NOVEMBER 6, 2017
BRAD Pitt looks like he may have a case of the Benjamin Buttons.
The actor, who shocked fans with his gaunt appearance in the months following his split from Angelina Jolie, appears to have finally bounced back.
Pitt, 53, stepped out for the 2017 LACMA Art + Film Gala in Los Angeles over the weekend, looking incredibly youthful in a stylish Gucci suit and multicoloured tie.
The star’s healthy appearance could be the result of his new lifestyle — he admitted to GQ earlier this year that he’d given up drinking after struggling with alcohol issues for most of his adult life.
“I can’t remember a day since I got out of college when I wasn’t boozing or had a spliff, or something,” he told the magazine in May.
“I mean, I stopped everything except boozing when I started my family. But even this last year, you know — things I wasn’t dealing with. I was boozing too much. It’s just become a problem.
“And I’m really happy it’s been half a year now, which is bittersweet, but I’ve got my feelings in my fingertips again.”
Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt last September after 12 years together.
The former couple are co-parents to six children — Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne.
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Monday, November 6, 2017
It Looks Like Brad Pitt Has Rediscovered The Fountain Of Youth
By Finlay Renwick
NOV 6, 2017
Teach us, Bradley
If you've ever watched Fury, the WW2 tank drama starring Shia LaBeouf, Brad Pitt and a whole lot of purebred American VALOUR, then you'll recall a scene where Pitt, aged 50 at the time, whips off his mud-caked uniform to reveal a ripped torso that makes you just about angry enough to get up and storm out of Cineworld. You're practically half his age, you went to the gym three times last week and you've abstained from bread for 15 days, and he pull this bulls*it on you? He's 50, he's not meant to look this...
A man with metabolism like California wildfire and the catalyst behind an entire fitness cult, the bar is ever-so-slightly raised when it comes to how Brad Pitt looks, which is why we were a bit worried when he started wearing all white and became obsessed with pottery, spending days at a time cooped up inside an L.A. studio, alone but for Justin Vernon's woodland falsetto playing on an infinite loop as he furiously sculpted.
Had Brad Pitt lost it? Was this the start of a Brando-style ballooning? Was he going to get loads of plastic surgery and go a bit... mad?
No.
At least if these latest photos of an infuriatingly healthy, 53-year-old Pitt are anything to go by.
Enjoying a couple of ice cold glasses of Afghan sheep bone broth (or whatever you need to drink to look great forever) at the 2017 LACMA Art + Film Gala (he's wearing Gucci btw), Brad looked a few decades short of an age where most men are complaining about climbing the stairs and getting really into fleeces. He even opted for a totally clean-shaven face, the kind of grooming power move that says you're really backing your bone structure.
You look happy, Brad. We hope you're still making vases.
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NOV 6, 2017
Teach us, Bradley
If you've ever watched Fury, the WW2 tank drama starring Shia LaBeouf, Brad Pitt and a whole lot of purebred American VALOUR, then you'll recall a scene where Pitt, aged 50 at the time, whips off his mud-caked uniform to reveal a ripped torso that makes you just about angry enough to get up and storm out of Cineworld. You're practically half his age, you went to the gym three times last week and you've abstained from bread for 15 days, and he pull this bulls*it on you? He's 50, he's not meant to look this...
A man with metabolism like California wildfire and the catalyst behind an entire fitness cult, the bar is ever-so-slightly raised when it comes to how Brad Pitt looks, which is why we were a bit worried when he started wearing all white and became obsessed with pottery, spending days at a time cooped up inside an L.A. studio, alone but for Justin Vernon's woodland falsetto playing on an infinite loop as he furiously sculpted.
Had Brad Pitt lost it? Was this the start of a Brando-style ballooning? Was he going to get loads of plastic surgery and go a bit... mad?
No.
At least if these latest photos of an infuriatingly healthy, 53-year-old Pitt are anything to go by.
Enjoying a couple of ice cold glasses of Afghan sheep bone broth (or whatever you need to drink to look great forever) at the 2017 LACMA Art + Film Gala (he's wearing Gucci btw), Brad looked a few decades short of an age where most men are complaining about climbing the stairs and getting really into fleeces. He even opted for a totally clean-shaven face, the kind of grooming power move that says you're really backing your bone structure.
You look happy, Brad. We hope you're still making vases.
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Brad Pitt Transforms Into His ‘90s Heartthrob Self Thanks to a Simple Shave
By Rachel McRady November 6, 2017
He’s back! Brad Pitt’s been on a real hair evolution for the past few years. From his long locks to his scruffy beard, it’s been quite the journey.
But on Saturday, the Oscar winner, 53, was once again turning heads all thanks to a clean shave. Pitt looked decades younger at the LACMA Art + Film Gala honoring Mark Bradford and George Lucas.
The single star was back to his ‘90s heartthrob ways, rocking his spiky hair, signature grin, and fresh face.
Pitt wore a black Gucci suit with a colorful tie to the event and mingled with the other celebrity guests.
Pitt is in the midst of filming his new movie Ad Astra, and has been keeping a low-key profile on set.
"When he’s not on set filming, he hangs out in his trailer,” a source previously told ET. "He’s never late and he always arrives to set ready to work."
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He’s back! Brad Pitt’s been on a real hair evolution for the past few years. From his long locks to his scruffy beard, it’s been quite the journey.
But on Saturday, the Oscar winner, 53, was once again turning heads all thanks to a clean shave. Pitt looked decades younger at the LACMA Art + Film Gala honoring Mark Bradford and George Lucas.
The single star was back to his ‘90s heartthrob ways, rocking his spiky hair, signature grin, and fresh face.
Pitt wore a black Gucci suit with a colorful tie to the event and mingled with the other celebrity guests.
Pitt is in the midst of filming his new movie Ad Astra, and has been keeping a low-key profile on set.
"When he’s not on set filming, he hangs out in his trailer,” a source previously told ET. "He’s never late and he always arrives to set ready to work."
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Monday, August 28, 2017
COMMENTS
August 28, 2017
So #TaylorSwift spent a million dollars on a video to defend her lies. 🙄
Sit down. You lied on Kayne and it was on tape.
“I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative” but she keeps bringing it back #VMAs #TaylorSwift
i relate to taylor swift, i, too, am constantly victimizing myself in situations i get myself into & could've easily avoided
Taylor Swift released the best diss track of all time...
AND IT WAS TOWARDS HERSELF.
You don't mock Taylor Swift.
Only Taylor Swift mocks Taylor Swift
Good morning Taylor Swift who released a fire music video throwing shade back at everyone who thought they were hurting her
Hahaha! No, they are done! So is she
She’ll only be remembered as Brad Pitts ex. Her irrelevancy is gaining power at an alarming rate. Lol!!!
She lost her looks, sex appeal, her marriage, her family, real friends, long term staff, her careers, and her audience. Lol!!
This pathetic loser has destroyed herself and all in her path. Only her paid flying monkeys are left, which she pays to like her. They dont like her! They like her money and free trips around the world. They use her like she uses them only she is falling hard. Will they go down with her? Doubt it!
