“But now it’s like…” - Brad Pitt Gets Real About Today’s Hollywood vs. Back Then

Published 07/02/2025, 9:13 PM EDT

There are stars, and then there is Brad Pitt, a man who managed to make eating on screen an art form and heartbreak look like a designer fragrance ad. With a filmography that spans decades, from Fight Club’s underground chaos to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s swaggering nostalgia, Pitt is not just an actor; he is a full-blown cinematic monument. He has charmed, punched, and emoted his way into legend status. So naturally, when Pitt talks Hollywood, ears perk up.

As someone who has lived through both the golden age and the algorithm age, Pitt just spilled the Hollywood tea.

Brad Pitt sees through the glamour of modern Hollywood

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Brad Pitt, currently busy enjoying the success of his film, F1, took a pit stop at Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast to deliver wisdom from the driver’s seat of stardom. The Academy Award-winning actor discussed the fresh-faced talents flooding Hollywood, sharing equal parts admiration and concern. “But now it’s like, ‘We can be artists in many different arenas, so let’s do it and let’s enjoy it,’” Pitt observed, signaling a shift from his era’s purist obsession with prestige performances.

While Brad Pitt, who may be working on a new mystery movie, applauded the younger generation’s enthusiasm, he offered a gentle warning regarding Hollywood’s modern addiction to franchises and capes. The Kelce brothers noted the superhero fatigue epidemic, to which Pitt responded with a clear, cinematic warning: “They’ll die.” Whether metaphor or method actor melodrama, the message was unmistakable: chasing box office glory may be tempting, but it rarely ends with artistic Oscars or emotional wellness.

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Brad Pitt may not be known for saving the world in a metal suit or wielding a hammer, but he has technically dipped a polished toe into the superhero pool. He voiced the caped and chiseled Metro Man in the animated film Megamind, effortlessly parodying the all-powerful archetype with enough charm to make Superman insecure. Later, in Deadpool 2, Pitt delivered perhaps the most blink-and-miss cameo in franchise history as Vanisher, a hero who only became visible mid-electrocution.

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Despite these delightful detours, Pitt has largely swerved the superhero cinematic universe. Outside of the Ocean’s trilogy alongside George Clooney and Matt Damon, the actor has been remarkably franchise-averse. Like his Once Upon a Time in Hollywood co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, Pitt seems to prefer films where capes are metaphorical and dialogue is not filtered through CGI. In a Hollywood addicted to origin stories, Pitt remains refreshingly uninterested in playing someone else's masked messiah.

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Iffat Siddiqui

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Iffat is an Entertainment Journalist at Netflix Junkie. A word wizard, she had the sorting hat smoke at the seams owing to her excellence in everything Hollywood and cinema until it finally declared that she belonged to the Royals, specifically Meghan Markle. Boasting over 300 articles (and counting), each one tastefully infused with the right mix of facts, wit, opinion, and essentially everything to make a perfect pop culture piece, she is the epitome of a trustworthy entertainment journalist.

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