Oct 14, 2026 · 41 min · 18 segments
Long before his brief appearance in Deadpool 2, actor Brad Pitt was heavily pursued by director Matthew Vaughn to play the role of Big Daddy in the hard R-rated comic book adaptation Kick-Ass…
How so?
Well, we're talking about an actor who has had the absolute pick of the litter for his entire career.
He's had immense cachet.
Oh, astronomical cachet.
For 25 years he could have walked into any studio lot, pointed at a comic book property, and they would have handed him a blank check.
A completely blank check.
Yeah.
Yet he has intentionally avoided the single most lucrative genre in the history of the medium.
Which is wild because if you look at his actual onscreen contribution to the massive superhero movie boom, it's, uh, it's incredibly sparse.
I mean, sparse is almost generous.
Yeah.
True.
His sole onscreen appearance in a live action superhero film is exactly what that Slashfilm piece describes it as, an amusing blip of a cameo.
Right.
Exactly, and he is onscreen for exactly one second.
Literally one second.
He gets electrocuted on a parachute cable, you see his face for a split second, and he's just gone.
Just a quick gag.
Right.
Yeah, but even then he's playing a supporting character, and the entire role is designed to be a satirical goof on the Superman archetype.
Which I think tells you a lot about his psychology as a performer.
How so?
Well, we're talking about an actor who has had the absolute pick of the litter for his entire career.
He's had immense cachet.
Oh, astronomical cachet.
For 25 years he could have walked into any studio lot, pointed at a comic book property, and they would have handed him a blank check.
A completely blank check.
Yeah.
Yet he has intentionally avoided the single most lucrative genre in the history of the medium.
Which is wild because if you look at his actual onscreen contribution to the massive superhero movie boom, it's, uh, it's incredibly sparse.
I mean, sparse is almost generous.
Yeah.
True.
His sole onscreen appearance in a live action superhero film is exactly what that Slashfilm piece describes it as, an amusing blip of a cameo.
Right.
Exactly, and he is onscreen for exactly one second.
Literally one second.
He gets electrocuted on a parachute cable, you see his face for a split second, and he's just gone.
Just a quick gag.
Right.
Yeah, but even then he's playing a supporting character, and the entire role is designed to be a satirical goof on the Superman archetype.
Which I think tells you a lot about his psychology as a performer.
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