You are beyond irrelevant and the public dumped you just like Brad did Angie. You have no one who really likes you for you..well one, but you managed to screw that up too. Lol! You’re too pathetic.
She’s a self-serving hag. He deserves better
Angelina is a very spiteful woman. She should have kept her family life private for the sake of her kids.
When it gets down to the knitty gritty, don't think any one likes or wants to be around her any more. Can't blame them she is a nut case from all the yrs of drugs.
You messed up bad Angie. Get used to little to no comments.
She's desperate to have anyone on her side about now. cant stand her.
So #TaylorSwift spent a million dollars on a video to defend her lies. 🙄
Sit down. You lied on Kayne and it was on tape.
“I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative” but she keeps bringing it back #VMAs #TaylorSwift
i relate to taylor swift, i, too, am constantly victimizing myself in situations i get myself into & could've easily avoided
Taylor Swift released the best diss track of all time...
AND IT WAS TOWARDS HERSELF.
You don't mock Taylor Swift.
Only Taylor Swift mocks Taylor Swift
Good morning Taylor Swift who released a fire music video throwing shade back at everyone who thought they were hurting her
Hahaha! No, they are done! So is she
She’ll only be remembered as Brad Pitts ex. Her irrelevancy is gaining power at an alarming rate. Lol!!!
She lost her looks, sex appeal, her marriage, her family, real friends, long term staff, her careers, and her audience. Lol!!
This pathetic loser has destroyed herself and all in her path. Only her paid flying monkeys are left, which she pays to like her. They dont like her! They like her money and free trips around the world. They use her like she uses them only she is falling hard. Will they go down with her? Doubt it!
You are beyond irrelevant and the public dumped you just like Brad did Angie. You have no one who really likes you for you..well one, but you managed to screw that up too. Lol! You’re too pathetic.
She’s a self-serving hag. He deserves better
Angelina is a very spiteful woman. She should have kept her family life private for the sake of her kids.
When it gets down to the knitty gritty, don't think any one likes or wants to be around her any more. Can't blame them she is a nut case from all the yrs of drugs.
You messed up bad Angie. Get used to little to no comments.
She's desperate to have anyone on her side about now. cant stand her.
How do they know she is "makeup free" ? She is dressing like a monk ... she needs to find a job or do something besides adopt children, she is getting annoying lol
I wouldn't go out in public in my house dress! Good grief lady.
Cant help but notice she feeds the kids rubbish a lot of the time, fizzy drinks, ice cream etc. Plus they are mostly in flip-flops, not enough support for developing feet!
Another day, another pap stroll.
How does she look stylish in the same old black tent? Does she not own anything pretty with all that money she's got?
Seriously what is with the black outfits ALL the time
She is only 42??...she look like she is approaching 60
What on earth is she wearing????
She constantly dresses in these ridiculous black robe things now like she's in mourning. What a weirdo.
"Makeup-free:" I don't think that means what you think it means. Just say "natural look," because you have no idea if she's wearing makeup or not. Not everyone slaps it on in bright colors like a damn clown.
She makes herself look older than her real age
Angelina is beautiful but she always dresses like she's attending a funeralz
Shiloh is beautiful and would be a stunning young woman, despite what has been reported, she looks so feminine and is growing tall and slender.
I hope Shiloh escapes this circus. and does a tell all. lol.
September 07, 2017
She attempted to wage war in the press against her husband. Doing so was not in the best interest of her children. For their sake, she should have kept these matters private. She didn't care about the kids then or subsequently. In fact, Pitt has a pretty good case for parental alienation and should have requested a psychological evaluation on her. She's a b%tch.
Just listen, she does everything for the children, she sells them, like her whole personal life and tries again to slander Brad Pitt. Nothing new. The more she tries to pour dirt him, the more she pours herself.
Brad Pitt did not touch his child and this is already proved, Jolie agreed to keep secret the documents on divorce, when she saw how Hollywood supported him on the Golden Globe. And to correct her image, she forced him to give an interview in GQ. This article is another spit in the direction of Brad Pitt. It's terrible ....
If you carefully read the article, you would have realized that mud is being for Brad Pitt poured here, not for your "classy lady" and indeed, Jolie does not have a regulatory mechanism, he told the truth.
Oh, yes, if you do not believe in her lies, remember the Vanity Fair, everything will become a little clear.
No sympathy for her at all ..
Always trying to play the victim smh
Wasn't she sleeping with Brad while he was married? Can't stand her.
Yes, take pity on poor Jolie, see how her people are trying to blacken Brad and make her a saint. Yes, she had planned this divorce for the sake of a political career for a long time and wanted to send Brad under the bus, and now she wonder why she is not supported ? Angelina, stop lying and pretend to be a victim. They still dare to say that Brad has a big PR? You're kidding, yes, no more than this Madame. A shame. seeks sympathy and support, good luck with it.
I think she is reaping what was sewn. And she's the one who dicked Brad around. He was blindsided
I swear this woman does not know who she is from day to day
Why did you leave him then??? Ugh.
She's the breadwinner? lol...like Brad Pitt just walked away without supporting his family? What a hoot! Bring on the violin! They are done. For sure.
She is a liar of the first order, a manipulating, underhanded sneaking thief who has no moral compass. She shouldn't be allowed to raise any children, because she is following her mother's scorched earth 🌏 policy. That woman was useless. And so is her daughter. Those kids will reap what she has sown. "Taking care of her family?" No, letting the nannies raise the children.
She's a witch all right!
I Lost All Respect For Her. She Hurts People . At Least Bratt Pitt Had The Decency To Admit He Was Wrong . She Hurt Jennifer Aniston . Have You Seen Jenifer Aniston Interviews . This Women Lies. She Never Admits Nothing. She Is No Role Model ..
Narcissistic Scarecrow!
Brad has no plans to go back to Miss Control Queen. He loves his kids more than he does not care about her.
Her pap stroll is really tiresome. she definitely is ano*rexia
I see Brad is speeding up the divorce. That's a great answer to the reconciliation rumors planted by her. LOL
Lord she is such a beautiful woman but looks so unwell.
totally skeleton
Attention seeking behaviour, who doesn't wear a bra going to the pet store with their young child
No rest for the attention-seeking, braless pap strolls with distressed kids. She looks scarily skinny, no wonder, a narcissist and manipulative liar may get far but she has already reached her limits, less and less people believe her lies.
Scary skinny
Don't think I've seen such a thin person not hooked up to drips in the ICU. What is she USING to keep on going?
I'm surprised she hasn't added osteoporosis to her list of ailments. She clearly does not eat properly or get the right nutrients. She's looks like a walking cor pse!
It's smells of cheap populism. It does not surprise me, from such personality as Angelina Jolie, this was to be expected. I still remember the incident with the Vanity Fair.
Look at her arms and hands. She's a walking skeleton.
Little Vivian always looks so sad & wistful. Doesn't anyone ever brush her hair?
