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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Actors on steroids (I)
















(Left, Brad Pitt at age 28 in Thelma and Louise; above, at age 41 in Troy)


Brad Pitt has always been more of a pretty boy than an actor. At his best, he is good at acting cool, as he did in the Oceans series. He is also proficient at underacting, an underrated talent. He did this creditably in Seven and elsewhere. He has certainly made the most of his good looks, parlaying that handsomest-boy-at-his-high-school face into international stardom.

He is evidently doing his best to make the most of his body, as well, making the jump from looking like an ex-high school swimmer (which he was) to looking like a professional wrestler.

After a lifetime of watching people develop and change physically, I can assure you that this is not the normal pattern of change from age 28 to 41.

The photographs above force you to one of two conclusions: either Pitt the Younger was anorexic, or Pitt the Elder is juicing.

(He was never anorexic.)

One of the side effects of taking steroids is that your own natural testosterone production shuts off, which is why men who go off the juice become impotent and sometimes even grow breasts. Pitt now lives with a woman many consider one of the most desirable in the world, yet when he's not juicing, his testosterone levels -- and therefore his desire to have sex -- must be minimal.

How does this affect Pitt's relationship with Angelina Jolie? Might this possibly account for the put out expression she normally seems to be wearing when photographed with him?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Brad Pitt is okay - he's never been a favorite of mine. His wife, Angelina, is a woman who has struck me as odd at times. She is not a great looking woman, a true beauty.

-birdie

John Craig said...

Birdie --
I'm with you on both of them. Brad Pitt is okay, Jolie is overrated in the looks department.