Two strangers: Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis
Two strangers: Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis – Currently each one enjoys disparate careers, but three decades ago, Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis moved through the same Hollywood circles, hand in hand, hugging and walking their relationship through the events and red carpets of the world of cinema.
By Megan Sauer
And the situation was completely opposite to what they are experiencing now because Juliette was the most popular star in the relationship, an actress who had been nominated for an Oscar at just 18 years old, thanks to her work as a precocious teenager in Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear.
Pitt, on the other hand, was known as the attractive boy in Thelma and Louise (1991) and it would take another three years for his name to sink in, thanks to Legends of Passion (1994) and Interview with the Vampire (1994).
The courtship lasted four years, giving them enough time to shoot two films together and capture loving memories in Hollywood’s extensive photographic archive. But the relationship ended and each one took a different path. So different that although they live in the same industry, they are “two strangers now. ”
Sometimes it happens. Staying in touch with an ex from the past is a personal decision. After all, each relationship is different and the desire to know about the other depends on the reasons for the breakup and the residual emotions of each one.
If you like to turn the page, leaving the past behind or prefer to maintain a friendship. However, the case of Juliette Lewis and Brad Pitt draws attention because they have praised each other in interviews and are part of the same industry, where crossing paths at some event, gala or ceremony ends up being inevitable (unless publicists are in charge to avoid ‘crossover’ due to media attention, something I highly doubt applies to this story).
BRAD AND JULIETTE: TWO STRANGERS IN HOLLYWOOD
Brad and Juliette met in the 1990 TV-Movie, Too Young to Kill. He was 26, she was 16. At that time, no one blinked twice when the relationship made headlines because it involved a young minor, a detail that would surely spark an incendiary media conversation today.
In that film based on a true story, Juliette played a teenager historically manipulated and abused by adults who was sentenced to capital punishment for murder. Brad Pitt played the man who incited her to commit the crime. The relationship began after filming ended and while each one continued to rise with their respective careers.
Juliette became the object of desire in Robert De Niro’s Revenge in Cape Fear , a child psychopath in Kalifornia (her second film with Brad), and Johnny Depp’s girlfriend in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? Brad, for her part, was waiting for her big break while molding her talent with supporting characters and flops like Johnny Suede and Mundo Cool.
“We’re kind of at the love point where we just like seeing each other every day and we don’t get bored of each other, so it’s really, really nice. Plus, we can be together when we work, talk, and collaborate.
We want to work together again and again,” 19-year-old Juliette told the Los Angeles Times in 1993. In 1992 they attended the Oscars together in a ceremony where Juliette Lewis was the star of the relationship as she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Brad was her companion. And while she lost the statuette to Mercedes Ruehl for her work in The Fisher King , it was just the beginning of a promising career for Juliette.
The courtship ended after four years and then the spotlight, fame and success turned to fall completely on Brad Pitt .
“It was my longest relationship and we both lost our anonymity together. Great changes occurred in life, all related to that person,” he stated while, according to the newspaper, he stared into the distance. “We are strangers now. It is not weird? I don’t know him as an adult and he doesn’t know me. I know he likes interesting women, he always has, and I know he’s a Missouri boy who grew up in a very small place and it took great courage to leave.”
TWO DIFFERENT PATHS
Not only the international fame and popularity that Brad Pitt achieved after the breakup would have built the dividing wall that made them two strangers within the same industry. But also the paths that each one took.
Because while Pitt became one of the fashionable actors of the mid-’90s and a constant figure among the big productions that hit the billboard, Juliette entered a self-destructive spiral that distanced her from the privileged position she had in the film industry. industry at a very young age.
After the breakup, Juliette began to suffer the pressures of fame, falling into a spiral marked by drugs. She didn’t like having her image of perfect beauty imposed on her by dressing her and doing her makeup for her promotional photo shoots. She wanted to be herself.
“I was trying to do things on my own terms,” she recalled to The New York Times For example, to attend the Golden Globes she had bought a secondhand hair accessory for $15. However, when she was called for photo shoots, she would end up crying because of the pressure she felt. “It was hard. I had an implosion,” she said. “Marijuana became boring,” he recalled to People in 2010 when reviewing that stage.
“I was playing with the darkness and I just didn’t know how to handle it,” he said. She was only 22 years old and to achieve sobriety she entered a rehabilitation program based on the principles of Scientology, a church in which she grew up since she was little.
“When I look back on that period, it’s like looking at your life before you were potty trained,” she added. But then her career suffered. She continued making films but they were no longer outstanding productions like she was at the beginning. And so, while Brad Pitt rose in the firmament of the stars, she thanked her “angel” and “love of my life” Gwyneth Paltrow for the Golden Globe, in 1996, Juliette lived a completely opposite career.
Juliette Lewis and Brad Pitt
Juliette Lewis and Brad Pitt “are two strangers” now, according to the actress.
“People ask me about him just because he’s famous,” Juliette explained to The Guardian in 2009. “They don’t really ask about my ex-husband, which is a much more important relationship because we were married.” For her part, Brad Pitt said he still loved her to Vanity Fair in 2011.
“I still love that woman. There is a real genius there. I had a great time with her. I don’t want to go into explanations, she has her own visions of her and I respect them. She knows people.
The problem is that we grow up with this view that love conquers all, and that’s not the case, is it?,” she stated. Time passed and Pitt was crowned a new Oscar winner, media personality, blockbuster star and successful producer.
Juliette, for her part, expanded her career into music with her band Juliette and the Licks while she maintains a lower profile within the business. She spent a long time away from big productions, delighting with her natural acting through indie stories and secondary characters until she returned to garner unanimous applause with Yellow Jackets in recent years.
In the end, each one took such different paths that now they are two complete strangers . As often happens with those young loves that you lose track of as the years go by. The difference is that they are both part of the same industry.
