Showing posts with label David Yurman. Show all posts
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Monday, July 18, 2022

July 18, Monday

Bullet Train Paris "special screening" -- not a premiere.



"It didn't mean I'm dying or anything.  It just meant I look at like life as: a child to young adult, young adult to middle age, now I'm past that middle age -- so that's what I'm calling the last leg.  I just want to live it with more intentions."



Pitt told AFP: "I'm not getting out by any means.

"It seems that might have been taken as a statement of retirement. That's not what I was saying," he said.

"I'm over that hump of middle age and so I'm looking at that last leg... how do I want to spend that time? At my age, you've made enough mistakes... now there's a comfort in applying that kind of wisdom."

"Bullet Train", which is being released around the world over the next two weeks, sees Pitt trying something new in an action comedy from the director of "John Wick", David Leitch.

Pitt plays a reluctant hit-man fighting off rivals on a Japanese train.

"It's much more fun than the regular punch-up. It's infused with humour and character," he said.

"I can't say enough about Jackie Chan and what he's done, and to be in that arena, even close to that, is something I hadn't done before."

"I really like what we've been able to do on the producing end. You get to be part of stories, foster new talent," he said.

Unlike other major movie stars such as Tom Cruise, Pitt is not as wedded to the nostalgia of movie theatres.

"I like the dichotomy, the streamer as well as the theatre experience, because films were getting so expensive to do and to market that it was either big tent-pole movies or very small intimate movies and there was no room for anythings in-between. Streamers have opened it up for more voices," he said.

Nonetheless, Pitt said he had recently loved going to watch "Elvis" in a cinema.

"I'm a big fan of Austin Butler, I think he's going to do great work," said Pitt of the film's star.

"It was so much fun to be there again. There's a place for both."



I'm so sorry I said that.  Like people are think I'm dying tomorrow.  I was just saying I'm past middle age so what's our next leg." 



He's not retiring yet but he's not denying that he's close to it.  He did not say it was "a long way off."  He mentions he wants to spend "that last leg" applying wisdom from past mistakes.  His biggest mistakes have involved the family so "more intentions" in large part is continuing to make up for those mistakes and showing them the new improved version of himself. 

The plane incident and everything that contributed to it including alcoholism and (lack of) anger management is undoubtedly the biggest mistake but there was also his decision to recruit Harvey Weinstein as a producer over Angelina's objections.  Inglourious Basterds was distributed by the Weinsteins but Brad did not having anything to do with their involvement.  Killing Them Softly was a Plan B production, Brad was one of the producers, and Harvey Weinstein was involved because Brad recruited him.  The film was distributed by The Weinstein Co. which led Angelina to avoid having anything to do with its promotion.  The issue is not being in the same room with Weinstein who would have been hard to avoid during his long reign at the top, it was why they would be in the same room -- because her partner put the film's interests ahead of all other consideration and ignored her feelings and objections.  This matter has resurfaced with the new Plan B film She Said on the NYTimes exposé that launched #MeToo.  There was no attempt by any of Brad's reps to explain or spin his actions and one admitted to a writer that there was no excuse for it.  That is Brad's position.  It will probably be part of his mea culpa -- one of his decisions he is not proud of.  As Brad said in Ad Astra using his character as his alter ego: "I'm selfish.  I've let so many people down.  I'm just a selfish person."

Interview with Anthony Hopkins
I’m realizing, as a real act of forgiveness for myself for all the choices that I’ve made that I’m not proud of, that I value those missteps, because they led to some wisdom, which led to something else. You can’t have one without the other.
Improving his relationship with the children will be a lifelong endeavor but as they go off to college and live away from home, it's mainly Angelina who the new, selfless Brad will be giving "more intentions" to as they "grow old together" in Château Miraval.





The video gives the best look at both signet rings in the same frame and the clearest view of the bee ring from the Paris red carpet.  They're almost identical in size and shape.












Watched over by Tony Webb.  Webb is Angelina's long-time security who has been the head of security at Miraval from the time they moved in.




David Yurman mark visible.







Avoiding putting his arm around Joey King
(From L to R) US actor Brad Pitt, US actresses Joey King, British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson, US actor Brian Tyree Henry, US Director David Leitch and US Executive producer Kelly McCormick pose for a photo during a preview of the film (Bullet Train) in Paris on July 18, 2022. - (Photo by CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP via Getty Images)





















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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Breitling Summit
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 24: Brad Pitt attends the squad dinner the Breitling Summit on September 24, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Breitling)


He replaced the bike chain bracelet with what looks like David Yurman's Deco Leather ID bracelet.  He appeared to be wearing the same bracelet during OUATIH's L.A. premiere. It was one of the bracelets visible outside his sleeve that Sat Hari claimed was her love bangle, the other was Yurman's woven red nylon with black onyx and 8 beads which she claimed was her elephant bracelet.  Some of her pieces were featured in the tabloids and given her attempts to claim bracelets that were manifestly not hers, even though her 15 minutes of fame was cut short, it could still be potentially lucrative.  She was previously known for hanging out with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and injecting them with ozone.

