Some filmmaker and actor pairings make perfect sense when you truly think about it. Or at the very least, some duos you’d think would get a studio excited about the potential. One of those is seeing Brad Pitt and Paul Thomas Anderson (“Boogie Nights”) working together, and when it comes to Pitt, he’s open to the idea.
During his recent appearance on The Kelce Brothers podcast “New Heights” to promote “F1,” Pitt revealed he’d very much like to work with Anderson when directly asked about a dream co-star or director the Oscar-winner would like to work with in the future that he hasn’t been able to.
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“I’m a huge [Paul Thomas Anderson] fan. I think he’s just damn brilliant,” Pitt said in response to the question of speaking a actor or director pairing into existence.
His latest pic, “One Battle After Another,” which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, is a loose adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon novel “Vineland.” Anderson previously adapted Pynchon’s book “Inherent Vice,” a stoner detective story led by Joaquin Phoenix. That upcoming film is set to be released on September 26.
We’ll keep our fingers crossed for a collaboration on another PTA period comedy or crime pic, but at this point, anything would be great.
Pitt isn’t the only A-list actor placing Paul Thomas Anderson on their filmmaker bucket list, as Denzel Washington (“Highest 2 Lowest”) mentioned the desire to do something with the director when he was musing about who he’d like to work with before retiring from acting.
You can listen/watch Pitt’s chat with the lads on their podcast below as their discussion moves between movies, racing, his brief cameo on MTV‘s “Jackass,” and much more.
