A closer look
Brad Pitt and Edward Norton spent considerable time actually learning how to manufacture boutique artisanal soap in order to accurately prepare for their deeply cynical roles as anarchists in David Fincher's classic film Fight Club. These two highly paid Hollywood A-listers genuinely stood over boiling pots of lye and rendered animal fat, acquiring a specialized artisanal skill just so they could convincingly pretend to blow up credit card company buildings. It perfectly encapsulates the absurd irony of the film that a multi-million dollar studio production about destroying corporate consumerism forced its leading men to master the kind of hipster craft project you typically buy for twenty dollars at a local farmer's market
