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Brad Pitt: "Ich reise mit Stofftier"
He is one of the few true superstars in Hollywood - but he still waits for an Oscar! That could "win the Art - Moneyball" with the sports drama about to change. TV movie hit the zauselbärtigen Brad Pitt (48) to one of his rare interviews.
TV MOVIE: Mr. Pitt in "Moneyball" You play a sport manager, who believes implicitly in his decisions. Are you as an optimist?
BRAD PITT: Probably a realist.
TV MOVIE: The name?
BRAD PITT: If I'm fucked up, I make myself ready for a while - but eventually I'm just continue.
TV MOVIE: How do you deal with defeat?
BRAD PITT: A certain degree of self-torture is always with me to do so. Ultimately, I will only defeat by more ambitious.
TV MOVIE: Then you probably do their job no longer just for the money?
BRAD PITT: How do you say that? I work for the money! The difference is just too early, that I can not afford to accept only roles that I really liked it - and, of course, are lucrative. (Laughs)
TV MOVIE: Have you dreamed as a child actor to be?
BRAD PITT: Not really. I did not have big dreams. I loved movies, that's all.
TV MOVIE: Meet well-considered decisions, large or more intuitive?
BRAD PITT: I believe firmly to the gut. It might very well at all, if we would do things other times - and us from time to time be guided by an irrational way of thinking could be. I think that this way we could also solve a lot of problems.
TV MOVIE: In "Moneyball," they are indeed team manager, but no game to watch your team, because that brings bad luck. How superstitious are you yourself?
BRAD PITT: Not at all - but I'm paying attention, that I always have when flying a memento of my family here.
TV MOVIE: For example?
BRAD PITT: That can be a photo, a bracelet or a stuffed animal. The main thing it has something to do with my family.
TV MOVIE: You recently Angelina Jolie and their children as "Mr. Mom" accompanied by Hungary. If everything went well?
BRAD PITT: It was a great time. Budapest I explored by bicycle. I love Europe's infrastructure!
TV MOVIE: Are you therefore a part of the year in southern France?
BRAD PITT: Even. We are fascinated by the life there and we feel less persecuted by the paparazzi.
TV MOVIE: Is there a person in your life that you trust completely?
BRAD PITT: That reminds me of only one Angie. That's part of our great partnership. I do not trust many people. But that was not the point. As long as you have a person who can tell you everything, that's enough, I think
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BILD trifft den Mega-Star exklusiv in MexikoBrad Pitt: „Ich bin bei mir angekommen“
By Norbert Körzdörfer
Brad Pitt (48) is happy. He gets his first "Oscar" for his sport thriller "the art to win - Moneyball" in 30 days (cinema-start: February 2)? He celebrated the nomination with a kids breakfast.
World star Brad Pitt meets BILD columnist Norbert Körzdörfer at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Cancun. Brad Pitt children - swim with bodyguards in the Gulf of Mexico
★★★
Brad Pitt was never better than in his latest baseball thriller "The art of winning - Money Ball" (Germany-Start: 2 February).
Matured, chastened, wise.Now he was even nominated for an Oscar and says: "It's fun, if your name is called."All write about him.
IMAGE speaks with ihm.Wer and how is Brad Pitt?Cancun. Gulf of Mexico. Ritz Carlton Hotel.He squints into the sun.His tattooed arm aims to sea: "Because our children swim. This is the real happiness! "His blue eyes sparkle.He is relaxed. Gray on gray.
He is 48 and looks like 28 with gray stubble.He has six children (adopted three).He has the dream girl Angelina Jolie.
Happy?"Very. Tired too. "
IMAGE: Marriage Ripe?He laughs: "I have this ring. My lady and I do not need a certificate. But the kids push us. We have plenty of time. We are getting married, if allowed to marry in California, everyone - including same-sex ".