Angelina doesn't know enough to have her kids dress nicely for a special ceremony like this.
At very least she tries to do some good in this world. Not perfect but who is? Participating more than the rest of us thats for sure. (meh...)
I have more respect for the everyday person that spends each and every day doing real work . The nurses , the fire fighters , the carers , the workforce in general . She gets well paid for her contributions and well supported . She has taken plenty of money from the average person to fund her extravagant adventures . To place her up on a pedestal is naive . What about the real people that go back to nothing after trying to save the world while she goes back to one of her many mansions with so much employed people making her life easier and more comfortable . her children want for nothing and will never have to worry about opportunities . A saint she is not ...look around you ..there are saints everywhere that get nothing for it
BS, everyday working people do a lot of good in the world they just don't pay for a camera crew to film them as they do it. Or take out ads in magazines. Angelina racks up hefty bills that the poor country she is in has to foot whenever she decides to go on a 'humanitarian trip', the security that must be in place is huge. What honestly has her speeches done for refugees besides inflating her ego?
what good? taking big paychecks for promoting the UN
Has AJ paid the DM to upvote all the positive comments about her?
She is a liar, and extremely deceptive. Constantly using her children to promote her own self worth. After the casting fiasco with children, you couldn't pay me to see her movie.
........HE WAS A ...F.O.O.L....TO EVER GET MIXED UP WITH THAT WOMAN.........
She'll manipulate him till his last breath, using the kids. Is Vivienne following in Shiloh's footsteps? Wouldn't it be kind of unusual to happen twice in the same family?
September 08, 2017
I find it very absurd that a CM contract has some restrictions on marriage or pregnancy. I get that divorce might be bad publicity but marriage or pregnancy...?? Yes, being pregnant has an effect when you are shooting a movie but for a cm..
I just don't get the image Japan has on women. Or even with idols, actors, any famous person. Like so many agencies forbids even dating (or making it public) because of fans. Imagine if that was the case with e.g. American celebrities. Imagine if everytime Taylor Swift started dating a guy and she had to make an video for her fans, cry, apologise and shave her head...
I'm not huge fan of Takei Emi but I wish her all the best and hope her sponsors don't leave her just because she wanted to start a family.
If she were to do CM for alcohol for example, having a pregnant woman will send wrong signals to the audience.
She has CM contracts for medicine which may not be suitable for pregnant woman.
This is scary, but not for the reasons you are mentioning. I remember she went to a show with Arashi (could have been Himitsu no Arashi-chan) and they went to a fortune teller.
Takei Emi told her that she had always assumed that she would marry at 23, but the fortune teller told her that she should marry at 33, that if she were to marry at 23 she would have a long and successful carrer in Japan only, but if she waited until she was 33 she would become a world star.
I remember Takei Emi's staff started to freak out and they called her agency (BTW I think her agency is still Oscar Promotions, who ban their artists from dating until age 25, lol), but Takei Emi was like I don't care I'm getting married at 23.
She's strong willed I'll give her that. Even Arashi menbers were like: Girl you should wait just in case!
Takei Emi's dream of marrying at 23 y/o has come true, just as she said in an Arashi show 6 years ago. Congratulations to her!
you,re a braver man than i brad ,she,s wacko
a worthy Oscar film, where they humiliated orphans and poor children. Bravo, the choice is yours Academy!
She would be difficult to live with. High maintenance.
...more like High Anxiety.
Remember this is the nut who carried a vial of her boyfiend's blood on her, around her neck. CooCoon personified.
She even had/has issues with her own father. Personally, I think she just can't accept anyone being something different than herself. Good luck with that. Wonder if she will lose contact with one of her male sons once they reach adulthood and live their own way.
wow, so much to go through. Health issues are so huge. And then a divorce on top of it.
Imagine doing it without 200 million.
If you don't want to be alone, then work through the tough times! I'm in my 32nd year of marriage. It's takes care, work, compromise, forgiveness and commitment.
The more she talks the more I'm turned off. this is just too much now.
That could be an interesting book, actually. Because I think Jolie is an extremely high maintenance, emotionally overwrought, and downright nasty woman. I feel sorry for her kids.
I can't wait her kids grow up and write "Mommie Dearest" on her.
I'm starting to see why little Vivienne looks so traumatized, if the littlest ones were told all about the Khmer Rouge at their tender age. Ange seems to have straw for brains.
Brad's production company is so successful producing so many award-winning and award-nominated movies but her production company is a failure. You bet she is jealous and unhappy.
I can see how Brad might have had a tough time--the kids make the decisions? How can you live like that?
She is just ridiculous. Her kids need a normal life instead of being being dragged all over the world with tutors.
They were emotionally involved? Most of them are too young to really grasp what happened in Cambodia during the Vietnam war and they should be allowed to be children. There will be plenty of time for them to learn about the evil that men do later on.
Still doing PR for a movie no one want see.
She always says how she wants her kids to be anything else besides actors, and there she goes constantly involving them in any film she's in. What a hyp,ocrite!
Ah yes, you are right, she IS trying to force the London move on the family by claiming it's the kids' idea. I don't see how Brad put up with her man ipulation for so many years.
She is very dark and twizzted, it seems
Angelina says all this stuff thinking it is cute. However, it smacks of Parentification. She has made those children responsible for her emotional wellbeing instead of it being the correct way around. She needs to realise that SHE is the adult, and they are the children. Then act like it! I see she is laying the groundwork for moving to London again, but claiming the children want it so she can force consent from Brad. Disingenuous
AJ finished her shameful film a year ago, but the divorce scandal did not allow her to speak at that time. She waited time to start her movie for a period of rewards. At that time, all of Pitt's films came out in the middle of hell, he was strongly labeled by the media and now they are doing it with him. Jolie's team, along and across, studied the story of Princess Diana, her interview, she wants to cause pity and look like Diana in the public eye. She will lying a lot and give false interviews, counting on the support and love of the public. All the press is bought, her team wants to influence people, with the help of articles, autobiographical films about her, it will soon be. If this is not a reasonable creature go to politicis, the end of the world will come. How can we be pride people? In this world everything can be bought, you are deceived as kittens.
Jolie will never find another good man. She lost all her looks, has six brats, is anorexic and still is on H. She’s a loser.
September 07, 2017
She attempted to wage war in the press against her husband. Doing so was not in the best interest of her children. For their sake, she should have kept these matters private. She didn't care about the kids then or subsequently. In fact, Pitt has a pretty good case for parental alienation and should have requested a psychological evaluation on her. She's a b%tch.
Just listen, she does everything for the children, she sells them, like her whole personal life and tries again to slander Brad Pitt. Nothing new. The more she tries to pour dirt him, the more she pours herself.
Brad Pitt did not touch his child and this is already proved, Jolie agreed to keep secret the documents on divorce, when she saw how Hollywood supported him on the Golden Globe. And to correct her image, she forced him to give an interview in GQ. This article is another spit in the direction of Brad Pitt. It's terrible ....
