Brad Pitt's Leg Tattoos at "Bullet Train" Premiere
Who Knew Brad Pitt Was So Tatted?
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One of Pitt's most prominent tattoos is his silhouette of Ötzi the Iceman on the inside of his left forearm. Ötzi is a mummy discovered in the Ötztal Alps on the Austria–Italy border in 1991. Ötzi likely lived during the Copper Age sometime in the 33rd century BCE, and it's largely believed that he was murdered and preserved in the ice for centuries thereafter.
Beneath the figure of the mummy, Pitt has "invictus," the Latin word for undefeated or unconquerable. It is also the title of an 1875 poem by William Ernest Henley about strength and willpower. Henley wrote the poem while recovering from procedures that successfully saved his right leg after a previous amputation of his left leg due to tuberculosis.
Beside the mummy, Pitt has written, "Absurdites de l'existence." The French phrase translates to "absurdities of existence."