A new memoir has kicked up a storm of controversy about a twenty-year-old movie.
Director Ed Zwick just published a book which, among other things, claims that he and Brad Pitt had a huge fight because, Zwick claims, he was over-aggressive in trying to coax a great performance out of Pitt while making 1994 Western “Legends of the Fall.”
But the tale has so riled insiders that set sources from way back then have come out of the woodwork to defend Pitt. They say that the actor’s angst wasn’t because Zwick was a courageous molder of talent — it was “because he’s an asshole.”
One set source affirmed that it wasn’t just Pitt who had had it with Zwick while shooting the Western. “He screamed at people,” an insider said of Zwick. “He was incredibly hard to work with.”
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