December 18, 2025 • 9 mins
Today is Brad Pitt's 62nd birthday so we go over all the roles he could of had but passed up!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Today's a big day. Today is not only Emily's dad's birthday, wow,
but it is also I mean, they're basically the twins
Brad Pitt's birthday as well, in the same in the same,
in the same age. They aren't. Well, we don't know.
Do you know how old Brad Pitt is? I don't.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
My dad's seventy eight, so pretty close.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
I don't know Brad p pretty close.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It might shock you when you find out how old
Brad Pitt is. It's stunning.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Brad Pitt is turning sixty two years old today.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
The guy doesn't look in a day over twenty two.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
And what's crazy about Brad Pitt is he doesn't look
like he's over. I'm sure he's had work done, obviously,
but he doesn't look like he's had worked because he looks.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
A little weathered. Like in the New f one movie
if you go see it, like he has lines and
it's not like he's you know, but he's.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Not my eye cruise where Tom Tom sixty four and
Tom cruise like it looks like a sixty four year
old has had too much work. Yeah, yeah, looks great. Still,
there is crazy. Only one thing that thorn and I
agreed on on his best Looking Guys in Hollywood list
that I had to tap in for. I did mine,
he did his. We both agree. As long as there's
(01:16):
a list, Brad deserves a spot on. I mean, the guy,
the guy is just unbelievable. Id Eddie texted me after
you saw F one that end quote. The text was,
that guy's an f in the movie star.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And I stand by that.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You watch him on screen and you go, man, he's
a he's a matinee idol going on and what a dream?
Is the epitome of a movie star? Yeah, I don't
really care what you guys think.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You that, that's the same.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That is the same, that's the same.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
The saying is what are you? James Franco?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
What James Franco? I hope you're not.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Or that guy he's a great guy too. Didn't make
the list, So didn't make the list.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So Brad did. Brad's just stud sixty two, Damn, I
mean unbelievably. So apparently, you know, Brad's been in Hollywood
for what thirty years now, you know, a really long time,
and apparently everybody kind of considers Brad for the for
a movie role you go, you know who'd be great
in this Brad Pitt. Yeah, obviously. But Brad apparently has
(02:28):
been up for a lot of big time roles that
he said no thanks to.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Oh yeah, it's interesting because a couple of them have
reasons like conflicting with the other projects, and some of
them were just a hard pass that, you know, whether.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
It's wild to think about him in certain rules, like
it would have been a totally different movie exactly, Brad
Pitt would have been.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh yeah, oh, totally different.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So they gave us ten of them coming in number
ten because they ranked him by which ones, you know,
they thought were like big number ten Neo in the
Matrix Keanu.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Everyone was asked about that.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I kind of feel smith Will Smith really, yeah, I
can't imagine Brad Pitt. No, I actually that would have
been weird, but we would have been great. Yeah, great.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
It would have been kind of a different movie.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It would have been a little sillier.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Brad Pitt has never given a reason for that one,
but he says he's thankful he passed on. The believes
it belonged to Keanu Reeves and that was.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
The right choice in the long run.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Next another one with no explanation, but we kind of
know the explanation. According to reports, he passed on broke
Back Mountains.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Oh, I guess the man.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That would have been a different movie.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I guess the dream I would have seen it, now
you're getting.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I would have seen it broke Back. No, really, what
year was that.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Let's see two?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Something, four or five?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Maybe I wasn't ready yet, Okay, five, I was still
in high school.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Now, different story. I've said this before.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
The movie Ships Creak, the TV show Ships Creak. Yeah,
completely opened my eyes and made me realize how ignorant
I was for a very long time.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Wow, growing couple of years ago, weird say.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I'm sad to say, yeah, broke Back, gotcha there.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I guess the original dream pairing was Brad Pitt and
Leonardo DiCaprio.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
And Jack would have.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Been yeah, But the director did say they talked to
a lot of people and they kept getting no.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
That is a risky Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I guess he passed on the role as Big Daddy
in the movie kick Ass.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It ended up going to Nick Cage.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I guess he was also so he was off that
movie at the same time. He was offered Inglorious Bastards,
and he chose to work with Quentin Tarantino instead, probably
a good choice. He was offered the role of Patrick
Bateman in America's.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Psycho, like everyone was offered. Really, I always hear about
other guys.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, yeah, I guess there was an original director attached
to the project and Brad Pitton that guy were like tight.
