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Brad Pitt: Roles
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William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor, film producer, and social activist. He became famous during the mid 1990s after starring in several major Hollywood films.[1] Pitt was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award, both of which were for his role in the 1995 film Twelve Monkeys.[1]
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Celebrities such as Brad Pitt are notorious for completely transforming themselves within a few months to get ready for a certain film role. Over the years Brad Pitt has slimmed, bulked and cut for various roles. Let’s take a look at some of those movies over the last 15 years that have seen Pitt take on the challenge of shaping up.
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Following his performance in Redford's film, Pitt appeared in Kalifornia and True Romance (both 1993), two road movies featuring fallen women and violent sociopaths. Pitt's next major role did not arrive until early 1994, when he was cast as the lead of the gorgeously photographed Legends of the Fall. As he did in A River Runs Through It, Pitt portrayed a free-spirited, strong-willed brother, but this time had greater opportunity to further develop his enigmatic character. Following the film's release, People magazine dubbed him the Sexiest Man Alive. Later that same year, fans watched in anticipation as Pitt exchanged his outdoorsy persona for the brooding, gothic posturing of Anne Rice's tortured vampire Louis in the film adaptation of -Interview With the Vampire. Starring opposite Tom Cruise, Pitt enjoyed the fame generated by the film's success.
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In 1994, Pitt played vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac in the movie adaptation of Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire. The role of the eighteenth-century vampire required Pitt to endure several hours of make-up being applied every day to achieve the characteristic white skin; Pitt wore a pair of luminous green eyes, vampire fangs, and a shoulder-length hairpiece to complete the appearance. Pitt's co-stars included the eleven-year-old Kirsten Dunst, Tom Cruise, Christian Slater, and Antonio Banderas. He then starred in Legends of the Fall and Se7en. In Se7en, Pitt starred alongside Morgan Freeman as the police detective David Mills who hunts a serial killer played by Kevin Spacey. Pitt was then nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Jeffrey Goines in the 1995 film Twelve Monkeys.
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Despite what he says, Pitt won a Golden Globe award as well as receiving an Academy Award nomination for his supporting role in Twelve Monkeys (1995). His talent was ... recognized when he played against type in Snatch (2000), as a gypsy named Mickey who goes beserk when his mother is killed. Although he teamed up with other big box office names such as Julia Roberts in The Mexican (2000) and Robert Redford in Spy Game (2001), neither film was a hit. However, the action adventure Troy (2004), in which he starred as Achilles, made over $133 million at the box office and was the basis for Brad winning the 2004 Teen Choice Award as Choice Movie Actor - Drama/Action Adventure.
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In 2000, Pitt played the role of Mickey, an Irish Gypsy boxer in the gangster movie Snatch, alongside Vinnie Jones and Benicio del Toro. The film was a wild caper involving a diamond heist, the Russian and American mafia and the shady underground world, that saw Pitt brought in as a ringer by two failing promoters. The movie saw him moving on from the conventional Northern Irish accent he attempted in The Devil's Own; Pitt created a just-barely-intelligible accent suggesting the Irish Gypsies, referred to as Pikeys in the movie. Pitt continued to train for the role, and honed his boxing skills at Ricky English's gym in Watford.
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