Brad Pitt banned from China for almost 20 years!

news culture Brad Pitt banned from China for almost 20 years!

September to Tibet

In 1997, director Jean-Jacques Annaud chose Brad Pitt to play the hero of his next film, 7 Years in Tibet, based on the novel Seven Years in Tibet. We follow the true story of Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, who is sent by Germany to climb a peak in the Himalayas during World War II.

. He was captured by the British, who were then settled in the region, but managed to escape. It was then that he met the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso and became his friend. Only this film also portrays the Sino-Tibetan conflict and addresses the way in which the Chinese government appropriated the territory it continues to claim. Tibet has been an autonomous region of China since 1965. However, it is uncomfortable to imply that there has been a brutal takeover. When Heinrich Harrer’s book describes the Chinese army as disciplined, the director chooses to portray them as much more violent, even contemptuous.

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Brad Pitt targeted by the government

as a headliner, Brad Pitt suffered the same bans as the director and both were banned for nearly 20 years, although the reasons have always remained unclear. During production, Jean-Jacques Annaud faced diplomatic pressure and had to make do with the means at his disposal to tell his story. Banned from filming in the Middle Kingdom, he built his sets in Argentina to avoid going to the Himalayan Valley, more precisely to Uspallata, then to Mendoza and finally to Buenos Aires. For the mountaineering scenes, the team went to Canada. A few years later he managed a new project in Inner Mongolia, The Last Wolf, with Chinese actors. Regarding Brad Pitt, China was not very vigilant either, because in 2014 the actor was still able to go to Shanghai to accompany his wife Angelina Jolie. This one was in full commercial for the movie Maleficent. In 2016 he was even able to promote the film Allied directly on the Chinese red carpet.

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