He's cool, crackling voice, gruff, with a grin. He speaks in short, slow, pondering: "Norbert, I do interviews with me hard - for ten years. Where I come from, one does not talk about himself. I torment myself still to explain myself. My father gave me some advice: 'In life, there is only about deeds' "
IMAGE: In two years you 50th What is your goal in life?"
I arrived at my place. I am a father. I love being an older man to be. You will clear the head. For two years I thought I was a year older than I really am. A mental block? I want to do important things and make movies, to which our children can be proud of! "
IMAGE: Understand the media hysteria about Brangelina?"
Yes. We assume that noise is not noted. We are grateful that we are doing so well and we remain faithful. There are so many comments and judgments out there, but they come from people who really do not know you! "
IMAGE: Googling yourself (95 million stories in the network)?
He grins: "To hell with it! Never! I love my iPad, but on the children's computers, we can block our names. You can not google Mom and Dad. I will not become dependent on other judgments. "
IMAGE: Their six children are your greatest joy?"Yes! There are daily micro-moments that make you happy. I teach them: never tell lies! Lying is bad for you! I consider it a great honor, to show the children the world and to explain ... "
He places his brown hand on my arm: "Sorry, I must go - too much, Fiji Water '!" He bounces on his gray sneakers to the toilet: "Be right back ..."
Tomorrow in PAGE: Brad Pitt hobbies, Berlin, beer, freedom, too small a double bed, fashion - and how to be winners in life, even if one loses.
Norbert Körzdörfer
Brad Pitt (48) is happy. He gets in his first 30 days of the "Oscar" for his sports-thriller "The art of win - Moneyball" (Theatrical Release Date: February 2)? He has celebrated the nomination with a children's breakfast.
We sit in silent "Fiji" water in the Gulf of Mexico. Swim out and waving his children:
"There is nothing that changes your life more than being a father. It is such a wonderful change your life perspectives. Everything is relative. I would never trade youth for wisdom that I learn every day and go for it! "
He is considering at 50 to step down from the screen: "I want to realize many important projects."
IMAGE: you have gray hair. Scared of aging?"Grey I'm long, I'm afraid of dying, but not before the aging process."
You can lead a normal life?
He laughs and his beard itches.
"What is normal? You have to enjoy it. In New Orleans we can walk. I love the variety of sounds and there to open a window to feel and hear the music. And to drink a beer on the balcony. "
They love Europe?
"Yes. Our fortress is our castle in France. Since we have our own proprietary world. A little paradise. "Do you have a house in Berlin?
He laughs: "No, but I'm very good friends there. I wish I had all the houses, because I love architecture - but then I would be Donald Trump. "
What drives you?"
I want to lead a responsible life. We should live according to our own specific rules. We are one big family - our 4-meter bed is always full. The kids are all around. We should buy a bigger one. We try to be open to people and cultures, learn about their strengths and understand their weaknesses. "
If your family is still growing?
He smiles. "I do not know. But why not? "What do you prefer?"I am focused on meaningful things to do. I try to keep everything simple. I like to work manually with your hands. I paint a lot, I love design and I fix things in our house. And I like to ride motorcycles - with a helmet you're anonymous. "Where do you go on holiday?
"Cities with tourists and paparazzi are taboo, but we fly to the birth cities of of our children. We were in Namibia - and since we were able to move freely. We try to discover new places for us. "
Your Lifestyle? Fashion and style?"
I will change everything. I do not uniformed. I want to feel free. As I once lost my BlackBerry, which was like a vacation. "
You love tattoos?"
Yes, but I do not want to explain."
Why a movie about baseball?
"That's what did not. Here, the scar on my eye was sutured 18 times - because I was a teenager hit a baseball. Four years of my life we were working on this pet project. It's about the silent human victory, only you can feel yourself. I find a great grandeur in it, if you defeat yourself - and only you know. I once watched the Olympics on TV and saw a Russian crash - but they went on dancing and that was more beautiful than ever! It was a quiet victory - even though she has not won. So I thought about for many years. In my film to win the underdogs, written off athletes triumph over the millionaires and celebrities. Each person is unique and has unique qualities. That's the point. "
Is there a secret to be a star?
