Brad Pitt is one of the most well-known movie stars — and busiest film producers — running today. He started out performing in the late 1980s while he commenced taking over visitor roles in a string of tv shows (through IMDb). Then, in 1991, he landed his first notable position as young drifter J.D. in Ridley Scott’s “Thelma & Louise.” From there, incredible tasks quickly followed — from 1994’s “Interview with a Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles” to 1995’s “Se7en” to 1999’s “Fight Club,” to call only a few. After all, the listing of famous movies starring Pitt best is going on and on from there. And most recently, Pitt starred in 2022’s “Bullet Train” and has also racked up a string of projects as a producer.

But, earlier than any of this achievement got here to fruition — and about 4 years earlier than his big break in “Thelma & Louise” — Pitt had a 4-episode stint on “Dallas,” the CBS prime-time soap opera that ran for 14 seasons from 1978 to 1991, in what have become his sixth-ever acting credit. Since you have likely forgotten about Pitt’s time on “Dallas” (in case you knew about it at all), here is a reminder of who the very famous actor played.

Pitt played Charlotte’s boyfriend Randy

“Dallas,” which was created through David Jacobs, follows an affluent Texas family, the Ewings — together with married couple Bobby (Patrick Duffy) and Pamela (Victoria Principal), in addition to Bobby’s older brother J.R. (Larry Hagman) — as they run their oil company, Ewing Oil. Brad Pitt performed Randy, the teen boyfriend of Charlotte Wade (Shalane McCall), who’s the daughter of Bobby’s past love Jenna (Priscilla Presley).

In one scene, Charlotte is stuck with Randy in the residence through her mother and stepdad Ray (Steve Kanaly), as she notion they were not speculated to be domestic from vacation till the subsequent day. The younger couple is even banned from seeing every different at one factor through Charlotte’s stepdad Ray after he catches them playing around in the barn, however he eventually lets up on the rule and the pair is authorized to continue dating.

Pitt appeared in 4 overall episodes, all in Season 1

Alongside “Dallas,” a few of Brad Pitt’s earliest performing gigs had been in various tv shows, such as “Another World,” “21 Jump Street” and “Growing Pains.” He even had a six-episode arc on “Glory Days” in 1990, simply one year earlier than his movie profession was kick-commenced with “Thelma & Louise.” However, the actor found out in a 2011 interview with Entertainment Weekly that after he was first getting started in his career, he wanted to avoid tv — especially sitcoms.

“When I first commenced, they had been seeking to get me into sitcoms — I suppose due to the fact I had that sort of Wonder Bread look and my hair usually went into place,” Pitt said. “I kept saying, ‘I’m not top at sitcoms. I don’t know how to do that.'” He then elaborated that he desired which will show off his skills and dive into the types of projects that he became most interested in watching himself, which had been in direct opposition to sitcoms.

The actor additionally mentioned the early moments of his profession in a 2012 interview with Backstage, for the duration of which he revealed how he knew he desired to enter the business. “I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved movie,” he explained. “My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we’d sit at the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling. I suppose it is simply an amazing thing we get to do.”