Brad Pitt said crew ‘fled’ after something he did on set of one of his early films

It's often easy to see celebrities as these perfect representatives of the human race who always look great or smell good or dress well, but that's far from reality.

Even Brad Pitt, a man who remains as handsome today at the age of 61 as he did nearly 40 years ago when he first broke into the acting scene, has his faults.

The Hollywood star has already opened up about his struggles with suspected prosopagnosia, a condition which makes it difficult to remember someone's face.

Back when he was just establishing himself as an adonis, he admitted to causing a scene when he was asked to eat something over and over for a scene.

It wasn't Bruce Bogtrotter's cake, but in fact just a plate of beans, and we all know what can happen if we eat too many of those. I still remember Bart Simpson teaching me the rhyme when I was young:

Beans beans good for the heart, the more you eat the more you fart. Beans beans the musical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot.

Even a bit of flatulence isn't enough to put people off Pitt (Dan Mullan/Getty Images)

And that's exactly what happened in Pitt's case, as he revealed that he suffered a fair share of flatulence early in his career, when speaking on the New Heights podcast to talk with hosts Jason and Travis Kelce about his new film and other highlights in his career.

He was playing a character that hadn't eaten in days and he went down the method acting route of just eating it as fast as he could.

But unfortunately, directors will often ask for a few different cuts which meant that he was eating a serious amount of food.

They might be tasty but they definitely have a reputation (Getty Stock)

"I just powered down this plate of beans," he said. "Take two, do the same thing. Take three, I do the same thing. Take four, I do the same thing. Something hit me. There was nothing I could do. I was stuck in this chair, nature took its course."

Pitt thought he got away with passing gas on set, but soon, the entire crew 'fled the cafe'. Perhaps they were the silent but deadly variety.

Hopefully that experience was something he was able to avoid in his latest film, F1, as passing gas in the literal hot-seat of a formula one car is unlikely to end well. Maybe this is why Max Verstappen refused to be a part of it?

And although he didn't specify exactly what film set this happened on - with some suggesting it might be 1991's Johnny Suede - we can at least be sure that it wasn't Fight Club, otherwise presumably he wouldn't be allowed to talk about it.