Brad Pitt had starred in it – but he turned down one of the lead roles. Director Cameron Crowe has revealed that he had earmarked Brad for the role of Russell Hammond in the 2000 hit movie and was left in tears when Brad pulled out.
Speaking on the Origins podcase, Cameron revealed: ‘Brad Pitt was on my mind because I had a really good meeting with him around the time of Say Anything, and he was just starting out, and he just really had something.‘So, I called him with this to play Russell Hammond, and we spent about four months working on it.
He read with Natalie Portman.’He added that he ‘wept’ when Brad turned down the role: ‘I knew that [Brad] had never fully fallen in love with the character. ‘He had fallen in love with the idea of the.
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