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Brad Pitt Tried to Quit ‘Legends of the Fall,’ Grew ‘Edgy’ During Scenes That Required ‘Deep Emotion,’ Says Director

“I was pushing him to do something he felt was either wrong for the character, or more ’emo’ than he wanted to appear onscreen,” Ed Zwick wrote of the 1994 film.

[Editor’s Note: Stay tuned later this week for IndieWire’s one-on-one interview with Anne Thompson and Ed Zwick about the stories he shares in “Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions.”] “I could see Brad’s growing discomfort as it went on,” Zwick wrote of the table read with the cast, including Anthony Hopkins and Julia Ormond. Brad had grown up with men who held their emotions in check; I believed the point of the [‘Legends of the Fall’] novel was that a man’s life was the sum of his griefs.

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