If you carefully read the article, you would have realized that mud is being for Brad Pitt poured here, not for your "classy lady" and indeed, Jolie does not have a regulatory mechanism, he told the truth.
Oh, yes, if you do not believe in her lies, remember the Vanity Fair, everything will become a little clear.
No sympathy for her at all ..
Always trying to play the victim smh
Wasn't she sleeping with Brad while he was married? Can't stand her.
Yes, take pity on poor Jolie, see how her people are trying to blacken Brad and make her a saint. Yes, she had planned this divorce for the sake of a political career for a long time and wanted to send Brad under the bus, and now she wonder why she is not supported ? Angelina, stop lying and pretend to be a victim. They still dare to say that Brad has a big PR? You're kidding, yes, no more than this Madame. A shame. seeks sympathy and support, good luck with it.
I think she is reaping what was sewn. And she's the one who dicked Brad around. He was blindsided
I swear this woman does not know who she is from day to day
Why did you leave him then??? Ugh.
She's the breadwinner? lol...like Brad Pitt just walked away without supporting his family? What a hoot! Bring on the violin! They are done. For sure.
She is a liar of the first order, a manipulating, underhanded sneaking thief who has no moral compass. She shouldn't be allowed to raise any children, because she is following her mother's scorched earth 🌏 policy. That woman was useless. And so is her daughter. Those kids will reap what she has sown. "Taking care of her family?" No, letting the nannies raise the children.
She's a witch all right!
I Lost All Respect For Her. She Hurts People . At Least Bratt Pitt Had The Decency To Admit He Was Wrong . She Hurt Jennifer Aniston . Have You Seen Jenifer Aniston Interviews . This Women Lies. She Never Admits Nothing. She Is No Role Model ..
Narcissistic Scarecrow!
Brad has no plans to go back to Miss Control Queen. He loves his kids more than he does not care about her.
Her pap stroll is really tiresome. she definitely is ano*rexia
I see Brad is speeding up the divorce. That's a great answer to the reconciliation rumors planted by her. LOL
Lord she is such a beautiful woman but looks so unwell.
totally skeleton
Attention seeking behaviour, who doesn't wear a bra going to the pet store with their young child
No rest for the attention-seeking, braless pap strolls with distressed kids. She looks scarily skinny, no wonder, a narcissist and manipulative liar may get far but she has already reached her limits, less and less people believe her lies.
Scary skinny
Don't think I've seen such a thin person not hooked up to drips in the ICU. What is she USING to keep on going?
I'm surprised she hasn't added osteoporosis to her list of ailments. She clearly does not eat properly or get the right nutrients. She's looks like a walking cor pse!
It's smells of cheap populism. It does not surprise me, from such personality as Angelina Jolie, this was to be expected. I still remember the incident with the Vanity Fair.
Look at her arms and hands. She's a walking skeleton.
Little Vivian always looks so sad & wistful. Doesn't anyone ever brush her hair?
Angelina doesn't know enough to have her kids dress nicely for a special ceremony like this.
At very least she tries to do some good in this world. Not perfect but who is? Participating more than the rest of us thats for sure. (meh...)
I have more respect for the everyday person that spends each and every day doing real work . The nurses , the fire fighters , the carers , the workforce in general . She gets well paid for her contributions and well supported . She has taken plenty of money from the average person to fund her extravagant adventures . To place her up on a pedestal is naive . What about the real people that go back to nothing after trying to save the world while she goes back to one of her many mansions with so much employed people making her life easier and more comfortable . her children want for nothing and will never have to worry about opportunities . A saint she is not ...look around you ..there are saints everywhere that get nothing for it
BS, everyday working people do a lot of good in the world they just don't pay for a camera crew to film them as they do it. Or take out ads in magazines. Angelina racks up hefty bills that the poor country she is in has to foot whenever she decides to go on a 'humanitarian trip', the security that must be in place is huge. What honestly has her speeches done for refugees besides inflating her ego?
what good? taking big paychecks for promoting the UN
Has AJ paid the DM to upvote all the positive comments about her?
She is a liar, and extremely deceptive. Constantly using her children to promote her own self worth. After the casting fiasco with children, you couldn't pay me to see her movie.
........HE WAS A ...F.O.O.L....TO EVER GET MIXED UP WITH THAT WOMAN.........
She'll manipulate him till his last breath, using the kids. Is Vivienne following in Shiloh's footsteps? Wouldn't it be kind of unusual to happen twice in the same family?
September 08, 2017
I find it very absurd that a CM contract has some restrictions on marriage or pregnancy. I get that divorce might be bad publicity but marriage or pregnancy...?? Yes, being pregnant has an effect when you are shooting a movie but for a cm..
I just don't get the image Japan has on women. Or even with idols, actors, any famous person. Like so many agencies forbids even dating (or making it public) because of fans. Imagine if that was the case with e.g. American celebrities. Imagine if everytime Taylor Swift started dating a guy and she had to make an video for her fans, cry, apologise and shave her head...
I'm not huge fan of Takei Emi but I wish her all the best and hope her sponsors don't leave her just because she wanted to start a family.
If she were to do CM for alcohol for example, having a pregnant woman will send wrong signals to the audience.
She has CM contracts for medicine which may not be suitable for pregnant woman.
This is scary, but not for the reasons you are mentioning. I remember she went to a show with Arashi (could have been Himitsu no Arashi-chan) and they went to a fortune teller.
Takei Emi told her that she had always assumed that she would marry at 23, but the fortune teller told her that she should marry at 33, that if she were to marry at 23 she would have a long and successful carrer in Japan only, but if she waited until she was 33 she would become a world star.
I remember Takei Emi's staff started to freak out and they called her agency (BTW I think her agency is still Oscar Promotions, who ban their artists from dating until age 25, lol), but Takei Emi was like I don't care I'm getting married at 23.
She's strong willed I'll give her that. Even Arashi menbers were like: Girl you should wait just in case!
Takei Emi's dream of marrying at 23 y/o has come true, just as she said in an Arashi show 6 years ago. Congratulations to her!
you,re a braver man than i brad ,she,s wacko
a worthy Oscar film, where they humiliated orphans and poor children. Bravo, the choice is yours Academy!
She would be difficult to live with. High maintenance.
...more like High Anxiety.
Remember this is the nut who carried a vial of her boyfiend's blood on her, around her neck. CooCoon personified.
She even had/has issues with her own father. Personally, I think she just can't accept anyone being something different than herself. Good luck with that. Wonder if she will lose contact with one of her male sons once they reach adulthood and live their own way.
wow, so much to go through. Health issues are so huge. And then a divorce on top of it.
Imagine doing it without 200 million.
If you don't want to be alone, then work through the tough times! I'm in my 32nd year of marriage. It's takes care, work, compromise, forgiveness and commitment.
The more she talks the more I'm turned off. this is just too much now.
That could be an interesting book, actually. Because I think Jolie is an extremely high maintenance, emotionally overwrought, and downright nasty woman. I feel sorry for her kids.
I can't wait her kids grow up and write "Mommie Dearest" on her.
