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'Easygoing’ Brad Pitt Can Become ‘Volatile When Riled,’ Director Says


‘Legends of the Fall’ director Ed Zwick revealed there was tension with Brad Pitt on the set of the 1994 film

In an excerpt from Zwick’s new memoir, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood, the director wrote that it fell to producer Marshall Herskovitz to talk Pitt, 60, “off the ledge” when the actor “wanted to quit.” Based on a 1979 book of the same name, Legends of the Fall centered around three brothers — Tristan (Pitt), Alfred ( Aidan Quinn) and Samuel ( Henry Thomas) — and their father, Colonel William Ludlow ( Anthony Hopkins), who all reside in the wilderness in Montana. “Sometimes, no matter how experienced or sensitive you are as a director, things just aren’t working,” Zwick noted, claiming that Pitt “would get edgy” when they were about to film a scene that “required him to display deep emotion.”

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