Brad Pitt's Sunglasses Sour a Venice Photo Call

Brad Pitt generated a minor stir at the Venice Film Festival on 3 September 2007, when he refused repeated requests to remove his sunglasses during a scheduled photo call with the press.

Wearing what observers described as a detached smile, Pitt declined each appeal from photographers and then passed the glasses to his co-star Casey Affleck, who put them on instead.

The photographers responded by walking off the shoot collectively in protest.

Italian outlets wasted little time dubbing Pitt "Bullo," a word that serves double duty in Italian as both a term for bully and a colloquial label for a swaggering tough.

The incident unfolded as both actors attended the Venice premiere of "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," which had screened the previous day.

Historical summary. TurkishPress restated this wire report, first published in September 2007, in its own words.