I'm starting to see why little Vivienne looks so traumatized, if the littlest ones were told all about the Khmer Rouge at their tender age. Ange seems to have straw for brains.
Brad's production company is so successful producing so many award-winning and award-nominated movies but her production company is a failure. You bet she is jealous and unhappy.
I can see how Brad might have had a tough time--the kids make the decisions? How can you live like that?
She is just ridiculous. Her kids need a normal life instead of being being dragged all over the world with tutors.
They were emotionally involved? Most of them are too young to really grasp what happened in Cambodia during the Vietnam war and they should be allowed to be children. There will be plenty of time for them to learn about the evil that men do later on.
Still doing PR for a movie no one want see.
She always says how she wants her kids to be anything else besides actors, and there she goes constantly involving them in any film she's in. What a hyp,ocrite!
Ah yes, you are right, she IS trying to force the London move on the family by claiming it's the kids' idea. I don't see how Brad put up with her man ipulation for so many years.
She is very dark and twizzted, it seems
Angelina says all this stuff thinking it is cute. However, it smacks of Parentification. She has made those children responsible for her emotional wellbeing instead of it being the correct way around. She needs to realise that SHE is the adult, and they are the children. Then act like it! I see she is laying the groundwork for moving to London again, but claiming the children want it so she can force consent from Brad. Disingenuous
AJ finished her shameful film a year ago, but the divorce scandal did not allow her to speak at that time. She waited time to start her movie for a period of rewards. At that time, all of Pitt's films came out in the middle of hell, he was strongly labeled by the media and now they are doing it with him. Jolie's team, along and across, studied the story of Princess Diana, her interview, she wants to cause pity and look like Diana in the public eye. She will lying a lot and give false interviews, counting on the support and love of the public. All the press is bought, her team wants to influence people, with the help of articles, autobiographical films about her, it will soon be. If this is not a reasonable creature go to politicis, the end of the world will come. How can we be pride people? In this world everything can be bought, you are deceived as kittens.
Jolie will never find another good man. She lost all her looks, has six brats, is anorexic and still is on H. She’s a loser.
Hatred does not happen without a reason, people are tired of lies, from miserable millionaires who try to make for all puppets because they wants to manipulate and earn money.
After 20 years of her PR antics, lies, vengeance seeking, manipulation and spin you are still unable to see what everyone else can? She has a diagnosed personality disorder, surely you can't deny that as well as everything else you deny in your pursuit of being her bestest ever fan?
Using the kids again and lying again. Jolie doesn't have a genuine bone a bone in her body.
More lies. Lies about her own kids being abused and traumatized then covering up for what happened to the Cambodian kids on the set of her movie. Now the parental alienation of Brad by saying she's "the breadwinner of the family" like the kids don't have a loving supportive millionaire dad.
And what these poor people will say, if they start to rebel, her PR just shut up they the mouth with money. AJ has more than once tried so. She deceives you naive sheep.
Go away Jolie. Your time has been and gone.
Jolie's time has been and gone and she's worn out her welcome. She's still talking incessantly about her kids because she thinks it makes her seem relatable and organising papstrolls with her kids to the shops every couple of days and tipping off the photographers but it's tired now. The whole world now thinks she is a beeoytch.
Enough of this self serving woman.
she IS trying to force the London move on the family by claiming it's the kids' idea. I don't see how Brad put up with her man ipulation for so many years.
do you really think it is ok for this woman to use her children like this? And ok for her to push emotional baggage on them when they should be at school and making real friends, instead of the film maker's children she tries to pass off as their friends in all her pap-strolls? You Angieloonies will literally forgive her anything at all, even blatant explotation of her children from the day they were born.
The more she talks the more I'm turned off. this is just too much now.
Yes she gets jealous, she will not like it when he dates again. They will soon be ex’s, but Brad should ease into it or hell will break loose. Make sure she has someone too. It will only help all if he does and that way he can move forward.
Sounds nuts that he would show concern after split but it would make his life much more happier if her focus isnt on who he’s with but who she has too. Food for thought.
Too bad Angie let that nice lady get away. It was weird seeing my comment displayed here while someone borrowed my words (oh dear)
He’s better off without her.
This woman sounds so exhausting, I’m not surprised that he kept drinking when he was with her. She’s one complicated, spoiled HW br at.
Who cares what that hateful bi tch says or does, he’s single, he can do what he wants.
After 12-13 years with Angelina “It’s never my fault, I’m a perfect saint” Jolie, Brad is allowed to have fun
Those poor little rich kids will need weekly therapy until they’re 30.
Anorexia Jolie will be jealous when he’s dating again, that’s just the way she is. She hates not being in control. It’ll be hard for her to find another partner – no sane man wants to date a crazy skeleton and her unruly brood.
I can imagine that jealous, possessive, insane Jolie will be stamping her feet, gnashing her teeth, screaming when he has a new girlfriend. This control freak/narcissist doesn’t want Pitt anymore, but she also doesn’t want any other woman to have him; can’t stand to see him happy with anyone but her loony self.
Would love to see Brad settle down with a down to earth non Hollywood type. I think that would be really good for him.
She needs to move on… Get a life…
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie dismiss persistent reunion reports? Are you talking about those articles that YOU wrote about it? Don't worry, we know they will divorce. This tabloid is a joke.
Of course Brad doesn't want to get back with this miserable and vile woman.
It's reported that Brad now he has had the operation to remove his brain that the divorce was a wrong decision and he wants to reconcile
dont go back to her Brad she'll suck the life out of you.
What did he expect would happen, she's a full on looney tune!
this is hysterical... SHE was responsible for the "getting back together" leaks. (& it's not the 1st time either.) after reports following hers, it was immediately leaked that brad is "rushing the divorce" & only NOW, is it being said that they are both on board with the divorce. she is so unbelievably see-thru. just like her constant pap strolls with the kids...& her numerous interviews...she is trying to re-write her reputation after the massive hit it took...plus, she knows that she just gets more attention when she brings up brad/the divorce. (let us not forget that she has a new flick to promote!)
She's been planting lie after lie about their reuniting and their great love, in order to try to distract people from that dreadful Vanity Fair article. She laughed about tasting orphans with food and money to get a dramatic reaction out of them for her film. That, plus working with the Cambodian Army and buying land from the Khmer Rouge is just more of the stuff she's trying to cover up. I LOVE that Pitt's team is refuting her lies.
Her PR is the same ilk as of the Kardashian's. Spread enough crap and people will start believing it. She's got issues and her method's of casting wont be forgotten. According to one of her minions Lainey Gossip, her film will be nominated for an Oscar. Sure, if they want to destroy any shread of believability they have.
She isn't a single mother. Brad is alive and wants to be part of his childrens lives. I can't imagine that he isn't paying money towards their keep, not that money would be a problem for either of them!
It's just more of her spin and pity-party PR. She is desperate to regain some reputation after the public saw through her.
