Brad Pitt is always eating in his movies.
It doesn’t matter the role, the actor is always spotted chowing down on something on-screen.
There’s even a 15-minute YouTube video montage dedicated to all of the times the leading man is eating in a film.
“I like to busy myself, I’m a grazer by nature, so…”, he told JOE during a 2019 press tour of “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.”
In a recent interview on Travis and Jason Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast, the brothers asked him about it.
The actor explained how he uses that to further his character’s personality in projects.
“I think it was in ‘Ocean’s’ and I figure he’s always waiting around. He’s like the consigliere of the group, and he’s always doing this and doing this and he’s gotta eat on the run,” Pitt explained. “That’s where this came from. There was thought behind it. And now, anytime I eat in a film — I guess I’m a bit of a grazer, yes, okay. But everything I’ve done, that’s what I’m known for.”
He then revealed the best on-screen snack he had.
“I had an ice cream sundae. I remember an ice cream sundae, a big parfait thing.”
Then he revealed how that form of Method acting wasn’t always positive.
“I’ll tell you a story. I hadn’t thought about this for years,” Pitt told the brothers. “One of my first movies, I’m doing this little independent film. We’re shooting in this little tiny cafe. It’s full of the crew, so there’s about 60 people in there. It’s hot. You can’t breathe. And my character hadn’t eaten for days and he gets his big plate of beans, first plate of beans and bacon.”
For the scene, Pitt explained that he went “full-send on the method acting, but it ended up taking more than one take.
“I just powered down this plate of beans. Take two, I do the same thing. Take three, I do the same thing. Take four, I do the same thing,” he recalled. “Something hit me. And there was nothing I could do. I was stuck in this chair, and nature took its course. And then there was nothing. I went, ‘Oh, great. I got away with that one.'”
However, he was wrong. Very wrong.
“Then suddenly, the entire crew, the most diabolical something, something descended on the crew in the whole room and they flee the cafe,” the “Meet Joe Black” actor continued. “Flee. So ever since then, I’ve paced myself.”
The brothers burst into laughter with Travis wiping away tears.
“You should be proud,” the Philadelphia Eagles alum said. “You clear a room, that’s a feat.”
Pitt was on the show to promote his new movie “F1,” which is in theaters now.
