Brad Pitt's 'diabolical' fart cleared out 60-person film set: 'THEY FLED'
'There was nothing I could do. I was stuck in this chair'
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It turns out Brad Pitt is just like the rest of us — when he has to fart, he’ll let it rip.
During a recent appearance on an episode of Travis and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast, Brad Pitt addressed the Internet’s obsession with how there’s always a scene where he eats in every one of his movies (one Youtube video titled 15 Minutes of Brad Pitt Eatinghas more than 2.7 million views). Pitt, 61, then recalled how on one of his earliest movies he had to repeatedly shoot multiple takes in which he scarfed down a plate of beans.
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“I haven’t thought about this for years. One of my first movies, it was this little independent film. We’re shooting in this little tiny cafe,” Pitt said. “It’s full of the crew, so there’s about 60 people in there. It’s hot. You can’t breathe. My character hadn’t eaten for days, and he gets his big plate of beans, first plate of beans and bacon. And I was all like, method (acting). I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m going to do this right.’ I just powered down this plate of beans. Take two, do the same thing. Take three, I do the same thing. Take four, I do the same thing. Then … Something hit me.”
As the Kelce brothers broke into laughter, Pitt said he was helpless to stop his sudden explosion of flatulence.
“There was nothing I could do. I was stuck in this chair,” Pitt recalled. “And nature took its course. Then there was nothing. I went, ‘Oh, great. I got away with that one.’ And then suddenly the entire crew… The most diabolical something something… descended on the crew in the whole room and they (fled) the cafe.”
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The incident ended up being an important lesson for Pitt, who appeared in a string of bit parts before landing his big break in 1991’s Thelma & Louise. “Ever since then, I’ve paced myself,” he said.
“Beans will do it to you, baby,” Travis replied.
Pitt’s eating in movies has come up before, notably during his press tour for Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood back in 2019.
“I have noticed you eat food a lot in movies,” his co-star Margot Robbie observed during one interview.
“I like to busy myself… I’m a grazer by nature,” Pitt replied.
When his constant munching during the Ocean’s Eleven movies came up, Pitt said there was a specific reason his character Rusty Ryan was always eating.
“There was actually method to that, because he was always on the run, always on the move, I figured he could never sit down and have a proper meal,” Pitt told Robbie. “So he always had to grab something on the run.”
He echoed that thought in his conversation with the Kelces.
“I figured he’s always waiting around. He’s like the consigliere of the group,” Pitt explained. “He’s got to eat on the run. That’s where this came from. There was thought behind it.”
But Pitt is still mystified how him eating on the screen became such a thing.
“I don’t know how I get this… People eat in life,” he told the Kelce brothers. “Out of everything I’ve done, that’s what I’m known for.”
You can listen to Pitt’s full interview on the New Heights podcast here.
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