Look at her exploiting those children and now claiming shes the bread winner? Excuse me? They have a FATHER too...who was a bigger bread winner than you and actually created a production company giving other families the ability to be bread winners; while you pretended to be a humanist when you actually picked easy causes to support that would keep away any scrutiny while you lined your pockets.
Shamelessly using the kids again. Now who is the abuser?
More lies. Lies about her own kids being abused and traumatized then covering up for what happened to the Cambodian kids on the set of her movie. Now the parental alienation of Brad by saying she's "the breadwinner of the family" like the kids don't have a loving supportive millionaire dad.
September 13, 2017
she is such a sick human being as far as family and her health and how she snows people.
Angelina is broken in many ways... i really don't think she's trying to snow people as Stellaj2 commented. She's a perfectionist in her career and trying hard to remain picture perfect herself because many HAVE put her on THAT pedestal. I really don't think she ever wanted to be there!
She had a big part in the difficulty of her life.
Women in the real world, not Angelina Jolie, give meaning to summit
She makes movies and doesn't care if people like her?!
If you're in the movie making business, you better care if people like you. She's a fool. Who the heck is going to see her films if no one likes her? She says she needs to work because she's the breadwinner... good luck making money when all your movies flop because you're so disliked.
It's creepy that she has absolutely no friends and she only needs her children?? Too much to put on your kids.
That's a massive burden to place on young children. Of course they'll always be faithful to their parents but they need a mother not a "best friend". It's seriously unhealthy that she doesn't have friends her own age!! No wonder things became difficult.
Your children should NOT be your friends... another dummy delusional mother... They are going to walk all over you one day.... you will see......that is what friends do NO?? IDIOT!!!!!
Women whose kids are their "best friends" are creating an unhealthy environment for children. Children hear to much and are asked to bear the burden of their mother's happiness. My mom emoted and shared way too much about her marital unhappiness when I was growing up. Only in adulthood did I realize the magnitude of the burden she placed on my small back that was not able to carry her issues and mine as well. Foolish Angelina. You are harming your kids.
I know I am a bit old fashioned...but your children are just that your children. They are not meant to be your friends and vice versa. They have their friends/you have your friends and you parent them...they are not meant to parent you. Sure you might when they get older think of them as pals etc....but they have at some point their own life to get on with.....JMO as always
And when it's time for them to leave? With this mentality, you then have nothing.
Please. Her attitude and crazy behavior pushed everyone away. One shouldn't want to be neat friends with their kids, you are their authority figure not their friend. Maybe this is the reason Brad flipped out and turned to alcohol cause he was the only adult in the house and thats a lot of stress.
She said in an interview before she didn't have many friends and that Brad was her best friend. It's a parent's responsibility to be a parent, not a child's best friend. Nor is it a child's responsibility to prop up their parent's ego and insecurities.
I'm not sociable by nature but I still have girlfriends even if I don't see them or talk to them often. I'm always suspicious of women who say they don't have any girlfriends. Those are the ones you need to keep away from. I know someone like this, she simpers and smiles for the guys but back stabs women all the time. Not trustworthy.
Angelna, your children don't need you to be their friend....they need you to be their mother....a parent...that's your job.
No "great parent" is best friends with their young children. They need to be parented. When they're adults, you transition into friendship.
It sounds like she has inappropriate expectations of her children.
As an off the charts BPD and narcissist, in her mind everything revolves around her and her needs. The poor children are just extensions of her ego, there to be used as she deems benefits her best. So was Brad, she's still using him now, to seek adulation for her film with the shady casting methods
Can't stand her. When she has 'health issues' she expects that her husband should stand by her and support her during her surgeries and recovery. But when HE has a health issue with regard to alcohol addiction, she files for divorce the next day, releases ALL the details to the press and grabs his kids and runs for the hills. Nicole Kidman and her husband had the same problems re alcohol but she didn't leave him, she supported him. And let's not forget Angelina didn't even want to seal the divorce documents although everybody could read everything about their kids etc. because she is a vengeful woman who is guilty of parental alienation. That's what she thinks families do to help each other and take care of one another?
Angelina needs to stop acting like the kids don't have a father. Sick behavior.
And that's exactly why we don't like you
She cares if people like her. She knows it's tied to the success of her film. As far as the kid statement. Very odd that she relies on them to get her through ordeals. Shouldn't it be the other way around?
It was her choice to alienate the kids from their father. I imagine they need just as much therapy from years of dealing with her volatile behavior.
Jolie acts like Brad doesn't exist, she's a very vengeful woman. I feel sorry for Brad and their children, can't be easy to deal/live with her.
She's on another 'I am a victim, please have sympathy with me' trip.
The poor kids, they have to be stronger than their mother so they can help her emotional and mental meltdown.
She's gotten her wish. Many don't like her. Feel sorry for the kids.
They are not your best friends. They are your children. End of. Go and get some best friends instead. Stop messing with their heads.
You don't need to be liked? Good, because you are not. You are a user and a taker. You are a destroyer of lives. You cannot be your children's friends until they are grown and on their own. You are destroying their lives now by trying to be their peer instead of their mother, the loving authority figure who sets limits. But you don't have any limits. You don't care about consequences. Your poor children will be crippled by you.
Like mother like daughter, her mother trained her well. Both are mental, bitter divorced single mother.
Never have liked her. Now I know why.
Of course she cares, considering she's talking. Btw someone give her a burger.
Raising your children as your friends is why so many children grow up with bad attitudes and everything else.
She lies
Brad is a saint for tolerating this crazy woman for 12 years.
No wonder she drags her children everywhere with her. She needs their support 24/7. She is the weakest link in this family.
I cant bear to see her without Brad still believe they were each others great love. so sad for that family.
I feel sorry for her for just one reason in that she doesn't understand irony.
Your interview for the New York Times made me laugh. I wonder how much you can lie? Until you finally achieve the result? You're just a pathetic liar and manipulator. Unbroken victim Angelina Jolie. Who will buy this? Yes, your fans who have not gone far from you. Its all garbage. And conscious people understand this ....
God she's just gone way too skinny, beautiful but pure skin and bones.
The angie loons are back out in force I see
Don't care how she looks, she is fake woman and hypocrite.
She has a pretty face but looks older than 42.
She looks 50+ in the pics where she walks down the stairs.
Looks like she could break her hip just walking down the stairs
This woman has always been mentally unstable. Her father tried to get her proper help when she was younger and into heroin, self harm, a sexual relationship with her brother, etc... she refused the help and dropped her last name to spite him. I realize that she's a beautiful woman, but Brad should have know what he was getting into with this woman. She's a nut. It's no wonder he turned to drinking.( not excusing him) There's no doubt she's difficult to live with, she lets the kids run wild, do as they please. the oldest, Maddox, is obsessed with knives, she lets him do as he pleases. She also looks malnourished, living on cigarettes and coffee... this woman needs major mental help.
Sounds nuts that he would show concern after split but it would make his life much more happier if her focus isnt on who he’s with but who she has too. Food for thought.
Too bad Angie let that nice lady get away. It was weird seeing my comment displayed here while someone borrowed my words (oh dear)
He’s better off without her.
