Brad Pitt & Ed Norton Got Super High For DISASTROUS Fight Club Premiere

Don't take drugs and go to the drive-through, kids. Because watching movies stoned can SERIOUSLY change your experience of them. Just ask Brad Pitt.

In the run-up to the release of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Pitt sat down with Marc Maron - Leonardo DiCaprio in tow too - to talk about their careers and working with Quentin Tarantino. The conversation turned to premieres, and Pitt revealed that the debut of Se7en had been a strange one because when the lights came on, everyone simply got up silently and left, almost as if traumatised. Pitt and Fincher were confused by what they saw as an odd reaction to something they thought was great.

And then Pitt returned to one of his favourite subjects: the disastrous Venice Film Festival premiere of Fight Club. He told Maron that he and Ed Norton had decided to smoke a joint before heading into the midnight screening and it hadn't gone well at all. As Pitt recounts, the first few jokes landed to the sound of crickets as the pitch black humour in Fincher's film simply didn't translate with the audience. And it just kept going on the same as the audience sat in stony silence.

Unfortunately, the longer it went on, the more Pitt and Norton found it hilarious in their stoned states, so they sat giggling uproariously in the prestigious balcony next to the festival organiser, who had been sitting there squirming.

Pitt says the breaking point for the festival organiser came when Helena Bonham Carter dropped one of the most notorious lines in the movie. He's recounted the same tale in Brian Raftery’s book Best. Movie. Year. Ever.

It gets to one of Helena’s scandalous lines—‘I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school!’—and literally the guy running the festival got up and left. Edward and I were still the only ones laughing. You could hear two idiots up in the balcony cackling through the whole thing.

Hell, at least they had a good time...