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TheSuccessionactor, 75, looked back at his career in a new video withVanity Fair, at one point reflecting on his time making 2004’sTroy. In it, Cox played Agamemnon. Cox said he had a “great experience” working with the “great cast” that included Orlando Bloom, Eric Bana, Brendan Gleeson, Diane Kruger and Sean Bean.
“I remember at one point,” he said, “just kind of being agog at Brad ‘cause, you know, he’d never been in costumes like that. We had all experienced these great costume epics because we’d spent most of our time like that, if we’d done the classical theater; we were always without pants! Brad walked on and my jaw was down because he was so stunningly beautiful.”
“I mean, I’m straight, but I just thought, ‘Wow! My God, this guy is stunning!’ " Cox added with a laugh. “What chance does one have sharing the screen with this beautiful, beautiful man?”
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Pitt previously opened up about howTroymarked a turning point in his career. The Oscar winner toldThe New York Times Magazinein 2019 that he was “disappointed” in the film.
“I had to doTroybecause — I guess I can say all this now — I pulled out of another movie and then had to do something for the studio. So I was put inTroy,” he said. “It wasn’t painful, but I realized that the way that movie was being told was not how I wanted it to be. I made my own mistakes in it.”
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“What am I trying to say aboutTroy? I could not get out of the middle of the frame. It was driving me crazy. I’d become spoiled working with David Fincher. It’s no slight on [Troydirector] Wolfgang Petersen.DasBootis one of the all-time great films,” continued Pitt. “But somewhere in it,Troybecame a commercial kind of thing. Every shot was like, ‘Here’s the hero!’ There was no mystery.”
Added Pitt, “So about that time I made a decision that I was only going to invest in quality stories, for lack of a better term. It was a distinct shift that led to the next decade of films.”
source: people.com
