This weekend, Brad Pitt announced that he plans on retiring from acting in three years. Sure, a declaration like that should be taken with a grain of salt, especially considering the similar threats made by actors like Ryan Gosling and drunken directors like Steven Soderbergh, that turned out to be mere fantasies rather than concrete plans. Regardless of the sincerity of this statement though, Movieline wonders: Is it time for Brad Pitt to quit acting?
The bombshell came this weekend during an interview with the UK’s 60 Minutes program, during which Pitt revealed to correspondent Tara Brown that he would only like to continue doing his “business” for three more years. Three years is certainly a reasonable goal considering that in three years, the actor will be 50 years old and will have spent nearly three decades in front of the camera. On the other hand though, it seems like 2014 would be a premature exit for the actor, who some have said, never got the award recognition or praise that he deserved because of his good looks. If that is the case, then wouldn’t three years from now, when the actor’s youthful attractiveness evolves into a slightly less distracting visage, be the time for Pitt to shine?
The actor has been nominated for an Academy Award twice — for 1995’s Twelve Monkeys and 2008’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — but has never taken home an Oscar. This year, Pitt is in the running for a Best Actor nod for his turn as the beleaguered baseball coach in Moneyball, a performance that Movieline’s own Stephanie Zacherek considered a career breakthrough.
According to IMDB, Pitt has signed…
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