Brad Pitt Tried to Go Method by Eating Four Plates of Beans While Filming; His ‘Diabolical’ Flatulence Forced the 60-Person Crew to Flee Set

Brad Pitt appeared on the “New Heights” podcast and told a story to hosts Jason and Travis Kelce about the time he tried to be a Method actor on set and failed with hilarious results. It was one of the first movies Pitt had booked. A scene required him to eat a plate of beans. So that’s what Pitt, trying to be a serious actor, did take after take.

“We’re shooting in this little tiny cafe,” Pitt said. “It’s full of the crew, so there’s about 60 people in there. It’s hot. You can’t breathe. My character hadn’t eaten for days, and he gets his big plate of beans, first plate of beans and bacon. And I was all like, Method, you know? I was like, yeah, I’m going to do this right. I just powered down this plate of beans. Take two, do the same thing. Take three, I do the same thing. On four, I do the same thing. Then oh no. Something hit me.”

“There was nothing I could do. I was stuck in this chair,” Pitt said as the Kelce brothers reacted with uncontrollable laughter. “And nature took its course. Then there was nothing. I went, oh, great. I got away with that one. And then suddenly the entire crew… The most diabolical something… something descended on the crew in the whole room and they fled the cafe.”

Ironically, Pitt would go on to become quite synonymous with eating on screen. There are even YouTube supercuts devoted to scenes in which his characters eat. One such video, titled “15 Minutes of Brad Pitt Eating,” has 2.7 million views. The Oscar winner told the Kelce brothers that he doesn’t understand why food became such a career identifier considering everyone eats.

Pitt is currently on the big screen, sans food, in “F1,” which powered to a $144 million global opening to give Apple its biggest start yet at the box office. Knowledge sources told Variety that sequel discussions are already being had.

Listen to Pitt’s full interview on the “New Heights” podcast here.