The Oscar winner had fallen ill, so his cast was charged with plugging his movie without him.

“Tragically,” lamentsBrad Pitt, who plays veteran movie star Jack Conrad in the film.

But you’re not going to get any of that because he’s not here."

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A film crew attempting to get the perfect shot in ‘Babylon’.Scott Garfield/Paramount

When he is here, we all give him s—."

Or maybe it was all part of the mastermind’s devious plan.

“I sent him an email.

“And, he said, ‘A-ha.

It was my Machiavellian way of wanting to get more [compliments].'”

But above all, the cast couldn’t stop talking about what the experience of makingBabylonmeant to them.

Robbie noted one scene as especially memorable, even though she doesn’t appear in it.

And I described all of it.

And, on a scale that we’ll never witness again.”

Pitt, whose character is a critical part of that scene, agreed.

And, when you hit those moments, it’s just a high."

“It’s that idea of playing with the ghosts and the angels,” he said.

I love that idea."