“I was sure he was going to be a star”: 33 years ago, the director of this little-known film was right about Brad Pitt.

Today we can still discover Brad Pitt movies that we have never heard of. Yes, yes, it is possible! You know, for example, the comedy Johnny Suds, which came out after Thelma and Louise, and in which an American actor plays a young rocker with the most impressive “banana” hairstyle?

Brad Pitt as a vulnerable rocker

Released in cinemas in 1991, the feature film Johnny Suds, less known as this romantic comedy with Brad Pitt wearing glasses, sees the future Hollywood star playing a young man who dreams of becoming a famous singer.

Living in small circles, John’s favorite girl leaves him and begins to get depressed. But one day, he meets Yvonne, a young teacher of disabled children, whose character is diametrically opposed to his ex. Charmed by her patience, John moves in with her…

Johnny Sweden Marks the first production of American Tom DiCillo, formerly Jim Jarmusch’s director of photography and who a few years later had a big success in Manhattan with It turns. His film, an extraordinary comedy awarded at Locarno, is a real curiosity: how can you not be surprised when you find thirty-year-old Brad Pitt in the skin of a vulnerable rocker who has been dumped by his girlfriend?

“I was sure he was going to be a star”

Tom DiCillo remembers very well his first meeting with Brad Pitt. “Call me an idiot if you want, but I was sure of two things when I first saw him. 1: He was Johnny. 2: He was going to be a star.”says the director on its official website.

underground Johnny Sweden, in addition to Brad Pitt at the head of the bill we again meet Catherine Keener, musician Nick Cave and… Samuel L. Jackson! It’s enough to make you want even more to discover this little nugget tucked deep into the filmography of one of the Seventh Art’s most famous stars…

We were playing with Brad Pitt: The Bullet Train team sniping at each other