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Brian Cox has admitted he was left 'agog' at Brad Pitt's smoldering good looks when they worked together on Troy.'I mean I'm straight, you know, but I just thought: "Wow! My God, this guy is stunning,"' Brian, 75, revealed during a new video interview with Vanity Fair.The 2004 movie told the story of the Trojan War, with Brian playing the invading king Agamemnon and Brad as the peerless fighter Achilles. Letting it out:Brian Cox has admitted he was left 'agog' at Brad Pitt's smoldering good looks when they worked together on Troy Brad in Troy:'I mean I'm straight, you know, but I just thought: "Wow! My God, this guy is stunning,"' Brian, 75, revealed during a new video interview with Vanity Fair'You know I remember one point you know, just kind of being agog at, you know, at Brad, because you know, he'd never been in costumes like that,' he said.Brad spent the movie in flesh-flashing armor that allowed him to show off his statuesque figure to sizzling advantage.

Among Sean Connery’s handful of decidedly un-James Bond performances, playing ancient Greek King Agamemnon in Terry Gilliam’s hit 1981 fantasy comedy Time Bandits has to be up there. But the actor — who’d long since completed his first run of five 007 films and had moved onto serious roles with the likes of The Man Who Would Be King, Robin and Marian and A Bridge Too Far — was only ever written into the script as a joke.