But then I guess that guy the more he kind
of got the vibe of the movie, he was like,
this is way too violent for what I do.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Didn't he didn't know what the movie was.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I guess he knew, but not like the level of
what they were gonna show.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, I guess it's the same guy who directed The Fly,
so they kind of thought because he was in horror,
like that would be as vibe, but it wasn't. So
when the director left, Brad was attached to the director
and of the movie, so he left as well. He
was supposed to or offered the role of Russell Hammond
in Almost Famous.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Oh Yeah, the Golden God roof.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, interesting, yeah, I can see that, So.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I guess when he was offered it, the script wasn't
one hundred percent done and he was still in the
middle of working on Fight Club, and so because the
script wasn't finished, he said, no, I'm going to focus
on fight Club. You can move along and offer that
to somebody else. He was offered the role of Colin
Sullivan in The Departed.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Matt Damon's role.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Oh wow, I don't think Matt Thane was so perfect.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
He's such a weasel in that movie. Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, I don't think that works.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Brad could have been Leo's role.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Maybe, I think he's too pretty for Leo's role Rugged
in that movie.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Yeah, rugget one of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Well, I guess.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
He was part of the production company that got the
movie made planned, Yeah, and so initially he was gonna
be that role, but the more they developed the script,
they wanted more of a younger rookie cop to in
that role, and he thought he was a little too
old for that role. So that's when it went to
Matt Damon. He was supposed to be in Ford Versus Ferrari.
(07:09):
I guess Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt the first two considered,
but it didn't work out.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Went to Matt Damon and because.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Of f one they're really trying to push a Tom
Cruise and Brad Pitt.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Like sequel with oh him as Days of Thunder.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Guy, I love that, Clyde.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Top three roles Brad Pitt passed on.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Number three goes to Jason Bourne in the boorn ioad.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Why has he ever been the other than I know,
fight club, but he has ever been like a kick ass.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You wouldn't think that about Matt Matt Damon before Jason totally.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Totally, So I guess he was offered the part, but
he had just committed to star alongside Robert Redford in
the movie Spy Game.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah some cia. I don't even know a movie that.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, So that's why he didn't end up as Jason Moore.
It turns out he was offered a bit role, well
not a bitroll, but I mean it was a role
in the Shawshank Redemption Tommy Tommy the inmate tom Yeah,
you know Andy.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
This would have been before he was big.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
So that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
So he was offered the role and was considering it.
But this was before Thelma and Louise was released, and
that was his first like role that got him noticed.
So once Thelma and Louise was released and it turned
into a massive hit. His agent's like, you're too big
for this part.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
We're gonna turn this one ow wow. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
And the final role that Brad Pitt turned down on
his sixty second birthday today, Jack from Apollo thirteen.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Kevin Bacon's role interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yeah, him and Tom Hanks, but he wouldn't have been
the star. That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I mean, our astronauts that good looking though.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That's a that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
He could play an astronaut. Yeah, he makes sense.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, So he was offered the role as Jack, but
at the same time was offered the role in seven.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Going with seven thirteen.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Because he obviously was the star of seven, he wouldn't
have been the star of Apollo thirteen. Both are great
movies and both are like, you know, Academy Award winning movies,
but that makes way more And he was
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Really watch cres my wife, buddy, that's crazy awesome,
Good.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Today's a big day. Today is not only Emily's dad's birthday, wow,
but it is also I mean, they're basically the twins
Brad Pitt's birthday as well, in the same in the same,
in the same age. They aren't. Well, we don't know.
Do you know how old Brad Pitt is? I don't.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
My dad's seventy eight, so pretty close.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
I don't know Brad p pretty close.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It might shock you when you find out how old
Brad Pitt is. It's stunning.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Brad Pitt is turning sixty two years old today.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
The guy doesn't look in a day over twenty two.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
And what's crazy about Brad Pitt is he doesn't look
like he's over. I'm sure he's had work done, obviously,
but he doesn't look like he's had worked because he looks.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
A little weathered. Like in the New f one movie
if you go see it, like he has lines and
it's not like he's you know, but he's.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Not my eye cruise where Tom Tom sixty four and
Tom cruise like it looks like a sixty four year
old has had too much work. Yeah, yeah, looks great. Still,
there is crazy. Only one thing that thorn and I
agreed on on his best Looking Guys in Hollywood list
that I had to tap in for. I did mine,
he did his. We both agree. As long as there's
(01:16):
a list, Brad deserves a spot on. I mean, the guy,
the guy is just unbelievable. Id Eddie texted me after
you saw F one that end quote. The text was,
that guy's an f in the movie star.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And I stand by that.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You watch him on screen and you go, man, he's
a he's a matinee idol going on and what a dream?
