Interviewee: Brad Pitt
Interviewer: Charlie Rose
Date: 23 December 2007

Hollywood’s Golden Boy, William Bradley Pitt, is one of the most famous men on earth, and tagged countless times as ‘Sexiest Man Alive.’

En route to his A-list status, Brad Pitt had low-profile parts in Another World and Growing Pains. His breakthrough was 1991’s Thelma & Louise, wherein he played a ripped drifter who charms Geena Davis. Upon the release of Legends of the Fall in 1994, the blond stud was meteorically deified. Most memorably, Pitt portrays the crestfallen bloodsucker Louis opposite another stellar hunk, Tom Cruise, in Interview With the Vampire, based on Anne Rice’s gothic novel.

For all the marvel of his genes, Brad Pitt has time and again intentionally refused blockbuster roles in favor of artsy leads like in Seven. To downplay his attractiveness, he affected a demented visionary in the post-apocalyptic 12 Monkeys, for which he won a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination. He even took a scruffy turn as the sadistic Tyler Durden in Fight Club. Then he was swathed in tattoos for Guy Ritchie’s gangster flick, Snatch.

For 1998’s Meet Joe Black however, he belied his role as the Grim Reaper with his pretty boy looks. Eventually, he traded the ragamuffin for an out-and-out Adonis as the godly Achilles in the 2004 epic, Troy, by Wolfgang Petersen.

One of the more unforgettable Pitt vehicles was the remake of Ocean’s 11, and its two sequels. In 2005, he scored a box-office outing alongside Angelina Jolie with Mr. and Mrs. Smith, through which the two developed a real-life romance. Pitt was then married to Friends megastar Jennifer Aniston.

Pitt was nominated for his second Golden Globe Award for his performance in 2006’s Babel.

In a new segment of his show called Peer Review, Charlie Rose lets three of Pitt’s friends and colleagues ask the actor about his forays off the screen. Frank Gehry, Brad Grey and Chuck Palahniuk rise up to the occasion and prod him about his interests in, among others, architecture.

Brad Pitt is a founding member of the human rights group Not On Our Watch.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt adopt children.