In Venice, Brad Pitt has no eyes for photographers

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2007

VENICE, Italy (AFP) — Hollywood megastar Brad Pitt angered photographers by refusing to remove his sunglasses during a photo call at the Venice film festival, earning him the sobriquet "Pitt Bullo" in the Italian press.

Pitt, wearing what was described as "an indifferent smile," rejected repeated requests by the photo corps to remove the glasses, then passed them to his co-star Casey Affleck, who put them on.

The photographers left the shoot en masse in protest.

Pitt and Affleck star in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," which premiered here on Sunday.

"Bullo" also means bully in Italian.

© 2007 AFP

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