Carrie Bickmore almost caught in a lie while chatting to Brad Pitt
The Project co-host Carrie Bickmore was almost caught in an embarrassing lie while chatting to movie star Brad Pitt about his latest film.
Bickmore flew to Tokyo to interview about his new film, Ad Astra, which is in cinemas this Thursday.
Once the cameras stopped rolling after the interview, the pair were chatting about Aussie actress Margot Robbie.
“As I was leaving he said, ‘Oh, do you know Margot Robbie?’ who he was in Once Upon a Time with,” Bickmore said on her Hit Network radio show Carrie and Tommy.
“We were chatting and we were talking about movies and he said all the amazing stuff she is doing … she’s producing and directing a lot of stuff.
“He (Pitt) mentioned she’s doing something with Joel Edgerton and I said, ‘Oh my gosh, have you seen his new movie?’
“In my brain I was thinking of the movie Boy Erased which isn’t new … it was out like a year ago. But I couldn’t remember the name of the movie. And then he says, ‘Kings?’”
It was at this point in the conversation that Bickmore had two choices: Either let Pitt know that she was lying and had the wrong film or play along and pretend she knew what film he was talking about.
Naturally, she went with the second option.
“He said, ‘Oh, have you seen that?’ I was like, ‘Yes!’ And he said, ‘We made that’. I was like, ‘Oh god’,” Bickmore said.
Pitt was likely to be confused by the encounter, as The King is a Netflix movie that’s not meant to be released until November 1.
It gets even more awkward once Pitt asks a follow up question.
“Then he said, ‘How have you (seen it?)’” Bickmore said. “I’m thinking, ‘Oh god, I don’t even know if it’s out yet’. He’s thinking, ‘How has she got an advanced copy?’”
Bickmore’s co-host, Tommy Little joked, “He’s probably gone out and fired a whole bunch of people because he’s like, ‘The King has been pirated, people have already seen it in Australia’.”
Luckily for Bickmore, she was saved by a fellow publicist and was told to leave the room. It was after she left that she reflected on her lie to Pitt.
“I really shouldn’t have lied to Brad Pitt … but I just wanted the conversation to continue,” The Project host said.