Nicholas Hoult has been in the business long enough that he rarely gets starstruck — unless he’s meeting Brad Pitt.
During the latest episode of Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, the Superman villain recalled meeting the F1 actor at the Venice Film Festival. Hoult said he “stuttered” while in Pitt’s presence, adding it was one of the few times he felt starstruck.
“He’s also just given, for me, so many iconic brilliant performances,” Hoult said. “I was like, oh, you had things you could have said to him, but my brain wasn’t working. I just stood there like a lemon.”
Pitt had also complimented Hoult for his performance as Catherine the Great’s husband Peter on The Great.
“He’d seen The Great and really liked it, and then was just like, ‘Hey, the show’s really funny. You’re funny,'” Hoult said. “He was pretty lovely.”
Nicholas Hoult as Peter on ‘The Great’.
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Pitt recently shared his own story about being starstruck, a feeling that is similarly rare for the A-lister. He said that he was in awe after meeting his Thelma & Louise costars Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, although he got over it pretty quickly.
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Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor in ‘Superman’.
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Hoult has his own iconic role coming up in the new Superman film. The actor plays infamous supervillain Lex Luthor in the movie, who has been portrayed by the likes of Gene Hackman, Jesse Eisenberg, and Jon Cryer.
Superman comes out in theaters on July 11. Listen to the full interview with Hoult below.