Yurman's gold skull, gold chain, red tiger's eye, black onyx are also discernible.


LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 24: Brad Pitt participates in the roundtable discussion during the Breitling Summit on September 24, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Breitling)


New Breitling watch, bee ring, gold skulls, beads, gold chain, an ID bracelet, but no bike chain.  He was still wearing the bike bracelet -- which Sat Hari also claimed was hers -- along with the other bracelets from David Yurman during the press con for Ad Astra on Sept. 18.   The premiere took place later the same day and it was the paps outside the after-party that tried to link Hari to Brad.  In general, they don't like to respond to tabloid reports so it's hard to say that he replaced the bike chain because of the tabs, but it is of course a possibility.  He reacted when Christiane Amanpour asked, "What about women?" after he spoke about his Dad and being a dad (4:44) in their interview.  Although her question turned out to be about the women in the film, he was wary of the topic and had his antennae up.









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Monday, September 16, 2019


For his WaPo NASA event today he was a veritable walking David Yurman catalogue:

8 bracelets: 
Woven red nylon with black onyx
DY Fortune Heirloom link in 18K
Red tiger's eye
Black onyx
bike chain
Shipwreck Chain
Spiritual Beads Skull in 18K 
Faceted Beads in Labradorite

The Petrvs Bee Signet ring -- which together with the thin gold chain necklace were the only pieces of jewelry he did not take off for the GQ photo shoot. 

Four gold necklaces.  The thin gold chain was identified in GQ as being from Tiffany and remained tucked under his shirt in all his photos.  The rest of the chains may be from Tiffany and/or Yurman.


From late 2016 until June 2018 he did not wear any jewelry.
On May 30, 2018, Judge Ouderkirk signed the Order with the Summer Schedule running from June til August designed to force the children to open up to Brad.
He started wearing a gold necklace after the start of the Summer effort in June, 2018.
He started wearing a bike chain bracelet sporadically starting in October, 2018 while filming OUATIH.
The Judgement on Custody and Visitation was filed in November, 2018.
He started wearing a 2nd gold necklace in December, 2018.
The Judgement on status was filed in April, 2019.
Angelina arrived in Paris on July 7, 2019 and it was announced at a press con for Mon Guerlain Intense that she and Guerlain were working on a bee conservation program in Cambodia. This was also the 1st time she wore a ring on her left hand.
Brad was first seen wearing a large silver Petrvs signet bee ring during OUATIH press promo that started July 11, 2019.
During OUATIH's L.A. premiere on July 22,  he was seen wearing a gold Petrvs signet bee ring, 3 necklaces with the addition of Yurman's Skull Station Necklace in Labradorite, and at least 3 bracelets --  woven red nylon with black onyx and 8 beads, small fluted chain bracelet, and another chain.
From his appearance in Mexico on August 12 onward he has worn the same gold Petrvs signet bee ring on his right ring finger.  It was also the first time he was seen wearing 6 bracelets which included the red nylon and the bike chain bracelet which he had not worn for several months.
From mid til late August, 2019 he was seen with the same 6 bracelets, 3 necklaces and bee ring
When he appeared in Venice for Ad Astra on August 29, he had 4 necklaces having added a 3rd gold chain.  He was still wearing the same 6 bracelets.
Some time before he left for Tokyo on Sept. 11, 2019 he started wearing 7 bracelets with the addition of the woven army green nylon with black onyx and 8 gold beads.
On Sept. 16, 2019 he was wearing 8 bracelets -- he replaced the green nylon with 2 new: the Shipwreck Chain and the Black onyx beads.  Four gold chains -- replacing the Skull Station Necklace in Labradorite with another gold chain.  And the same gold Petrvs signet bee ring.

Judging by his jewelry, he made a lot of progress by July, 2019 and made more progress in September.

At the conclusion of his conversation with @AstroHague at the ISS Brad said, "Thank you very much.  I can't wait to brag to my kids."










And 4 necklaces.








Brad Pitt has a great laugh: a sort of staccato, slow-rolling ah-huh-huh-huh that makes you think of surfers and cowboys and movie stars. He uses it more than once to excellent effect as Cliff Booth, the laconic stuntman-cum-sidekick who stumbles into the dark heart of the Manson family in Quentin Tarantino’s showbiz Babylon Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood and not at all in the lonely-astronaut epic Ad Astra (out Sept. 20), though it often punctuates his conversation with EW about both those roles.

