“We had no furniture, we all slept on the floor”: Brad Pitt Neither Had Money Nor Girls While Living in a Bachelor’s Pad as a Struggling Actor

Looking on the bright side: If the best acting is derived from experience, that means the most brutal pain may someday come in handy. Someone who knows all about that payoff? Brad Pitt. Who started his career from scratch to accomplish all that he has today! Pitt described to The Telegraph how he grew up with all the Christian guilt about what he can and cannot, should and shouldn’t do.

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A Dream to Be on The Big Screen

Upcoming graduation from the University of Missouri, where he studied journalism in the 1980s, Brad Pitt felt unsettled, sensing something more fulfilling on the horizon, specifically on the west coast. Having harbored a deep passion for cinema in his heart and during his final weeks of tenure at college, Pitt made a daring choice!

“I was in college—I was studying advertising and graphic design at the University of Missouri,” Pitt recalled of his journey out west in a 1986 interview withTiger Beat. “I told my parents I was going to California to go to art school. I didn’t tell them I wanted to act. I always wanted to give this a try on my own. When I got out here, I started to check things out, and I never made it to art school.” Like most traveling students, Pitt was penniless and in need of a place to lay his head at night. Fortunately, he had some contacts to fall back on. “I knew this girl from home whose dad had a place out here. There was just a housekeeper living in it, so I got to say there free for a month,” he said.

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Living in California Wasn’t that Easy and Comfortable

After living in a friend’s place for a month, the young actor rented out an apartment with a group of guys. “there were eight of us living in this little apartment in North Hollywood. It was a blast. We had no furniture—we all slept on the floor in the front room. We had a TV, a toaster oven, and a stereo. What more does a guy need? We were all short on girlfriends and money!” the actor added.

Fortunately, it didn’t take Pitt too long to get his first auditions and acting roles. However, in the interim, he took on a few odd jobs and even challenged his housemate to see who could source the most humiliating vocation. “There is a place called the Job Factory, and every week they list all of these odd jobs,” Pitt told Tiger Beat.

“Those jobs kept me in Cap’n Crunch and peanut butter and Jelly. It finally got so bad that my buddy and I said let’s see who can get the most humiliating job. I won! I got a job with a restaurant called El Pollo Loco. I dressed up as a chicken, stood out on the corner of Sunset in one-hundred-degree weather, and flapped my wings for the Grand Opening. They liked me so much they asked me back!”

Pitt wished to be in a position like Kevin Costner in his Hollywood Career

Toward the end of his conversation with Tiger Beat, Pitt was asked where he saw himself in ten years (1996). “In ten years, I’ll be 32,” he replied. “I hope I am married with some Brad Jrs. I would like to be in a position like Kevin Costner. He’s on top and respected as an actor. I just want to be a respected actor. I want to make people feel things like how I feel when I go to the movies. I would like to have my own production company.” With all the desires and wills Pitt had, started his career which indeed bloomed and made Brad Pitt an astonishing actor with the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most powerful and influential people in the American entertainment industry.

With all the desires and wills Pitt had, started his career which indeed bloomed and made Brad Pitt an astonishing actor with the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most powerful and influential people in the American entertainment industry.

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