"I make films for a long time. I'm very fast. The secret is that you open yourself to discovery and that you allow your soul. If I have a map of my role, which is like a flat line to the goal. "
How would you describe yourself to a stranger?
He laughs and is sucking on his water bottle:
"I would not do it, Norbert."
Brad, thanks for your time and your patience.
"I have to thank you. You absolutely must read the book to the film. It is very philosophical - there's also one for iPad ".
Said. Loaded. After reading this week. Brad Pitt goes soft, swaying and waving. His two bodyguards in British polo shirts follow him as loyal, smiling dachshund.
Click here for Part 1 of the interview with Brad Pitt!
Brad Pitt was never better than in his latest baseball thriller "The art of winning - Money Ball" (Germany-Start: 2 February).
Matured, chastened, wise.Now he was even nominated for an Oscar and says: "It's fun, if your name is called."All write about him.
IMAGE speaks with ihm.Wer and how is Brad Pitt?Cancun. Gulf of Mexico. Ritz Carlton Hotel.He squints into the sun.His tattooed arm aims to sea: "Because our children swim. This is the real happiness! "His blue eyes sparkle.He is relaxed. Gray on gray.
He is 48 and looks like 28 with gray stubble.He has six children (adopted three).He has the dream girl Angelina Jolie.
Happy?"Very. Tired too. "
IMAGE: Marriage Ripe?He laughs: "I have this ring. My lady and I do not need a certificate. But the kids push us. We have plenty of time. We are getting married, if allowed to marry in California, everyone - including same-sex ".
He's cool, crackling voice, gruff, with a grin. He speaks in short, slow, pondering: "Norbert, I do interviews with me hard - for ten years. Where I come from, one does not talk about himself. I torment myself still to explain myself. My father gave me some advice: 'In life, there is only about deeds' "
IMAGE: In two years you 50th What is your goal in life?"
I arrived at my place. I am a father. I love being an older man to be. You will clear the head. For two years I thought I was a year older than I really am. A mental block? I want to do important things and make movies, to which our children can be proud of! "
IMAGE: Understand the media hysteria about Brangelina?"
Yes. We assume that noise is not noted. We are grateful that we are doing so well and we remain faithful. There are so many comments and judgments out there, but they come from people who really do not know you! "
IMAGE: Googling yourself (95 million stories in the network)?
He grins: "To hell with it! Never! I love my iPad, but on the children's computers, we can block our names. You can not google Mom and Dad. I will not become dependent on other judgments. "
IMAGE: Their six children are your greatest joy?"Yes! There are daily micro-moments that make you happy. I teach them: never tell lies! Lying is bad for you! I consider it a great honor, to show the children the world and to explain ... "
He places his brown hand on my arm: "Sorry, I must go - too much, Fiji Water '!" He bounces on his gray sneakers to the toilet: "Be right back ..."
Tomorrow in PAGE: Brad Pitt hobbies, Berlin, beer, freedom, too small a double bed, fashion - and how to be winners in life, even if one loses.
BILD-Exklusiv-Interview mit Weltstar Brad Pitt (Teil 2)„Ich würde nie die Jugend für die Weisheit tauschen, die ich täglich erfahre und erlebe!“
Norbert Körzdörfer
Brad Pitt (48) is happy. He gets in his first 30 days of the "Oscar" for his sports-thriller "The art of win - Moneyball" (Theatrical Release Date: February 2)? He has celebrated the nomination with a children's breakfast.
We sit in silent "Fiji" water in the Gulf of Mexico. Swim out and waving his children:
"There is nothing that changes your life more than being a father. It is such a wonderful change your life perspectives. Everything is relative. I would never trade youth for wisdom that I learn every day and go for it! "
He is considering at 50 to step down from the screen: "I want to realize many important projects."