Is the epitome of a movie star? Yeah, I don't
really care what you guys think.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You that, that's the same.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That is the same, that's the same.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
The saying is what are you? James Franco?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
What James Franco? I hope you're not.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Or that guy he's a great guy too. Didn't make
the list, So didn't make the list.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So Brad did. Brad's just stud sixty two, Damn, I
mean unbelievably. So apparently, you know, Brad's been in Hollywood
for what thirty years now, you know, a really long time,
and apparently everybody kind of considers Brad for the for
a movie role you go, you know who'd be great
in this Brad Pitt. Yeah, obviously. But Brad apparently has
(02:28):
been up for a lot of big time roles that
he said no thanks to.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Oh yeah, it's interesting because a couple of them have
reasons like conflicting with the other projects, and some of
them were just a hard pass that, you know, whether.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
It's wild to think about him in certain rules, like
it would have been a totally different movie exactly, Brad
Pitt would have been.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh yeah, oh, totally different.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So they gave us ten of them coming in number
ten because they ranked him by which ones, you know,
they thought were like big number ten Neo in the
Matrix Keanu.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Everyone was asked about that.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I kind of feel smith Will Smith really, yeah, I
can't imagine Brad Pitt. No, I actually that would have
been weird, but we would have been great. Yeah, great.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
It would have been kind of a different movie.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It would have been a little sillier.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Brad Pitt has never given a reason for that one,
but he says he's thankful he passed on. The believes
it belonged to Keanu Reeves and that was.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
The right choice in the long run.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Next another one with no explanation, but we kind of
know the explanation. According to reports, he passed on broke
Back Mountains.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Oh, I guess the man.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That would have been a different movie.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I guess the dream I would have seen it, now
you're getting.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I would have seen it broke Back. No, really, what
year was that.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Let's see two?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Something, four or five?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Maybe I wasn't ready yet, Okay, five, I was still
in high school.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Now, different story. I've said this before.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
The movie Ships Creak, the TV show Ships Creak. Yeah,
completely opened my eyes and made me realize how ignorant
I was for a very long time.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Wow, growing couple of years ago, weird say.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I'm sad to say, yeah, broke Back, gotcha there.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I guess the original dream pairing was Brad Pitt and
Leonardo DiCaprio.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
And Jack would have.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Been yeah, But the director did say they talked to
a lot of people and they kept getting no.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
That is a risky Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I guess he passed on the role as Big Daddy
in the movie kick Ass.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It ended up going to Nick Cage.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I guess he was also so he was off that
movie at the same time. He was offered Inglorious Bastards,
and he chose to work with Quentin Tarantino instead, probably
a good choice. He was offered the role of Patrick
Bateman in America's.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Psycho, like everyone was offered. Really, I always hear about
other guys.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, yeah, I guess there was an original director attached
to the project and Brad Pitton that guy were like tight.
But then I guess that guy the more he kind
of got the vibe of the movie, he was like,
this is way too violent for what I do.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Didn't he didn't know what the movie was.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I guess he knew, but not like the level of
what they were gonna show.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, I guess it's the same guy who directed The Fly,
so they kind of thought because he was in horror,
like that would be as vibe, but it wasn't. So
when the director left, Brad was attached to the director
and of the movie, so he left as well. He
was supposed to or offered the role of Russell Hammond
in Almost Famous.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Oh Yeah, the Golden God roof.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, interesting, yeah, I can see that, So.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I guess when he was offered it, the script wasn't
one hundred percent done and he was still in the
middle of working on Fight Club, and so because the
script wasn't finished, he said, no, I'm going to focus
on fight Club. You can move along and offer that
to somebody else. He was offered the role of Colin
Sullivan in The Departed.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Matt Damon's role.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Oh wow, I don't think Matt Thane was so perfect.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
He's such a weasel in that movie. Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, I don't think that works.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Brad could have been Leo's role.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Maybe, I think he's too pretty for Leo's role Rugged
in that movie.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Yeah, rugget one of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Well, I guess.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
He was part of the production company that got the
movie made planned, Yeah, and so initially he was gonna
be that role, but the more they developed the script,
they wanted more of a younger rookie cop to in
that role, and he thought he was a little too
old for that role. So that's when it went to
Matt Damon. He was supposed to be in Ford Versus Ferrari.
(07:09):
I guess Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt the first two considered,
but it didn't work out.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Went to Matt Damon and because.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Of f one they're really trying to push a Tom
Cruise and Brad Pitt.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Like sequel with oh him as Days of Thunder.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Guy, I love that, Clyde.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Top three roles Brad Pitt passed on.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Number three goes to Jason Bourne in the boorn ioad.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Why has he ever been the other than I know,
fight club, but he has ever been like a kick ass.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You wouldn't think that about Matt Matt Damon before Jason totally.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Totally, So I guess he was offered the part, but
he had just committed to star alongside Robert Redford in
the movie Spy Game.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah some cia. I don't even know a movie that.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, So that's why he didn't end up as Jason Moore.
It turns out he was offered a bit role, well
not a bitroll, but I mean it was a role
in the Shawshank Redemption Tommy Tommy the inmate tom Yeah,
you know Andy.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
This would have been before he was big.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
So that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
So he was offered the role and was considering it.
But this was before Thelma and Louise was released, and
that was his first like role that got him noticed.
So once Thelma and Louise was released and it turned
into a massive hit. His agent's like, you're too big
for this part.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
We're gonna turn this one ow wow. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
And the final role that Brad Pitt turned down on
his sixty second birthday today, Jack from Apollo thirteen.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Kevin Bacon's role interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yeah, him and Tom Hanks, but he wouldn't have been
the star. That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I mean, our astronauts that good looking though.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That's a that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
He could play an astronaut. Yeah, he makes sense.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, So he was offered the role as Jack, but
at the same time was offered the role in seven.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Going with seven thirteen.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Because he obviously was the star of seven, he wouldn't
have been the star of Apollo thirteen. Both are great
movies and both are like, you know, Academy Award winning movies,
but that makes way more And he was
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Really watch cres my wife, buddy, that's crazy awesome,
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