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...moving from Germany to Hollywood in 1987, Petersen has managed to make such bankable fare as In the Line of Fire, Air Force One and The Perfect Storm. But his condition is chronic, and its occurrences are memorable. "You know, I am amazed a bit by the proportion of Brad Pitt's pectoral muscles," he says, and gives a 10minute soliloquy on Pitt's physique. Petersen also muses at length on the importance of having soup at 11 a.m., the merits of eating at the same restaurant every night while shooting and his belief that Peter O'Toole secretly craves...
...perhaps Pitt cares about craft after all? "Talking about acting is for civilians," says O'Toole, who believes that Pitt is significantly underrated. "Brad's a modest man and a good-natured man and a proper man. And he approaches his acting with such style. If he were more expressive about it or proud--no, I must shut up. I sound like a f___ing granddad." When told of this, Pitt laughs. "See, that's so cool. I got to learn at the feet of a legend." Ask what exactly he learned, and the wariness takes over again...
There is no secret strategy behind Brad Pitt's career choices. "It's pretty damn simple, really," he says. "I get sent several things, and then I try to find an angle that I'm excited about. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it's The Mexican...
...credit, he remains uncomfortable with the attention. "That's why I thought it was interesting that he took the role," says Troy director Wolfgang Petersen. "I knew he could play Achilles, but Achilles is the pop star of his day. And many times, like in Snatch or 12 Monkeys, Brad shies away from being the pretty...
...Greeks had a word for it: hubris. But Brad Pitt's Achilles wears it well. Whether he slices through a horde of Trojan soldiers or blithely decapitates a statue of Apollo or struts naked through a tent--his elaborately muscled body a perfect subject for sculptor Praxiteles and already gold-plated by the sun--he gives a sense of the beast god luxuriating in his earned star quality. "I've known men like you my whole life," says the defiant virgin Briseis (Rose Byrne). "No, you haven't," Achilles replies, not as a boast but as a warning...