--- title: Amy Adams Rejected A Hug From Brad Pitt For A Noble Reason description: “I became the first woman in history to reject a hug from Brad Pitt,” Amy Adams told Jimmy Kimmel canonical: https://time.com/5478745/amy-adams-brad-pitt/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-12-14T15:05:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:24.639Z og:title: Amy Adams Rejected a Hug From Brad Pitt For a Legit Reason og:description: “I became the first woman in history to reject a hug from Brad Pitt,” Adams said og:url: https://time.com/5478745/amy-adams-brad-pitt/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbcdb07e226d3010e/6989417e656a3f1ce8bd63d9/amy-adams-brad-pitt.png?branch=production&width=836&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 836 og:image:height: 470 og:image:alt: amy-adams-brad-pitt og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Amy Adams Rejected a Hug From Brad Pitt For a Legit Reason twitter:description: “I became the first woman in history to reject a hug from Brad Pitt,” Adams said twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbcdb07e226d3010e/6989417e656a3f1ce8bd63d9/amy-adams-brad-pitt.png?branch=production&width=836&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Amy Adams Became the First Woman to Reject a Brad Pitt Hug for a Legitimate Reason > Sponsored content. 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The actress regaled [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/5217539/jimmy-kimmel/) with the thrilling tale of rejection on Thursday night’s episode of _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_. While Adams was ostensibly on the show to discuss her role in the new film _Vice_, where she plays former Second Lady Lynne Cheney in her new movie _Vice_ opposite a [transformed](http://time.com/5413956/christian-bale-dick-cheney/) Christian Bale as [Dick Cheney](http://time.com/5472305/george-herbert-walker-bush-1924-2018/) (“He’s more Dick Cheney than Dick Cheney!” Adams said), it was her story about giving Brad Pitt a hard pass that stole the show. Pitt’s production company Plan B was a producer on _Vice_, along with Adam McKay, the film’s writer and director, and his Gary Sanchez Productions partners Will Ferrell and Kevin Messick. [Kimmel](http://time.com/5340832/jimmy-kimmel-grover-trump/) wanted to know if he did any actual producing on the film and Adams assured him that Pitt did. “He came to the set one day,” she explained, noting that before she knew the actor turned producer was set, all the women had put on lip gloss and were “skipping”. All the women, save for Adams, of course. Pitt’s visit coincided with a day that she was playing an older Lynne Cheney, complete with “70-year old Lynne makeup” and a suit that made her look “quite a bit heavier.” To top it all off, Adams had just been diagnosed with pink eye. That’s when she found out Pitt was on set. “I have seen him before, but every time you’re thinking it’s going to be like _A River Runs Through It_,” she told Kimmel. “You imagine yourself looking really pretty in, like, a white nightgown. But that wasn’t the case. I was in my fat suit with pink eye.” When he came to say hello to the star, he went in for a hug—but due to the pink eye diagnosis Adams couldn’t let that happen and stopped Pitt from giving her an embrace. 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