by Why does Brad Pitt regret his role in “Troy”? Although the film was a great success, the star does not have a good memory of this experience and that's why.
Released in 2004, Troy met with enormous commercial success, bringing nearly $ 500 million worldwide and attracting no less than 2.7 million spectators in France. The blockbuster has definitely consolidated the status of superstar of Brad Pitt, thanks to its memorable interpretation of the legendary hero, Achille.
However, behind this success, the actor feeds a certain resentment with regard to the project. During an interview with the New York Times in 2020, he revealed behind the scenes of his commitment to the film. Initially, Brad Pitt had to turn To the white sea With the Coen brothers, but this project was canceled. Warner Bros then offered to join the historic superproduction produced by Wolfgang Petersen.
The actor thus said that he had not had a choice: “I had to do Troy because, I imagine I can say it now, I had dropped another film. So I had to do something for the studio in exchange. So I was put in the Petersen film. It was not a painful experience, but I understood that the film was going in another direction than the one I would have liked. I myself made mistakes in this project and I realized that it did not look like what I wanted to do. It was a mistake on my part“He explained.
Despite his doubts, Brad Pitt Invested has been fully invested in its role, training intensively for six months to sculpt a body worthy of a Greek hero. He followed a strict diet and quit smoking. Ironically, he even injured his heel during a fighting scene, a tragic wink at the famous weak point in Achilles.
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The reason for his disappointment
His doubts, he finally owed them to the too commercial aspect of the film with which he did not feel comfortable, which made the shooting difficult for him.
“” “Each plan, it was as if we said: 'Here is the hero!' There was no mystery. It was at this time that I made the decision to invest only in quality works, for lack of a better term. It was a decisive turning point in my career, guiding me in the following decade in the cinema“He said.
He recognized as soon as Trojan had been a real heartbreaker for him: “This project was a great disappointment. When you try to manage your career, you receive a lot of advice. Some tell you that you should do this and that, others will tell you the opposite.»
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From, Brad Pitt followed a new guideline, by choosing more ambitious films made by filmmakers like Terrence Malick (Tree of Life), the Coen brothers (Burn After Reading), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel), David Fincher (Benjamin Button) or Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds then Once Upon Hollywood, who offered him the Oscar for best supporting role in 2020).
More recently, he shone in films like Ad Astra by James Gray, Babylon by Damien Chazelle or Bullet Train by David Leitch. Last year, we were also able to find him alongside his friend George Clooney in the action comedy of Jon Watts, Wolfs. Finally, he will soon be playing from F1® Joseph Kosinski's film (Top Gun: Maverick), which will be released in our rooms on June 25, 2025 and in which we can see him pilot – and according to another of his longtime friends, Tom Cruise, he would be “very good” in the field …
Despite everything, Trojan (and its long version in particular) remains a peplum very appreciated by fans, he who also presents a casting of the most impressive composed of Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger, Rose Byrne, Brian Cox, Brendan Gleeson, Sean Bean, Saffron Burrows, Garrett Hedlund and of course the Legendary Peter O'toole and Julie Christie.
L'Epic Troy is to be reviewed in VOD.
