Brad Pitt Says Younger Actors ‘Get Caught Up’ Trying to Lead Franchises: ‘I Keep Saying, Don’t!’

Brad Pitt has words of wisdom for the next generation of actors. 

On Wednesday, July 2, the 61-year-old F1 movie star appeared as a guest on the New Heights podcast, joining Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce while on a promo run for his new sports movie.

“Whoa! Brothers Kelce!” Pitt said as he joined the show remotely. “Sorry, I was late. I couldn’t get my s— together this morning,” he quipped after joking about not being able to reach 200 mph while driving on set. 

Jason, 37, later refers to Pitt’s character, Sonny Hayes, as “an old, grizzled veteran,” which leads the trio to discuss age. 

The former Philadelphia Eagles center confesses that he and his 35-year-old brother were used to seeing “these young guys come in” the NFL and how things have changed in the 13 years that they played professionally. 

“It was just very relatable for us watching that as a veteran football player,” Jason told Pitt of F1. 

The Fight Club star joked that he prepared for the role by stocking up on “a lot of old man jokes.”

Switching gears, Pitt said, “I like watching what the new generations are coming in with. To see what they’re up against and also the way they negotiate their way through it. I feel like they enjoy it more.”

“We were a little more uptight and had to be about acting. You didn’t sell out, you didn’t sell out, you didn’t sell out. And now it’s this thing of, ‘Hey man, we can be artists in many different arenas. And so let’s do it and let’s enjoy it,’ ” he continued.

However, he did share one critique. 

“They also get caught up in like, have to have a franchise or have to have a superhero or something like that, which I keep going, ‘Don’t. Don’t. They will die,’ ” the Academy Award winner said.

Throughout Pitt’s decades-long career, he’s only appeared in one franchise: Steven Soderbergh’s Oceans trilogy — 2001’s Ocean’s Eleven, 2004’s Ocean’s Twelve and 2007’s Ocean’s Thirteen — alongside George Clooney, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts. The closest he’s come to starring in a comic book franchise was his cameo in 2018’s Deadpool 2.

In F1, which made an estimated $144 million at the international box office in its opening weekend, Pitt stars as a washed-up Formula 1 driver who joins the struggling Formula 1 team APXGP. He and cocky rookie Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris) clash while trying to get the team their first big win.

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Weighing in on how this film differed from his past movies, Pitt told Jason and Travis, “It is shocking what these cars can do.” 

“You cannot believe the first time you get in it, that you can be barreling down at 180 at a brick wall and hit the brakes at the 80-yard marker and make a right turn, you know, slow down to 50. It’s like, it’s shocking,” he added.

F1 is now in theaters.