“You work with a lot of actors, and after a while you start making notes, ‘I’m definitely never going to work with that person again,'” Taylor-Johnson said.
Don’t put yourself on Brad Pitt’s bad side.
According to Bullet Train co-star Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the Oscar winner apparently keeps a “shit list” of actors he doesn’t want to work with.
“He’s in a new chapter in his life, I think,” Taylor-Johnson Pitt explained during the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland (via Variety).
While Pitt is a “humble and kind person,” Taylor-Johnson added that the actor expects the same from his co-stars in return. “He just wants to bring light and joy into the world and be around people who are there to have a good time,” said the lead actor of Kraven the Hunter. “You work with a lot of actors and after a while you start making notes, ‘I’m definitely never going to work with that person again.’ Brad also has this list: the good list and the shit list.”
Directed by Pitt’s former stunt double David Leitch, the star-studded and cameo-filled “Bullet Train” also stars Brian Tyree Henry, Sandra Bullock, Joey King, Zazie Beetz, Michael Shannon, Andrew Koji and Bad Bunny. As a zen killer named Ladybug, Pitt’s performance in the stunt-action comedy is just another iconic role for the Oscar-winning Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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While Taylor-Johnson sustained a serious on-set injury that resulted in hospitalization, Pitt performed 95 percent of his own physical stunts and left the production with no “war injuries.”
“Oh, I definitely went home and went ‘ahh,'” Pitt joked diversity at the red carpet premiere. “But no. Aaron on the other hand…Brian [Tyree Henry]on the other hand… The Young’ins, you know.”
“We were in a fight sequence and I’m getting kicked across the room. And that one sharp part of the corner where there wasn’t any padding took a chunk out of my hand,” Taylor-Johnson said of his injury. “And I literally passed out. And then I came back and I was like, ‘Shall we go again?’ And they said, ‘No, no, no. You need stitches in the hospital.” So I spent the night in the hospital.”
Praising Pitt’s dedication to the weirdness of the role, David Ehlrich of IndieWire wrote, “Pitt has a really palpable amount of fun in it and the energy that emanates from him battling Bad Bunny over an explosive briefcase or styling his hair with the blow dryer.” a Japanese toilet is kind of magnetic enough to convince us we’re having fun, too.”
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