Facts About Brad Pitt's Fury That Got Left In The Tank

While making a film about the unforgiving horrors of war, David Ayer was adamant that the cast needed a challenging shared experience to bond them. As well as putting them through boot camp and making them live in a tank, Ayer insisted they do a little fighting to get them in the spirit. As he told IndieWire, "Five minutes of fighting is going to teach you more about a person than five weeks of conversation." Jon Bernthal told GQ that Pitt kicked him in a sensitive spot on three occasions, before he returned the favor with a huge hit to Pitt's guts. Obviously, in such a pressurized environment, tension is going to build and fists are going to fly. Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, and Scott Eastwood found this out the hard way.

Eastwood, who plays a minor part in "Fury," explained that he got into a heated argument with LaBeouf after spitting tobacco onto the tank. "I pretty much told him to f*** off, and Brad had to break it up," he explained. Pitt has a different recollection, and explained that after Eastwood spat on their tank, hackles were raised. Pitt demanded that Eastwood clean it up. When LaBeouf stepped in to back Pitt up, things escalated in a big way. Egos were bruised, but thankfully, no faces. Later on, Pitt and LaBeouf realized that Eastwood's spitting had all been in the script. "So we were the knobs in the end," explained Pitt.