Brad Pitt Lands Cover of Sports Illustrated to Promote ‘Moneyball’

This weekend, one of the most anticipated movies of the fall will arrive in theaters, Brad Pitt’s “Moneyball,” which the actor describes as a typical underdog story. He is now promoting it in the latest issue of Sports Illustrated.

In doing so, he joins a rather small group of celebrities unrelated to the sports world to ever grace the cover of the prestigious sports magazine.

Brad is the first to say something about this, pointing out how it’s odd he landed the cover for doing a baseball movie when he doesn’t even know that much about baseball in the first place.

“It’s shameful how little I know about baseball… I’m amazed they let me do this movie… Baseball and I didn’t get along that well. I wrestled one year [in high school]. I dove one year. Everything but baseball,” he says.

However, he jumped at the chance at doing Sports Illustrated because it meant doing something different for a change.

“I was just happy to do Sports Illustrated. To do something other than the fashion-y things, for something I respect, is much more fun,” Brad explains.

Speaking of “Moneyball,” which also stars Jonah Hill and is already getting a lot of buzz online (and even some Oscar talk for Pitt), Brad reveals he’s flattered by comparisons to some of his favorite films, like “The French Connection,” “All the President’s Men” or “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” especially since he believes them to be just.

“Moneyball” doesn’t follow the pattern all other Hollywood productions stick to and this makes it more relatable, more true to life, the actor promises.

In the majority of movies, characters have an epiphany moment towards the end, emerging completely different persons after the experience.

In real life, this hardly ever happens, Brad says, which is precisely what “Moneyball” sets out to illustrate.

“What we were trying to do is tell an unconventional story in the Trojan horse of a conventional baseball movie,” Pitt adds.