There’s a moment during David-vs-Goliath biopic Moneyball when Brad Pitt’s beleagured baseball general manager explains to his colleagues why he’s thinking big despite the odds against him. “Adapt or die!” he rally-calls – a sentiment this 48-year-old tabloid fodder appears to have based his career on.

That snake-hipped hottie in 1991’s Thelma And Louise had no intention of going back to Levi’s commercials and Dallas walk-ons, didn’t want to rest on his heartthrob laurels and fade into obscurity.

Pitt knew he needed to change, to throw curveballs, in order to survive the washing machine of Hollywood.