett Miller’s Moneyball<\/i><\/a>, a movie I really love. And Pitt is great in it. <\/p>\n

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