Brad Pitt left a studio executive angry over one scene in Fight Club

It is worth remembering that David Fincher’s film “Fight Club” in 1999 It was a commercial bomb upon its initial release. It grossed about $101 million at the global box office, but this was not enough to cover its $65 million budget and other expenses. It wasn’t until Fincher’s film was released on home media that it found a larger following. “Fight Club” has since been closely studied in film schools and is now seen as a provocative and important essay on the modern state of masculinity, as presented through a stylized montage on MTV. The film’s iconic character, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), is itself a satire of men’s supposed desires, requiring violence and class revolution in order to feel anything (and hope for the day when the world ends and men can become hunters and gatherers in a post-apocalyptic landscape).

For those unfamiliar, “Fight Club” itself, based on the novel of the same name by Chuck Pahalniuk, revolves around an anonymous office worker (Edward Norton) who suffers from insomnia and finds catharsis only in dystopian self-help groups. That changes when he meets Tyler, a mysterious stranger, on a plane, and the two have a powerful bonding experience when they later try to punch each other in a bar parking lot. They soon discover that large groups of dissatisfied office workers want to participate in their fights, and they form the Fight Club as a way to awaken their weakened sense of masculinity. However, over time, Tyler slowly turns into a legitimate cult leader, as his lieutenants become bomb-making revolutionaries.

When Fincher was interviewed by Playboy magazine In 2014, he was asked about the cool and idiosyncrasies of “Fight Club,” along with his experiences working with Norton and Pitt. It is worth noting that Fincher recalls a scene where Pitt, as Tyler, was asked to answer the door completely naked, It’s something the executives behind “Fight Club” have encouraged.. (House of a handsome man). But Pitt angered the studios when he decided to have Tyler naked…except for a pair of yellow kitchen gloves.

In “Fight Club”, Tyler begins having an affair with one of the characters Her name is Marla (Helena Bonham Carter).someone Norton’s narrator meets at self-help meetings. At one point, Marla calls the narrator after suffering a chemical overdose, but it is Tyler who comes to her rescue. Afterwards, they regularly begin having passionate, athletic sex that keeps the narrator awake at night. At one point, the narrator knocks on their bedroom door, hoping to calm them down, and Tyler answers wearing a pair of rubber laundry gloves. There is no full frontal nudity in the scene, but the frame drops low enough for the audience to see that Pitt is not wearing anything below the waist.

As previously mentioned, 20th Century Fox approved a nude scene. But when, during filming, Pitt decided to add gloves, it ruined the appeal the studio had hoped for. As Fincher said:

“When we shot Fight Club, the studio said, ‘This is great; “It’s going to be great,” because we were going to have a scene with Brad opening the door naked. And when it came time to shoot, as Brad, he said, “I have to open the door and put on a big yellow dishwasher glove.” I said, “Perfection.” When the studio director saw that, she said, “I caught him shirtless, and then I ruined the whole thing.” I was like, “Get that line out of ‘Animal.’ “House”: “Hey, you made a mistake – you trusted us.”

The scene remains in the film and is memorable after the gloves were included. What sexual maneuvers require the use of scrub gloves? You will have to let your imagination wander. Fincher noted that the only reason he was able to escape this scene was because of Pitt’s fame. If it had been any other star the gloves would have been off. But people would have liked it less. No glove, no love.