IMAGE: you have gray hair. Scared of aging?"Grey I'm long, I'm afraid of dying, but not before the aging process."
You can lead a normal life?
He laughs and his beard itches.
"What is normal? You have to enjoy it. In New Orleans we can walk. I love the variety of sounds and there to open a window to feel and hear the music. And to drink a beer on the balcony. "
They love Europe?
"Yes. Our fortress is our castle in France. Since we have our own proprietary world. A little paradise. "Do you have a house in Berlin?
He laughs: "No, but I'm very good friends there. I wish I had all the houses, because I love architecture - but then I would be Donald Trump. "
What drives you?"
I want to lead a responsible life. We should live according to our own specific rules. We are one big family - our 4-meter bed is always full. The kids are all around. We should buy a bigger one. We try to be open to people and cultures, learn about their strengths and understand their weaknesses. "
If your family is still growing?
He smiles. "I do not know. But why not? "What do you prefer?"I am focused on meaningful things to do. I try to keep everything simple. I like to work manually with your hands. I paint a lot, I love design and I fix things in our house. And I like to ride motorcycles - with a helmet you're anonymous. "Where do you go on holiday?
"Cities with tourists and paparazzi are taboo, but we fly to the birth cities of of our children. We were in Namibia - and since we were able to move freely. We try to discover new places for us. "
Your Lifestyle? Fashion and style?"
I will change everything. I do not uniformed. I want to feel free. As I once lost my BlackBerry, which was like a vacation. "
You love tattoos?"
Yes, but I do not want to explain."
Why a movie about baseball?
"That's what did not. Here, the scar on my eye was sutured 18 times - because I was a teenager hit a baseball. Four years of my life we were working on this pet project. It's about the silent human victory, only you can feel yourself. I find a great grandeur in it, if you defeat yourself - and only you know. I once watched the Olympics on TV and saw a Russian crash - but they went on dancing and that was more beautiful than ever! It was a quiet victory - even though she has not won. So I thought about for many years. In my film to win the underdogs, written off athletes triumph over the millionaires and celebrities. Each person is unique and has unique qualities. That's the point. "
Is there a secret to be a star?
"I make films for a long time. I'm very fast. The secret is that you open yourself to discovery and that you allow your soul. If I have a map of my role, which is like a flat line to the goal. "
How would you describe yourself to a stranger?
He laughs and is sucking on his water bottle:
"I would not do it, Norbert."
Brad, thanks for your time and your patience.
"I have to thank you. You absolutely must read the book to the film. It is very philosophical - there's also one for iPad ".
Said. Loaded. After reading this week. Brad Pitt goes soft, swaying and waving. His two bodyguards in British polo shirts follow him as loyal, smiling dachshund.
Click here for Part 1 of the interview with Brad Pitt!
Brad Pitt on Moneyball, the Oscars – and giving up dope
Nominated for two
Academy Awards, Brad Pitt's eccentric career is finally getting serious
recognition. He talks about his love of obsessive characters, his acting
highs and lows – and how he smoked himself into a doughnut
Brad Pitt arrives at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, January 2012. Photograph: Jordan Strauss
Brad Pitt
pops his head through the balcony doorway and stage-whispers my name.
He bounds round to shake hands and surveys the cauldron below that is
Hollywood Boulevard. No fuss. No fanfare. No harried flunkies with
clipboards listing the dos and don'ts. Just one of the most recognisable
men on the planet in a black jumpsuit and sneakers. And me. And a
bodyguard as tall as a sequoia outside the hotel room. "How ya doing?"
And then the deluge. I had heard of Pitt's lively curiosity,
his passion for architecture, philanthropy, his catholic taste in
reading material. I didn't know about the delivery system – a lava flow
articulated in a deep, rural drawl: "Who lives there next to the hotel?
How shall we arrange the chairs? Is that shorthand? You don't see that
much. How does it work? Ask me anything."
