Brad Pitt Had a Meltdown on Set of Interview with the Vampire: 'Life's Too Short'

Interview with the Vampire was an important step in Brad Pitt's rise to Hollywood domination and one of the most famous movies in the actor's entire career.

After immediately becoming a new classic of the vampire movies genre, this film is forever associated with Pitt — and his charming Louis de Ponite du Lac, of course.

But while the movie itself is globally popular and Brad Pitt is still largely praised for his performance in it, few people know that filming it was a nightmare for the actor: so much, in fact, that he struggled with depression while working on Interview.

The dark and grim lifestyle Pitt had to adopt for the movie was painful for him.

"[Pinewood Studios, the filming location in London] hasn't been rehabbed in decades. You leave for work in the dark — you go into this cauldron, this mausoleum — and then you come out and it's dark. I'm telling you, one day it broke me. It was like, 'Life's too short for this quality of life,'" shared the actor.

Dealing with depression while living in darkness was one hell of an experience for Brad Pitt, and he still remembers those days (or, rather, nights) with little nostalgia.

To add to the list of his woes, Pitt also had a rough time working with another Hollywood A-lister, Tom Cruise, who also starred in Interview with the Vampire.

"You gotta understand, Tom and I… We walk in different directions. He's the North Pole. I'm South. I always thought there was this underlying competition that got in the way of any real conversation. It wasn't nasty by any means, not at all," explained Pitt.

Regardless of these hardships, the actor pulled through.

We might never learn whether it was thanks to his sheer iron will or the $40M motivation but still, Brad Pitt managed to overcome both depression and his micro-conflicts with Cruise — which resulted in the creation of the new classic vampire movie loved by millions.

Source: Independent UK