Compared to Brad Pitt’s handsome look and his love affairs, real fans wonder why he is always eating a lot in movies.
If you search with keyword why Brad Pitt, it come out first why Brad Pitt always eat. The second is why Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow broke up.
“He is like an unrestrained fat indoors man, an appetite addict”
“The reason why Brad Pitt acts is that he can get free food from his work”, YouTuber Boldthegold made an absurd conjecture.
Regardless whether you have ever observed it or not, as long as you have watched more than three movies starred by Brad Pitt, then you will surely remember that he eats.
In Ocean’s Eleven, the gambler played by Pitt has barely stopped since he appeared.
In most scenes, he is either eating fast food or drinking whiskey or coffee.
You can see that he speaks lines with month full.
You also can see he licks the food on the finger and wipes his month, that makes he super sexy and a little cool.
And Pitt, playing as a baseball team manager, still eats from the beginning to the end in the movie Moneyball
He almost eats all the food he can get and becomes totally a fat middle aged indoors man.
Pitt is so gluttonous in film that the Melbourne food platform Long Prawn has published a cookbook Fat Brad based on his food list in film.
Even though playing an insignificant role, he still enjoy his appetite. When he played the role Vanisher in “Deadpool 2,” he only asked for a cup of convenience store coffee.
And this is only a little part of what he have had in the movies. According to the statistics from LundgrensFrontKick, a Reddit user, Pitt on average has to eat 200 kcal of food for every starring movie, 4986kcal of food for all his starring movies.
82.5% of the food is eaten in 1990s and early 21st Century. And his appetite gets reduced after 2010.
But what makes audience curious is that those movies in which he ate more than 200+ kcal of food are rated better, and the box office is relatively higher compared to those in which he ate less or even nothing.
For example, in action movies such as “Zombie World War” and “Twelve Monkeys”, the roles played by Pitt is more hard-core and do not have much to eat. The average box office in the United States is only 68 million US dollars, and the freshness of rotten tomatoes is nearly 64. %.
But those movies, such as Ocean’s Eleven series, Moneyball, Meet Joe Black and so on have an IMDB score of more than 7 points. The US box office averages as high as 143 million US dollars, and the freshness of rotten tomatoes averages 67%.
When a phenomenon is concluded in statistics, it is no longer a coincidence, but a necessity.
Yes, both the audience and the film critics prefer Pete to eat in the film.
But we all know that Brad Pitt is neither the first one nor the only one that eats in the film. Then why is Pitt more popular?
Everyone needs food to keep alive without any doubt.
And Art comes from life, and is born out of reality.
No matter any role you play, you can get closer to the audience through the act of eating, adding realism and humanity to the role.
Although many actors know it and put them into action at work, Pitt is clearly better at it than most of his peers.
Caroline Liem, a professor of film and television performance at Pace University, is also a Hollywood casting director. He was responsible for the casting of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and “X-Men 2”.
Caroline thinks Pitt is very good at eating in camera. He is like the Lawrence Oliver in food and drink.
Yes, even talented actors can mess up seemingly simple tasks. They may bite too much, or too small.
“But Pitt is different. The audience can feel appetite from his chewing.”
“He is starving anytime and a real gourmet”
You can see that the coach that Pitt played in “Moneyball”, under the great pressure from feeling defeated in middle age and the baseball team, relieve the stress from food and drinks.
When he stuffed the entire Twinkie cream cake into his mouth, even during the answering gaps when he called, he stuffed popcorn and poured whiskey into his mouth.
In this way, the audience feels the same depression as the character do in his rude eating behavior.
Another movie where Pete uses such eating technique is “Kalifornia”, where he plays a murderer who eats rudely.
But when he added some little adjustments, such as grabbing food from the hostages, then the rudeness turned into vulgarity.
And in the Ocean’s Eleven series, his Yuppie eating behavior reflects his elegance as a profligate on the one hand, and on the other hand is consistent with his role identity.
As a thief, he has no time to sit down and eat a good meal when he is running around. He can only catch any gaps to replenish energy.
As a senior film and television practitioner, Caroline explained Pitt’s gluttony behavior from a professional perspective.
“This is one of the main elements of his acting.”
Yes, actors can use food to shape their roles, even if it is not required in the script.
“The actor knows the inside and outside of the character better than anyone on set. So if Pitt needs a sandwich, that’s what the character needs.”
Yes, every change of Peter’s eating posture on the screen will become part of the character.
Is he eating healthy food, junk food, or a feast? Does he eat with his hands directly or with a knife and fork? Does he chew and savor the food slowly, or does he gobble down instead of chewing? Does he make any sounds or keep silent when he swallows?
All of this will be fed back to the audience through Pitt’s well design.
But what is worrying is that Pitt seems to have been too deep in the drama and has begun to become “greedy” in real life.
That’s why I want him a little restrained, even if he never follow my advice.
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