This woman sounds so exhausting, I’m not surprised that he kept drinking when he was with her. She’s one complicated, spoiled HW br at.
Who cares what that hateful bi tch says or does, he’s single, he can do what he wants.
After 12-13 years with Angelina “It’s never my fault, I’m a perfect saint” Jolie, Brad is allowed to have fun
Those poor little rich kids will need weekly therapy until they’re 30.
Anorexia Jolie will be jealous when he’s dating again, that’s just the way she is. She hates not being in control. It’ll be hard for her to find another partner – no sane man wants to date a crazy skeleton and her unruly brood.
I can imagine that jealous, possessive, insane Jolie will be stamping her feet, gnashing her teeth, screaming when he has a new girlfriend. This control freak/narcissist doesn’t want Pitt anymore, but she also doesn’t want any other woman to have him; can’t stand to see him happy with anyone but her loony self.
Would love to see Brad settle down with a down to earth non Hollywood type. I think that would be really good for him.
She needs to move on… Get a life…
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie dismiss persistent reunion reports? Are you talking about those articles that YOU wrote about it? Don't worry, we know they will divorce. This tabloid is a joke.
Of course Brad doesn't want to get back with this miserable and vile woman.
It's reported that Brad now he has had the operation to remove his brain that the divorce was a wrong decision and he wants to reconcile
dont go back to her Brad she'll suck the life out of you.
What did he expect would happen, she's a full on looney tune!
this is hysterical... SHE was responsible for the "getting back together" leaks. (& it's not the 1st time either.) after reports following hers, it was immediately leaked that brad is "rushing the divorce" & only NOW, is it being said that they are both on board with the divorce. she is so unbelievably see-thru. just like her constant pap strolls with the kids...& her numerous interviews...she is trying to re-write her reputation after the massive hit it took...plus, she knows that she just gets more attention when she brings up brad/the divorce. (let us not forget that she has a new flick to promote!)
She's been planting lie after lie about their reuniting and their great love, in order to try to distract people from that dreadful Vanity Fair article. She laughed about tasting orphans with food and money to get a dramatic reaction out of them for her film. That, plus working with the Cambodian Army and buying land from the Khmer Rouge is just more of the stuff she's trying to cover up. I LOVE that Pitt's team is refuting her lies.
Her PR is the same ilk as of the Kardashian's. Spread enough crap and people will start believing it. She's got issues and her method's of casting wont be forgotten. According to one of her minions Lainey Gossip, her film will be nominated for an Oscar. Sure, if they want to destroy any shread of believability they have.
She isn't a single mother. Brad is alive and wants to be part of his childrens lives. I can't imagine that he isn't paying money towards their keep, not that money would be a problem for either of them!
It's just more of her spin and pity-party PR. She is desperate to regain some reputation after the public saw through her.
Look at her exploiting those children and now claiming shes the bread winner? Excuse me? They have a FATHER too...who was a bigger bread winner than you and actually created a production company giving other families the ability to be bread winners; while you pretended to be a humanist when you actually picked easy causes to support that would keep away any scrutiny while you lined your pockets.
Shamelessly using the kids again. Now who is the abuser?
More lies. Lies about her own kids being abused and traumatized then covering up for what happened to the Cambodian kids on the set of her movie. Now the parental alienation of Brad by saying she's "the breadwinner of the family" like the kids don't have a loving supportive millionaire dad.
September 13, 2017
she is such a sick human being as far as family and her health and how she snows people.
Angelina is broken in many ways... i really don't think she's trying to snow people as Stellaj2 commented. She's a perfectionist in her career and trying hard to remain picture perfect herself because many HAVE put her on THAT pedestal. I really don't think she ever wanted to be there!
She had a big part in the difficulty of her life.
Women in the real world, not Angelina Jolie, give meaning to summit
She makes movies and doesn't care if people like her?!
If you're in the movie making business, you better care if people like you. She's a fool. Who the heck is going to see her films if no one likes her? She says she needs to work because she's the breadwinner... good luck making money when all your movies flop because you're so disliked.
It's creepy that she has absolutely no friends and she only needs her children?? Too much to put on your kids.
That's a massive burden to place on young children. Of course they'll always be faithful to their parents but they need a mother not a "best friend". It's seriously unhealthy that she doesn't have friends her own age!! No wonder things became difficult.
Your children should NOT be your friends... another dummy delusional mother... They are going to walk all over you one day.... you will see......that is what friends do NO?? IDIOT!!!!!
Women whose kids are their "best friends" are creating an unhealthy environment for children. Children hear to much and are asked to bear the burden of their mother's happiness. My mom emoted and shared way too much about her marital unhappiness when I was growing up. Only in adulthood did I realize the magnitude of the burden she placed on my small back that was not able to carry her issues and mine as well. Foolish Angelina. You are harming your kids.
I know I am a bit old fashioned...but your children are just that your children. They are not meant to be your friends and vice versa. They have their friends/you have your friends and you parent them...they are not meant to parent you. Sure you might when they get older think of them as pals etc....but they have at some point their own life to get on with.....JMO as always
And when it's time for them to leave? With this mentality, you then have nothing.
Please. Her attitude and crazy behavior pushed everyone away. One shouldn't want to be neat friends with their kids, you are their authority figure not their friend. Maybe this is the reason Brad flipped out and turned to alcohol cause he was the only adult in the house and thats a lot of stress.
She said in an interview before she didn't have many friends and that Brad was her best friend. It's a parent's responsibility to be a parent, not a child's best friend. Nor is it a child's responsibility to prop up their parent's ego and insecurities.
I'm not sociable by nature but I still have girlfriends even if I don't see them or talk to them often. I'm always suspicious of women who say they don't have any girlfriends. Those are the ones you need to keep away from. I know someone like this, she simpers and smiles for the guys but back stabs women all the time. Not trustworthy.
Angelna, your children don't need you to be their friend....they need you to be their mother....a parent...that's your job.
No "great parent" is best friends with their young children. They need to be parented. When they're adults, you transition into friendship.
It sounds like she has inappropriate expectations of her children.
As an off the charts BPD and narcissist, in her mind everything revolves around her and her needs. The poor children are just extensions of her ego, there to be used as she deems benefits her best. So was Brad, she's still using him now, to seek adulation for her film with the shady casting methods
Can't stand her. When she has 'health issues' she expects that her husband should stand by her and support her during her surgeries and recovery. But when HE has a health issue with regard to alcohol addiction, she files for divorce the next day, releases ALL the details to the press and grabs his kids and runs for the hills. Nicole Kidman and her husband had the same problems re alcohol but she didn't leave him, she supported him. And let's not forget Angelina didn't even want to seal the divorce documents although everybody could read everything about their kids etc. because she is a vengeful woman who is guilty of parental alienation. That's what she thinks families do to help each other and take care of one another?
Angelina needs to stop acting like the kids don't have a father. Sick behavior.
And that's exactly why we don't like you
She cares if people like her. She knows it's tied to the success of her film. As far as the kid statement. Very odd that she relies on them to get her through ordeals. Shouldn't it be the other way around?
