Brad Pitt Names the Only 2 A-List Women Who Have Left Him Starstruck
Pitt costarred with the two A-listers in the 1991 hit Thelma & Louise, which has been considered his breakout role
He shared that he "got over" his awe "quickly" as he worked on the filmEven Brad Pitt gets starstruck!
The 61-year-old Oscar winner opened up on the Wednesday, July 2 episode of the New Heights podcast with Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce about the two female costars who left him starstruck.
'When I first met Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, I was. Yeah,' Pitt said of his Thelma & Louise costars. 'I got over it quickly, though.'
The 1991 film marked Pitt's first breakout role as he played the smooth-talking J.D., who schmoozes and sleeps with Davis' Thelma before stealing the friends' funds.
"Geena [Davis] was so sweet and kind and delicate," Pitt said of filming his sex scene with Davis in a 2023 interview with W Magazine. "That love scene, I think, went on for two days of shooting. She took care of me."
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And while Pitt was an up-and-comer at the time of his appearance in the film, he also left his mark on the film's stars.
"When I saw the film, the part that really impressed me, in addition to his good looks and great body, was his sense of humor because he really fleshed that part out in a way that wasn't necessarily in the script," Sarandon told Extra in 2021. "I thought, 'Ah, this guy's interesting, you know, he's not just a really gorgeous face.' '
"He took it as a character part and as we can see from his career, he really continued to push the envelope in ways that he really didn't have to when you look like that," she added.
Davis was similarly wowed by Pitt's performance in the film, opening up to PEOPLE in 2020 for the iconic movie's 30th anniversary.
"He just has 'it.' I could tell when he was auditioning that he was super talented," she told PEOPLE after the actor snagged his first Oscar. "He has done so many incredible things over the years. I don't think that it is unusual for him to be honored. He really is the 'star' of the moment, which is fabulous, and it is just great to see."
The Oscar-winning film has long been heralded as a feminist classic as it showed the two women taking ownership of their lives.
"Thelma & Louise changed my life. Really, it sent me in a different direction," Davis said in a 2024 panel alongside Sarandon and Mira Sorvino — moderated by PEOPLE. 'After that movie came out, it was completely different in that people wanted to talk to me about it and how many times they saw it or who they saw it with and how it impacted them.'
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