In 1997 year, Pitt starred alongside Harrison Ford since the IRA terrorist Rory Devany in The Devil’s Own, the 1st of several films where Pitt used an Irish accent in his performance. which identical year he played the main role of Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer in the Jean Jacques Annaud film 7 Years in Tibet. Pitt trained for months for the role, that demanded a admirable deal of trekking and mountain climbing, during rock climbing in California and the Alps with his co-star, David Thewlis. deserved to the themes of Tibetan nationalism in the film, the Chinese government banned Pitt and Thewlis from entering China for life.
In 1998 year, Pitt starred since the main character in the film join Joe Black, where he played a personification of mortality inhabiting the body of a young man in order to understand what it is love to be human. The film gave Pitt other chance to work alongside Welsh actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, with whom he had before worked on Legends of the Fall. In 1999 year, Pitt starred in Fight Club, an adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel. Directed during Se7en’s David Fincher, Pitt portrayed the greatly complicated and colorful character of Tyler Durden.
In 2000 year, Pitt played the role of Mickey, an Irish Gypsy boxer in the gangster movie Snatch, alongside Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones and Benicio del Toro. The film was a wild caper involving a diamond heist, the Russian and American mafia and the shady underground planet, which saw Pitt brought in since a ringer during 2 failing promoters. The movie saw him moving on from the north Irish accent he attempted in The Devil’s Own; Pitt created a only-barely-intelligible accent suggesting the Irish Gypsies, referred to since Pikeys in the movie. Pitt continued to train for the role, and honed his boxing skills at Ricky English’s gym in Watford.
In 2000 year, Pitt filmed the Cold War thriller Spy Game in that he starred alongside veteran actor Robert Redford, who played the role of his mentor. In 2001 year, Pitt worked with long-time buddy Julia Roberts in the comical way movie The Mexican. At the final of the year, Pitt finished filming sea’s Eleven with George Clooney and Matt Damon, a remake of the 1960s version that starred Frank Sinatra.
as then, he has starred in numerous films, including sea’s Twelve and the epic Troy, based on the Iliad, in that he portrayed the legendary hero Achilles. through film production of Troy, Pitt injured his Achilles tendon, delaying production for several weeks. In 2005 year, Pitt starred in Mr. & Mrs. Smith, in that he and Angelina Jolie played husband and wife assassins.