It’s hard to think of a time before Brad Pitt was the A-list celebrity he is today, but everybody starts somewhere, right? In a recent interview with W Magazine, the Babylon actor reminisced about the early days of his career, including his first taste of on-screen love scenes.
Before he was Mr. Smith (Mr. and Mrs. Smith) or Cliff Booth (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood…), Pitt was a love interest by the name of Randy in the ’80s television show Dallas. “I had to roll around in the hay in a barn,” he recalled in W. “I don’t think I had a line. I was just rolling and frolicking.”
Maria Moratti/Getty Images
Though his scene in Dallas was seemingly insignificant, it gave him the experience he needed for his breakout role in the 1991 film Thelma & Louise. “Yeah, that was my entry into the big leagues, I guess,” he said. Pitt played the character J.D. that would become the love interest of Geena Davis’s titular character Thelma. “Geena [Davis] was so sweet and kind and delicate,” added Pitt. “That love scene, I think, went on for two days of shooting.”
Brad Pitt has since been awarded People‘s Sexiest Man Alive twice, proving that the one-episode stint on Dallas was only a sign of things to come. As for his personal life, Pitt has apparently stepped back into the dating game after his divorce from ex-wife Angelina Jolie, and is reportedly “living his best life.”
