Too much makeup ruined the actor in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

Jan 14, 2009 11:02 GMT  ·  By

Despite holding all the headlines for his incredible good looks and his impressive appeal to the ladies, there still are women out there who think that he too can look ugly. One in particular even mustered the courage to tell him so during a Golden Globes after-party, when she attacked him for being “ugly as a dog” in his latest movie, and downright ridiculous with his more recent moustache.

“Brad was enjoying a cocktail and chatting with friends at the party when this woman, who was clearly drunk, approached him. She went on and on about how the aging make-up in ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ made him look ‘ugly as a dog’.” one source at the HBO after-party tells the US media. Moreover, even if the actor kept his composure and tried to explain to her that she was in the wrong, the spy says, the woman just kept on going.

And it was not just Brad’s looks in the movie that she had something bad to say about, but also about his latest look, the one he sported at the awards ceremony. “The woman finally piped down for a moment, then looked closely at Brad’s face. She then said, ‘And you should definitely shave that goatee because it looks just horrible,’ before marching off. Brad’s buddies cracked up laughing.” the same insider explains. 

In “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Brad plays a character that ages backwards, meaning he is born looking old and grown younger as the years pile up, and had to wear prosthetics on his face and plenty of makeup to fit the part. As a matter of fact, because of this, he is often unrecognizable throughout the movie, which could be one reason for which the drunken woman slammed him.

Brad Pitt was accompanied at both the Golden Globes and the exquisite after-party by life partner Angelina Jolie, who, while the above was reportedly going down, was overheard talking with actress Drew Barrymore about the latter’s desire to have children.