Brad Pitt Open To Streaming Series If One Felt Right, Inspired By Kate Winslet’s ‘Mare Of Easttown’ & ‘The Regime’: “She’s Fired Some Beauties”

You might remember that Brad Pitt got his start with commercials and TV shows via various minor roles such as on “21 Jump Street,” “Another World,” “Growing Pains,” and more, but is now musing about potentially doing a streaming television series in the future, thanks to the inspiring recent work of Kate Winslet‘s work on HBO/HBO Max shows such as “Mare of Easttown” and “The Regime.”

During his new chat with Esquire Magazine (where he also talked up the positives of using generative AI), the actor revealed that he’s now more open to tackling television/streaming after seeing Winslet kill it on her recent series work and shared some praise. As if “one felt right,” he’d end up making it, despite never really leading a TV series in the past.

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“Winslet’s done a couple,” Pitt said of Winslet, although not knowing her personally. “She’s fired some beauties. ‘Mare of Easttown.’ Staggering. But then this last one she did, ‘The Regime,’ was just bonkers. She just commits, man. I love her commitment. I’ve tried to put in that level of commitment, certainly in ‘Riders,’ this last thing I did, coming off watching Kate.”

As far as what’s next for Pitt in the future, he’s working with director Edward Berger (“Conclave”) on the A24 family drama “The Riders,” and is going to be returning for “Ocean’s 14” at Warner Bros. alongside George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle, and Matt Damon (although we’re still waiting to learn who is directing that one). There is also some early development on “F1” and “World War Z” sequels, the latter happening after David Fincher was once attached and it headed into limbo.

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Coming to theaters next month is the survival pic “Heart of the Beast” as Pitt plays a vet who needs to rely on his war-weary pooch to help him get out of the Alaskan wilderness alive, and he returns to the world of “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” with the Fincher-helmed “The Adventures of Cliff Booth,” as the stuntman makes a pivot to Hollywood fixer in the 1970s (bringing him back to the role that earned him a Best Supporting Oscar statue and features a script written by Quentin Tarantino).