If Pitt could somehow flit from place to place as easily as he does in conversation, life would be a lot simpler. In fact, mapping a route from point to point is a daily logistical conundrum. "My destinations are determined by parking lots," he says, fresh-faced, neat-goateed. Today, a warm Friday in late January, he has made the tinted-window dash from the nearby Hollywood Hills compound he shares with Angelina Jolie and their six children.
Three days before, Pitt, 48, received the third and fourth Academy Award nominations of his career, earning recognition as producer and star of Moneyball. The movie took six nominations in all, while Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, in which he also stars, went home with three.
"We're so defined by the last success or the last failure that we even start to see ourselves that way," says Pitt. "You've got these awards and there's going to be one winner and four losers, but the four losers made great films. A subtle point of Moneyball is that we're a string of successes and failures. Odds are I won't have another year like this one for a while."
If Pitt could somehow flit from place to place as easily as he does in conversation, life would be a lot simpler. In fact, mapping a route from point to point is a daily logistical conundrum. "My destinations are determined by parking lots," he says, fresh-faced, neat-goateed. Today, a warm Friday in late January, he has made the tinted-window dash from the nearby Hollywood Hills compound he shares with Angelina Jolie and their six children.
Three days before, Pitt, 48, received the third and fourth Academy Award nominations of his career, earning recognition as producer and star of Moneyball. The movie took six nominations in all, while Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, in which he also stars, went home with three.
"We're so defined by the last success or the last failure that we even start to see ourselves that way," says Pitt. "You've got these awards and there's going to be one winner and four losers, but the four losers made great films. A subtle point of Moneyball is that we're a string of successes and failures. Odds are I won't have another year like this one for a while."
Pitt as Billy Beane in Moneyball. Photograph: Allstar/Columbia Pictures
Let's hope the odds preclude another production history as tortuous as that of Moneyball.
Based on Michael Lewis's book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair
Game, the film recounts how baseball team Oakland A's general manager
Billy Beane used unorthodox statistics to allow the struggling club to
compete with the best. Steven Soderbergh left the project and it took
Pitt, one of three producers, five years to get it up and running again.
He is quick to praise Sony Pictures for its faith in the project.
Uber-producer Scott Rudin is less circumspect. Pitt, Rudin said in a recent interview, "saved it single-handedly".
Why did he fight for it? "Well," he says, a lazy grin unfolding across his face. "I just worked on it for so damn long. I've been on that end of the experience a couple of times. The main character is a guy who's been devalued by the sport and is playing what he called an unfair game. And they go up against conventional wisdom and get called heretics in the process. At the end of the day this guy who's trying to win games is really trying to find his own values." He laughs. "Come on, man, that's good stuff."
When Pitt met Beane he discovered "a funny fucker, sharp as a knife", who shunned the limelight. "He reminded me of the characters I loved from 70s films. When I started in film I was taught that you had to have a character arc and there had to be an epiphany. As years go by I have found that to be utter bullshit. We don't really change; we evolve in degrees and what I love about these characters from the 70s like Popeye Doyle is they were the same beast at the end of the film as they were at the beginning. I do love obsessive characters. I get off on watching that."
Why did he fight for it? "Well," he says, a lazy grin unfolding across his face. "I just worked on it for so damn long. I've been on that end of the experience a couple of times. The main character is a guy who's been devalued by the sport and is playing what he called an unfair game. And they go up against conventional wisdom and get called heretics in the process. At the end of the day this guy who's trying to win games is really trying to find his own values." He laughs. "Come on, man, that's good stuff."
When Pitt met Beane he discovered "a funny fucker, sharp as a knife", who shunned the limelight. "He reminded me of the characters I loved from 70s films. When I started in film I was taught that you had to have a character arc and there had to be an epiphany. As years go by I have found that to be utter bullshit. We don't really change; we evolve in degrees and what I love about these characters from the 70s like Popeye Doyle is they were the same beast at the end of the film as they were at the beginning. I do love obsessive characters. I get off on watching that."
