How Brad Pitt Became Thom Yorke’s Biggest Career Regret

THE pulp Fiction The director named Pitt “one of the last big screen movie stars”, alongside Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Steve McQueen, which was praised. “It suggests an old-fashioned movie star,” Tarantino continued. “He’s just a different breed of man. And frankly, I don’t think you can describe exactly what it is because it’s like describing the radiation of a star,” he concluded.

However, beyond the sheen of celebrity that he wears as a prototype of the perfect movie star, there is a depth of emotion that is reflected in his musical tastes. “What’s so important about Radiohead is that they are the (Franz) Kafka and the (Samuel) Beckett of our generation,” said the Once upon a time in Hollywood the star said rolling stone regarding the literary paths of one of his favorite groups. The actor is a devoted fan of the 1990s cultural legends, perhaps finding a kinship with the alternative rock band.

Pitt then enthusiastically added: “Thom Yorke and the rest of Radiohead are precisely that. I don’t think what comes out of it is something they could actually express, but I would certainly say it’s what we all know to be true somewhere when we’re in our deepest sleep. This is their importance.

They were therefore an ideal group to compose the soundtrack of a film which follows the strange and dark world of sleep, or lack thereof. When Fight club was in the works before its groundbreaking 1999 release, Pitt and co-star Edward Norton urged Yorke to provide the soundtrack. It would be a missed opportunity for the Radiohead man, who would later regret not having accepted the opportunity to work on this gigantic film.

David Fincher’s 1999 film is a cinematic achievement of the highest order, and the iconic role of Pitt’s Tyler Durden, the narrator’s schizophrenic alter ego, played by Edward Norton, has a huge role to play in that. Pitt knew he was part of something special even though the film was not initially well received by critics. He said: “I had that feeling on Se7en. I had it on True novel – that feeling when you know it’s true. So I know that feeling now. And it happened on Fight club.”

“Things kind of come into my office, but they haven’t really reached me,” Yorke told BBC 6 Music of past soundtrack deals. “The one I remember was from years ago, after we finished OK Computer and I was completely gaga. They asked me to do Fight club. They sent me the script and Ed and Brad Pitt wrote to me and said, “We really think you should do this.” I said to myself, ‘No, I can’t’. I couldn’t. I couldn’t have done it then, but every time I see the movie I’m like, ‘Oh,'” he said ruefully.

The star has since worked with Norton on Motherless in Brooklyn recently and has graced the big screen with his singular sounds on films like Suspiria And Children of men. However, the star missed out Fight club because of the pressure involved in such a project, and we wonder if, like him.

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