When Brian Cox was left spellbound by Brad Pitt’s magnificence throughout Troy: ‘My God, this man is gorgeous!’

The film was primarily based on the Trojan War between Troy and the Greeks and took materials from Homer’s Iliad and Quintus Smyrnaeus’s Posthomerica. Cox performed the function of king of Greeks Agamemnon, whereas Pitt essayed Achilles, the best of the Greek warriors.

In the movie, Agamemnon, utilizing the pretext of insult given to his brother Menelaus by the Trojan prince Paris (Menelaus’ spouse Helen had eloped with Paris), invades the city-state of Troy with the biggest Greek military ever assembled at his again. Achilles, hungry for glory, tags alongside regardless of his dislike for Agamemnon.

Apart from Cox and Pitt, the movie was in any other case too stacked with massive names like Peter O’Toole, Sean Bean, Brendan Gleeson, Rose Byrne, Eric Bana, Diane Kruger, and Orlando Bloom.

Cox spoke about Pitt and the film whereas doing a video retrospective about his profession for Vanity Fair. He stated, “I remember at one point,” he stated, “just kind of being agog at Brad ’cause, you know, he’d never been in costumes like that. We had all experienced these great costume epics because we’d spent most of our time like that, if we’d done the classical theater; we were always without pants! Brad walked on and my jaw was down because he was so stunningly beautiful.”

He added, “I imply, I’m straight, however I simply thought, ‘Wow! My God, this man is gorgeous!’ What probability does one have sharing the display with this stunning, stunning man?”

While Troy was an enormous industrial success (virtually $500 million on a lower than $190 million funds), the movie didn’t impress critics, and holds solely a 54 per cent ranking on Rotten Tomatoes.