Brian Cox: ‘I’m straight’ but Brad Pitt is ‘so beautiful’
Vanity Fair profile, in which he discussed starring alongside Pitt, 58, in the 2004 sword-and-sandals epic “Troy.”Cox, 75, played Agamemnon, the mythical Greek King of Pitt’s Achilles, in what he described as “the only part I’ve ever pursued” in his career, and which required the actor to fly to London to meet the cast.Speaking on laying eyes on the “Fight Club” star for the first time, Cox swooned, “I remember at one point being agog at Brad. He’d never been in costumes like that …”“Brad walked on set and my jaw was down because he was so stunningly beautiful,” added the smitten Laurence Olivier award winner.In fact, like with a metalhead appreciating Beethoven, Pitt’s hotness apparently transcended Cox’s sexual orientation.“I’m straight but I thought, ‘Wow, my God! This guy is stunning,'” the “Manhunter” actor added of his bromantic feelings.