Brad Pitt, START acting your age...

He seems to like CGI de-aging and therefore is unwilling to accept his age. Still, he is in a much better position that actresses of his age.
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Stop hating on Brad Pitt lol you act like he looks like a grandpa even though he probably is. Acting is acting. If you can pull off a 25-30 male character still then why is it a problem? I'm sure he plays older characters sometimes too. You gotta milk the young roles while you can bcuz soon the old Morgan freeman roles are all he'll be able to play. He won't have a choice but to play those ones

In this case they probably should have found an actor more Cotillard's age, but he can get away with it in other roles cos he still looked young enough. But not so much in this role

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The older roles one plays, generally, the better their acting chops tend to need to be. Pitt's acting isn't 'the pits' per se, but he really only works [well] in eccentric roles (e.g., Fight Club, Snatch, 12 Monkeys, Inglorious Basterds) or where he plays naive characters (e.g., Se7en).

In Tree of Life, for example, he was poorly cast. So, although he may not be Will Smith level miscast in roles requiring gravitas, his acting archetype is ill-suited for them. Despite this, however -- and not unlike the infamous Smith -- he seems blind to his own limitations.

He was around 53 and I'm not sure what the age of the character was supposed to be - perhaps late 30s or even 40? If you find that casting unacceptable, then how about Marion Cotillard? She was 41 but I doubt that was meant to be her character's age - or she would be having her child around 43, which was really pushing the limit (with risks to the child).

Pitt was in his early fifties, but could easily pass for thirties, especially in the early 1940s, when young people had a more mature demeanor and appearance. No problem.