To say that one of the world’s most beloved and best-known celebrities is having a moment 30-plus years into his career feels, at this point, pretty much indisputable. But don’t call it a comeback, or a Brad-aissance; several times over the course of a friendly, sometimes philosophical interview he’ll insist that his only goal is “putting stories out into the world” — which in 2019 means not just starring in a pair of films that may well end up dominating the coming awards season but also continuing to head up Plan B Entertainment, the boutique production company responsible for a vanguard slate of films, including Vice, Moonlight, Beautiful Boy, and 12 Years a Slave.

That laugh comes tumbling out again when he’s asked to find the thread between Hollywood’s Cliff, a sort of beach-boy Lebowski with a singular gift for sudden violence, and Ad Astra’s Maj. Roy McBride, an almost pathologically contained spaceman on a solo mission to Mars. “Well, Cliff is by far a much easier way to live, and certainly I would say what we’re all striving for,” he says, chuckling. “But to get to Cliff’s peace of mind and acceptance in the day, you’d probably have to go through Roy’s dilemma to get there.”

Pitt quickly grows more serious, though, on the subject of Roy’s arc in Astra — an emotional journey that often finds the major struggling to maintain his NASA-trained composure even as the fate of both his family and the free world (and, the movie heavily implies, his soul, too) hangs in the balance. “Toxic masculinity, that may be a little harsh as a term? But certainly we’re questioning what is masculinity,” he muses. “Having grown up in an era where we are taught to be stoic, taught to be capable, not to show weakness, never be disrespected — that works for the pioneer spirit, I guess, on the plain when you’re trying to make your claim. But it’s also very limiting, because it doesn’t embrace the whole human being.”

And while he admits to having no special affinity for space movies (“Um no, not specifically. I mean, when I was a kid my dad took me to see Alien, and that’s still everything”), Astra did get him pondering the mysteries of the universe, as it were: “In all our concepts and constructs of how we understand life to work, there are powers there that we cannot even begin to understand,” he marvels. “Powers that can bend time, and gravitational forces that could crush a planet. And just that we ourselves are made from dying stars — I find that really awe-inspiring, just because of how much we don’t know and yet how connected we are to it.”

Astra director James Gray (The Lost City of Z), who has known Pitt for more than two decades, tells EW that though he didn’t pen the script for his longtime friend — “I never actually write projects with actors in mind, because you’re always disappointed when they don’t do it” — he did end up getting exactly the performance he hoped for: “In some ways, because he’s a star, Brad’s acting is underrated. To control a performance and still convey the ideas and the emotions necessary for the film I think is as difficult as anything, really. To be kind of showy — and by the way I’m not saying this about him in Quentin’s movie, which I think is wonderful — but sometimes a showy performance can lead us in a very obvious series of choices. But he understood it completely, this character who lives so much in his own head.”

Heady isolation isn’t so much an option in Pitt’s other day job as the cofounder and CEO of Plan B, which often involves developing and championing the kinds of films that fall far outside his own lived experience. “It’s certainly not by design,” he says of the company’s particular track record with black auteurs like Ava DuVernay and Steve McQueen. “Myself and my partners Jeremy [Kleiner] and Dede [Gardner] have an extreme belief in equality and this want for justice in an unjust world, and I think we naturally are kind of guided that way. We were trying to get Selma made for years, and it wasn’t until 12 Years did what it did that it suddenly opened the door for all of these others.”

“Certainly when we started,” he goes on, “it was at a time when we saw that the studios just weren’t taking that kind of gamble on more complex mid-range budgeted films. “[And] I’m really proud of what we’ve been able to contribute to the zeitgeist…. But you know for every one that gets made, there’s another 10, so it takes a fight for all of them. And I can’t tell you how many talented, talented people there are still struggling to to be able to tell their story, the one that moved them. That’s where we were able to apply our muscle in a way that I never even expected when we started.”

In fact since its 2001 founding, the company has already racked up three Best Picture wins (for The Departed, 12 Years a Slave, and Moonlight). But the thrice-nominated actor promises he’s not interested in gunning for personal gold, despite the growing buzz on Astra and Hollywood. “Oh, man. I’m gonna abstain,” he says of campaigning for either role (though his generous recent press schedule may belie that). “I mean, you never know, and it’s really nice when your number comes up. But the goal is for the film to land, to speak to someone whether it’s now or a decade from now. I find chasing it actually a disservice to the purity of your telling a story, and a shackling thing to focus on.”