Pitt as drifter JD in Thelma & Louise. Photograph: Allstar
Pitt has been in the business for 20 years now. He moved to Los
Angeles from Springfield, Missouri, and paid his dues for a couple of
years doing commercials and extra work. His first big break came when he
played a horny cowboy in Ridley Scott's Thelma and Louise
in 1991. "That was the first time I was let into the show," he says. "I
remember thinking, 'Oh, that's how I come off.' I felt it could have
had more weight."
After Thelma and Louise, Pitt became a household name through a string of roles in A River Runs Through It ("the first time I felt pressure"), Kalifornia ("my first attempt at character work"), Interview With the Vampire ("I was miscast") and Legends of the Fall ("my first lead – they took a gamble on me"). Then he took a year off. "I was waiting to find something really interesting and that wait led me to [David] Fincher and Seven.
"Initially I'd read three pages of the script and put it down. A friend told me to finish it and I did and I met Finch and we were automatically talking the same language. When I got accepted to do Seven I had it written into the contract that the head stays in the box at the end. And that [Pitt's character] kills John Doe. When the premiere ended they flicked on the bright lights too quickly and people got up with this distasteful look on their faces and left. Finch and I looked at each other and said: 'What have we done?'"
After Thelma and Louise, Pitt became a household name through a string of roles in A River Runs Through It ("the first time I felt pressure"), Kalifornia ("my first attempt at character work"), Interview With the Vampire ("I was miscast") and Legends of the Fall ("my first lead – they took a gamble on me"). Then he took a year off. "I was waiting to find something really interesting and that wait led me to [David] Fincher and Seven.
"Initially I'd read three pages of the script and put it down. A friend told me to finish it and I did and I met Finch and we were automatically talking the same language. When I got accepted to do Seven I had it written into the contract that the head stays in the box at the end. And that [Pitt's character] kills John Doe. When the premiere ended they flicked on the bright lights too quickly and people got up with this distasteful look on their faces and left. Finch and I looked at each other and said: 'What have we done?'"
Pitt in Fight Club. Photograph: Allstar
That same year Pitt earned his first Oscar nomination for supporting actor in Twelve Monkeys. "I think I was forced on Terry [Gilliam]," Pitt says with a coy smile. "I got the first half dead-on, but I flunked the second." He is more scathing about Meet Joe Black, which came out three years later in 1998: "I flatlined in that one." The reunion with Fincher on Fight Club
in 1999 resulted in Tyler Durden, a suitably anarchic end to a
tumultuous, star-making decade. "The story was so outrageous … that was
just one of those rewarding experiences for all the other difficult ones
that preceded it."
By the end of the 90s, Pitt was awash in the trappings of celebrity but says he hankered after greater focus and fulfilment. "I'd smoked a lot of weed. I was professional at it. I wasn't participating in life. I was smoking myself into a doughnut, a mollusc. I got disgusted with it." Then he quit marijuana. "At the end I came to the very simple conclusion that I wanted to make things and be a part of stories that were personal and that I could bring value to and if I got this opportunity, to contribute something to the zeitgeist of film-making."
The following decade continued to stimulate and, by and large, please the critics. There was a recurring role in Soderbergh's Ocean franchise, Troy, Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, the Coen brothers' Burn After Reading and a third Fincher film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which resulted in Pitt's first lead actor Oscar nomination. His five-year marriage to Jennifer Aniston ended shortly after the summer 2005 release of Mr and Mrs Smith, where he met and fell in love with Jolie. "That was a monumental change for more reasons than one. Six plus one, to be exact. I think that film has merit, too. It's really good fun."
By the middle of the decade Pitt was flexing his producer muscles. "Instead of sitting there waiting for projects to come in, I wanted to start exploring stories that interested me." Pitt's new production company, Plan B, made its first deal, acquiring the script for The Departed, which would go on to win four Oscars, including Martin Scorsese's first for best director.
