Invested in His Craft
But let’s circle back to the talent that made him famous: acting. How far would you go to enhance your craft? Method actors are famously dedicated, putting in substantial effort to “become” their characters throughout filming, and often for some time before and after. For other actors, this frequently involves thorough character research and sometimes even undertaking excursions, some of which can be rather dark.
For Brad Pitt, such a dark excursion took him to a mental institution. To prepare for his upcoming role as a mentally disturbed individual in the 1995 film “Twelve Monkeys,” he visited a psychiatric ward in Philadelphia (or rather, “checked himself in”). Hey, sometimes you’ve got to get your hands dirty.