Regarding filmmaker Edward Zwick’s recollections about collaborating with Brad Pitt, a company source continues to push back. As Zwick writes in his forthcoming narrative, “Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood,” Pitt, who featured in the 1994 Western hit Legends of the Fall, did not appear to be the “volatile” one on site. This information comes from an individual who was aware of the film’s production. “They had disagreements,” a person connected to the movie tells PEOPLE. “But Brad was not volatile.”
The actress is described as “volatile when riled” by Zwick in his autobiography, according to an unprecedented extract that was published in Vanity Fair. Zwick recalls an afternoon when the director “started giving [Pitt] direction out loud in front of the crew,” which Zwick describes as “a stupid, shaming provocation—and Brad came back at me, also out loud, telling me to back off.” Legends of the Fall co-starred Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, and Julia Ormond.
The director of Blood Diamond adds in the autobiography, “In his defence, I was pushing him to do something he felt was either wrong for the character, or more ’emo’ than he wanted to appear on-screen, I don’t know who yelled first, who swore, or who threw the first chair. Me, maybe? But when we looked up, the crew had disappeared.”