By the end of the 90s, Pitt was awash in the trappings of celebrity but says he hankered after greater focus and fulfilment. "I'd smoked a lot of weed. I was professional at it. I wasn't participating in life. I was smoking myself into a doughnut, a mollusc. I got disgusted with it." Then he quit marijuana. "At the end I came to the very simple conclusion that I wanted to make things and be a part of stories that were personal and that I could bring value to and if I got this opportunity, to contribute something to the zeitgeist of film-making."
The following decade continued to stimulate and, by and large, please the critics. There was a recurring role in Soderbergh's Ocean franchise, Troy, Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, the Coen brothers' Burn After Reading and a third Fincher film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which resulted in Pitt's first lead actor Oscar nomination. His five-year marriage to Jennifer Aniston ended shortly after the summer 2005 release of Mr and Mrs Smith, where he met and fell in love with Jolie. "That was a monumental change for more reasons than one. Six plus one, to be exact. I think that film has merit, too. It's really good fun."
By the middle of the decade Pitt was flexing his producer muscles. "Instead of sitting there waiting for projects to come in, I wanted to start exploring stories that interested me." Pitt's new production company, Plan B, made its first deal, acquiring the script for The Departed, which would go on to win four Oscars, including Martin Scorsese's first for best director.
Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James. Photograph: Allstar
Since then Plan B has produced, among others, A Mighty Heart, starring Jolie, Kick-Ass and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,
with Pitt in the lead. "Jesse James is absolutely one of my favourites,
and I think the more it decants the better it gets," he says softly.
"About three other people think that as well, but I think it's got legs.
It's elegant. Andrew Dominik is a phenomenal director."
Pitt reunited with the Australian film-maker last year to play an underworld fixer in Cogan's Trade. Also on the runway are zombie tale World War Z and a smaller role in Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave. "McQueen is the real deal," he says. "And Fassbender is as good as it gets." We discuss Fassbender's prolific workrate and Pitt remarks, "Yeah, it's like he's working in the porn industry. He should be, by the way."
As Pitt pushes 50, his physicality remains, but gone is the mania from his earlier work, in its place a more contemplative kinship with the obsessive characters he seems to feel most affinity towards. Being a producer has allowed him to cheerlead work of personal relevance. Does he think he's a good actor? "I think I've become one," he says, adding that being a father of six has created the need "not to embarrass myself in front of my kids".
There are deep reserves of goodwill for Pitt in the industry and recognition that, with Moneyball and The Tree of Life, he has quietly solidified a mighty, eccentric career, one that has embraced with equanimity gems and howlers, box-office smashes and lo-fi treasures. "I'm very sporadic, but I think I've got some skills now. What I'm lacking is the weight of some of the actors I like and maybe I'll focus on that." He waits a beat, unleashes a killer grin. "I'm so damn affable, it's disgusting."
Pitt reunited with the Australian film-maker last year to play an underworld fixer in Cogan's Trade. Also on the runway are zombie tale World War Z and a smaller role in Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave. "McQueen is the real deal," he says. "And Fassbender is as good as it gets." We discuss Fassbender's prolific workrate and Pitt remarks, "Yeah, it's like he's working in the porn industry. He should be, by the way."
As Pitt pushes 50, his physicality remains, but gone is the mania from his earlier work, in its place a more contemplative kinship with the obsessive characters he seems to feel most affinity towards. Being a producer has allowed him to cheerlead work of personal relevance. Does he think he's a good actor? "I think I've become one," he says, adding that being a father of six has created the need "not to embarrass myself in front of my kids".
There are deep reserves of goodwill for Pitt in the industry and recognition that, with Moneyball and The Tree of Life, he has quietly solidified a mighty, eccentric career, one that has embraced with equanimity gems and howlers, box-office smashes and lo-fi treasures. "I'm very sporadic, but I think I've got some skills now. What I'm lacking is the weight of some of the actors I like and maybe I'll focus on that." He waits a beat, unleashes a killer grin. "I'm so damn affable, it's disgusting."