He’s less circumspect when it comes to another, less expected career avenue: the world of prestige television, where A-list peers like Nicole Kidman and Matthew McConaughey have already blazed a trail. “Could I see it? Absolutely,” he says. “What I love about TV is that you get to spend more time with the characters. You have to let go of so many scenes in order to fit into the ‘film’ container, as far as running time and how it plays, and with a series, being able to break it up, you can expand so much more. I’m especially drawn to the comedies that are able to do that. That might just be romantic of me, I may have to go with the times, so we’ll see. We’ll see where it all lands, but that’s certainly of interest.”

In the meantime there’s more than enough to keep him occupied, between promoting his current projects and tending to a production slate that this year already includes Astra and the Sundance sensation The Last Black Man in San Francisco (which EW named the best film of 2019 so far this past June), as well as the upcoming Timothée Chalamet drama The King and Moonlight director Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad series for Amazon. So does that mean there could be some truth to a recent viral magazine quote that implied he’d soon be done with big-screen acting?
“I was just saying that it’s really a younger man’s game,” he insists. “Not that there aren’t still parts and interesting things to do. As I get older and transition does its thing, the great thing about producing is you still get to be part of what I love most, which is storytelling. Or maybe it’s just me, maybe I’ve just seen my interests broadening or shifting into other things. But no. No!” — one last, long ah-huh-huh-huh — “It’s not a claim of retirement.”

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Saturday, September 14, 2019


Sporting both the army green and red colors of the DY woven nylon bracelet with black onyx and 8 gold beads.  The other bracelets appear to be the same.  The red tiger's eye is not clearly visible but could be below the red nylon.  The green nylon was not visible in his NY Times and taped interviews but he was wearing it in Tokyo.   So this photo could have been taken just before he left for Tokyo.  Counting the tiger's eye, 7 bracelets in all.  Possibly 7 in Tokyo as well but the photo in front of Tokyo Tower is too small and lo-res to tell for sure.









The film required Pitt to perform all manner of physical stunts and feats, as revealed during a recent 20th Century Fox panel on the studio lot promoting the film and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s involvement in creating its near-future verisimilitude.
However, according to James Gray, Pitt’s most impressive accomplishment was crying unprompted during a heavy, emotional scene toward the film’s finale. But as the scene takes place inside a space ship in zero-gravity, Pitt told Gray that the very-real tear should be edited in post to bubble off his face, rather than run down his cheek. (Think Sandra Bullock’s tearful, no-gravity soliloquy in “Gravity.”)
“‘You gotta replace my tear, that’s not how it works in zero-gravity,'” said Gray, recounting Pitt’s observation to the director that his tears technically wouldn’t fall that way. “I said sorry, I’m keeping it. The acting’s too good, buddy,” Gray responded.
The various challenging stunts in the film — from an intense zero-gravity fistfight, coordinated like a ballet, to a startling encounter with a critter best left unspoiled — also include a harrowing free-fall that Pitt’s character, Major Roy McBride, takes from the lower atmosphere all the way down to the surface in the film’s close-your-eyes terrifying opening sequence. Pitt, apparently, wanted to do the stunt himself.
Gray said of his leading actor, “He has a lot of guts. He wanted to do a skydive for the opening. He said ‘I’m gonna do it,’ and I said ‘I don’t think it’s a good idea. Let me explain something to you: Let’s get somebody else to do that.”
Gray added, “There’s no movie that’s worth someone dying for it. So I always hate seeing the stuntmen and women doing their thing. I have to look at it through, like, a cloth.”
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Friday, September 13, 2019


Brad's bees

Brad's David Yurman Petrvs bee ring

Ad Astra Tokyo press con

He has worn a bee ring constantly since he first started wearing rings during OUATIH's L.A. press junket. All have been by David Yurman, as are almost all of his necklaces and bracelets.

L to R from top:, OUATIH L.A. press, L.A. premiere, London premiere
2nd row: OUATIH Berlin premiere, Mexico premiere, B + 8E + LICIOUS
3rd row: Ad Astra Venice Film Fest, Tokyo premiere

close-ups
L.A., London and Berlin (Yurman's Petrvs Bee Signet pinky ring in 18K)
Mexico, Venice, Tokyo

Not only does Angelina have a bee conservation project now being aided by Guerlain, but Guerlain's emblem is a bee.


Close-up of his necklaces in Venice.
He appears to have 4 necklaces -- David Yurman's Skull Station Necklace in Labradorite and 3 gold chains.   At least 2 pendants that are clearly visible: octagonal and ring.  And possibly one behind the ring that is also octagonal.


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