Brad Pitt almost fired as extra

    by Tufail: Brad Pitt

    Brad Pitt recently opened up about a close call early in his career when he nearly got fired while working as an extra. He recalled a restaurant scene featuring Charlie Sheen and D.B. Sweeney where he played a waiter tasked with bringing up and pouring champagne. Pitt explained, "They show me how to do it. You got to pour, you spin, you" before trailing off, with the full story available in the attached clip. #BradPitt

    Transcript (en)

    It's a restaurant scene and it's the main characters, Charlie Sheen and D.B. Sweeney and a bunch of other actors that I wasn't necessarily aware of. And I am the waiter. I'm supposed to bring up champagne and pour champagne. They show me how to do it. You got to pour. You spin. You wipe the thing. I said, great. That's more than an extra. I come in. Well, it was a chosen extra. I got chosen. I was chosen. I got put forward. Oh, my God. And the whole game was, how do you get your SAG card? Yeah. Because you can't get a job if you don't have your SAG card. But you can't get your SAG card unless you've had a job. I know. So it's just catch-22. Specifically, you need to speak. Yeah, you've got to speak. That was the finish line. Barrier to entry. Yes. And like a jackass, they're having the scene. They're doing the scene. I get to the last actor, and she seemed lower on the totem pole. Like I thought, maybe. And literally, the scene is going on. I pour her champagne and I go, would you like anything else? I want the dailies from Matt. We do. Listen to this. Oh, my gosh. It was Kurt, Kurt, Kurt. First AD runs over. You do that again, you're out of here. Oh, my God. It was just Shane for the rest of the night. That's so funny. Took a shot.