The detail that appears in almost all of Brad Pitt’s films and is partly the reason for his success: script demands or hunger?

Brad Pitt is one of the great Hollywood actors of our time. Not in vain, he has already won two Oscars - one as Best Supporting Actor for ‘Once Upon a Time in.... Hollywood’ and another as producer of Best Picture for ‘12 Years a Slave’ - and has been nominated on five other occasions. Most of his roles are memorable - how can we forget his characters in films like ‘Fight Club’, ‘Twelve Monkeys’, ‘Seven’, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ or ‘Babylon’ - and he has participated in more than 60 feature films. But the actor has a hobby that many of his fans may not have noticed: he almost always appears eating on the big screen. Why?

Why does Brad Pitt always eat in his movies?

Over the years, Brad Pitt has acquired a curious habit while working: eating. And not on one occasion or another, but in most of his films he eats something at some point or another; and in many of them almost constantly. From snacks in ‘Seven’ to a turkey leg in ‘Troy’, passing through a baguette in ‘Inglourious Basterds’, caviar in ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ or wasabi peas in ‘Bullet Train’, as well as a rat -fake, evidently- in ‘Interview with the Vampire’, although in this case due to script requirements.

Even in his early roles he appeared eating on screen, as in 1989’s ‘Cutting Class’ where he ate an apple or a hot dog in several scenes, or in 1991’s ‘Johnny Suede’, in which he scarfed down a meatloaf, fried chicken and beans. The actor has spoken of this curious habit in the past, assuring that “I like to busy myself, I’m a grazer by nature.” Although he also justifies it by the demands of the character, as in the case of ‘Ocean’s Eleven’:

“There was actually a method to that because [his character] was always on the run, always on the move, I figured he could never sit down and have a proper meal. So he always had to grab something on the run,” explains the actor about his role in the 2001 film directed by Steven Soderbergh. As a curiosity, it seems that Pitt has a predilection for turkey leg, since he eats it in up to five of his films: ‘Troy’, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, ‘Cool World’, ‘Point Blank Love’ and ‘Legends of Passion’.

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