It Was Pretty Cool for Brad Pitt to Co-Star in ‘Thelma & Louise’

Brad Pitt’s two favorite words are cool and boring.

Definitely cool is his co-starring role in the Geena Davis-Susan Sarandon drama “Thelma & Louise.” The 27-year-old Pitt plays a charming but mysterious hitchhiker named J.D. whom Thelma and Louise pick up on the road.

And what was it like working with Davis, Sarandon and director Ridley Scott?

“What do you think?” he replies. “It’s pretty cool. Ridley was really cool. I was really impressed. People know him for his eye, right? But now he is getting credit for everything. He was very concerned about each scene. He would always say, ‘We got that take. Let’s do something different.’ You know, we talked in big detail about the scenes, which is really cool .

“What is really cool is to be part of something where all the elements come together.”

“Thelma & Louise” was shot on location in Los Angeles, Northern California and Utah. “It was perfect,” Pitt says. “It was like a road trip--to be outside, in the dust and in small towns. It was perfect, man.”

Born in Shawnee, Okla., and reared in Springfield, Mo., Pitt was a journalism major at the University of Missouri in Columbia. “I didn’t graduate,” he says. “I came close.”

Pitt rankles at questions about his personal life. He finds them boring and un cool . He doesn’t know why he decided to move to Los Angeles and pursue acting. “It seemed like the thing to do,” Pitt says. In between acting roles, “I did take a lot of odd jobs, really odd jobs, but this stuff is boring to talk about.”

He also finds it boring that people are comparing him in “Thelma & Louise” to the late, great James Dean. “That James Dean stuff is pretty boring,’ ‘ Pitt says with a huff. “He bores me and what he has become bores me and young actors trying to be like him bore me. It goes way beyond this film. It’s a personal thing, I guess.”