Brad Pitt hints he’ll give up leading man roles to work behind the camera

Hollywood heart-throb Brad Pitt is still very much a leading man three decades since he started his acting career, but he’s now hinted he could be ready to drop it all to work behind the camera as a producer.

Brad Pitt has hinted at pulling back on his leading man roles, declaring Hollywood “a younger man’s game”.

The 55-year-old, who is very much still regarded as a heart-throb after more than three decades in the business, makes the controversial comments as cover star of the August issue of GQ Australia magazine.

“I’m behind the camera on the producing side and I enjoy that a lot,” Pitt tells GQ.

Brad Pitt has come to terms that Hollywood has become a “younger man’s game”. Picture: Art Streiber/GQ Australia August 2019

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“But I keep doing less and less. I really believe that overall it’s a younger man’s game — not that there aren’t substantial parts for older characters — I just feel, the game itself, it’ll move on naturally. There will be a natural selection to it all.”

For now, Pitt is at the top of the game. He’s next to be seen on the big screen in Quentin Tarantino’s much anticipated Once Upon A Time In Hollywood alongside some of the biggest names in the business, including Margot Robbie, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dakota Fanning, Timothy Olyphant, Al Pacino, Kurt Russell and Emile Hirsch.

He has been in the industry for three decades. Picture: Michael Putland/Getty Images

The 55-year-old will next star in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Aussie Margot Robbie.

“Well, ultimately, what draws me, and what draws us all, is working with Quentin,” he said of the project. “He’s such an original voice in the lexicon of film and his sets are just full of enthusiasm and delight. That’s why we’re there.”

He continued: “Both times I’ve worked with him, it’s been an immediate ‘yes’,” referencing Tarantino’s acclaimed Inglorious Basterds of a decade ago.

Pitt is on the cover of GQ Australia August edition on sale Monday July 8. Picture: GQ Australia

“And I would think that’s true for all of us. You know you’re in great hands. And you know you’re gonna get to chew on some of the best dialogue you’ll ever get. I always describe his dialogue as like, if you’re in an altercation or you stick your foot in your mouth, you’re driving home and you think: F**k, I wish I’d said that. His dialogue is always the thing you wish you’d said.”

Tarantino, who is one year older than Pitt at 56, has indicated he will make just one more movie after his 9th flick, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Pitt believes him.

“I don’t think he’s bluffing at all,” Pitt tells the magazine.

“I think he’s dead serious. And I kind of openly lament that to him, but he understands the math of when he feels like directors start falling off their game. But he has other plans and we’re not going to have to say goodbye for a long time.”

To read more on Brad Pitt in GQ, click here.