It was her choice to alienate the kids from their father. I imagine they need just as much therapy from years of dealing with her volatile behavior.
Jolie acts like Brad doesn't exist, she's a very vengeful woman. I feel sorry for Brad and their children, can't be easy to deal/live with her.
She's on another 'I am a victim, please have sympathy with me' trip.
The poor kids, they have to be stronger than their mother so they can help her emotional and mental meltdown.
She's gotten her wish. Many don't like her. Feel sorry for the kids.
They are not your best friends. They are your children. End of. Go and get some best friends instead. Stop messing with their heads.
You don't need to be liked? Good, because you are not. You are a user and a taker. You are a destroyer of lives. You cannot be your children's friends until they are grown and on their own. You are destroying their lives now by trying to be their peer instead of their mother, the loving authority figure who sets limits. But you don't have any limits. You don't care about consequences. Your poor children will be crippled by you.
Like mother like daughter, her mother trained her well. Both are mental, bitter divorced single mother.
Never have liked her. Now I know why.
Of course she cares, considering she's talking. Btw someone give her a burger.
Raising your children as your friends is why so many children grow up with bad attitudes and everything else.
She lies
Brad is a saint for tolerating this crazy woman for 12 years.
No wonder she drags her children everywhere with her. She needs their support 24/7. She is the weakest link in this family.
I cant bear to see her without Brad still believe they were each others great love. so sad for that family.
I feel sorry for her for just one reason in that she doesn't understand irony.
Your interview for the New York Times made me laugh. I wonder how much you can lie? Until you finally achieve the result? You're just a pathetic liar and manipulator. Unbroken victim Angelina Jolie. Who will buy this? Yes, your fans who have not gone far from you. Its all garbage. And conscious people understand this ....
God she's just gone way too skinny, beautiful but pure skin and bones.
The angie loons are back out in force I see
Don't care how she looks, she is fake woman and hypocrite.
She has a pretty face but looks older than 42.
She looks 50+ in the pics where she walks down the stairs.
Looks like she could break her hip just walking down the stairs
This woman has always been mentally unstable. Her father tried to get her proper help when she was younger and into heroin, self harm, a sexual relationship with her brother, etc... she refused the help and dropped her last name to spite him. I realize that she's a beautiful woman, but Brad should have know what he was getting into with this woman. She's a nut. It's no wonder he turned to drinking.( not excusing him) There's no doubt she's difficult to live with, she lets the kids run wild, do as they please. the oldest, Maddox, is obsessed with knives, she lets him do as he pleases. She also looks malnourished, living on cigarettes and coffee... this woman needs major mental help.
Saturday, July 8, 2017
Brad Pitt Looks Great In a Dirty T-shirt and Jeans Because Life Isn't Fair
BY JAKE WOOLF
July 06,2017
Pitt still looks as good as ever, even with a case of bedhead and an unkempt beard.
Brad Pitt is handsome. This is simply a fact of life. It's like saying the sky is blue or Mountain Dew Code Red is terrible. But not only is Pitt's name equated with the pinnacle of American (global?) male handsomeness, it's been tethered to it for the past twenty-five years—and it doesn't look like that status quo is changing anytime soon.
In Pitt's epic GQ Style cover shoot, 52-year-old Hollywood superstar opened up about his recent personal struggles and how he was spending his free time making sculptures in a private art studio (and listening to a whole lot of Frank Ocean) to cope. Just a few days ago, the actor was spotted leaving his studio in a wrinkled, dirty white T-shirt, beat-up jeans, Chelsea boots—and sporting a rather severe case of bed head. It may be unfair, but the man looked good, certainly better than any average Joe would (movie stars, they're most definitely not like us).
Due to some highly scientific research conducted in GQ's offices in the past 15 minutes, we can confirm that women, gay men, and enough secure-with-themselves straight men don't just tolerate Sloppy Brad Pitt™—they think he's actually hotter than usual.
It's a revelation that's both understandable and patently unfair. This half-messy, half-rugged look oozes the kind of laid-back masculinity that guys like Steve McQueen, Robert Redford, Harrison Ford, and Paul Newman (the leading man Mount Rushmore) built their careers off of. It's also highly unattainable for someone like myself who needs to spend a large chunky of time putting every single unruly hair on my head in place and shaving just to appear presentable to other humans outside my apartment.
And grooming aside, Pitt's outfit is the sartorial equivalent of a Ronaldo ab flex on Instagram. On me, a dirty white T-shirt tucked into jeans ensures that every part of my body I don't want to highlight is the first thing you see. When I wear a white tee tucked into jeans, I don't look like a megastar leaving an art studio, I look like I just finished eating my way through endless riblets at Applebee's—alone. Even a guy like John Mayer has to spice up a T-shirt and jeans with a cool necklace to make it seem special. But when you're Brad Pitt, a messy head of hair, unkempt goatee, and tucked in T-shirt make add some old school cowboy swagger to your look. When you're a regular guy, it looks like you just got done staining a deck (decidedly not the same thing).
The answer here is that copping Pitt's look is obviously acceptable—after all we're talking about fitted white T-shirts, washed slim jeans and brown Chelsea boots—but for all of the non-Pitts of the world, a little hair product, a shave, and some bleach go a long way.
credit: GQ
July 06,2017
Pitt still looks as good as ever, even with a case of bedhead and an unkempt beard.
Brad Pitt is handsome. This is simply a fact of life. It's like saying the sky is blue or Mountain Dew Code Red is terrible. But not only is Pitt's name equated with the pinnacle of American (global?) male handsomeness, it's been tethered to it for the past twenty-five years—and it doesn't look like that status quo is changing anytime soon.
In Pitt's epic GQ Style cover shoot, 52-year-old Hollywood superstar opened up about his recent personal struggles and how he was spending his free time making sculptures in a private art studio (and listening to a whole lot of Frank Ocean) to cope. Just a few days ago, the actor was spotted leaving his studio in a wrinkled, dirty white T-shirt, beat-up jeans, Chelsea boots—and sporting a rather severe case of bed head. It may be unfair, but the man looked good, certainly better than any average Joe would (movie stars, they're most definitely not like us).
Due to some highly scientific research conducted in GQ's offices in the past 15 minutes, we can confirm that women, gay men, and enough secure-with-themselves straight men don't just tolerate Sloppy Brad Pitt™—they think he's actually hotter than usual.
It's a revelation that's both understandable and patently unfair. This half-messy, half-rugged look oozes the kind of laid-back masculinity that guys like Steve McQueen, Robert Redford, Harrison Ford, and Paul Newman (the leading man Mount Rushmore) built their careers off of. It's also highly unattainable for someone like myself who needs to spend a large chunky of time putting every single unruly hair on my head in place and shaving just to appear presentable to other humans outside my apartment.
And grooming aside, Pitt's outfit is the sartorial equivalent of a Ronaldo ab flex on Instagram. On me, a dirty white T-shirt tucked into jeans ensures that every part of my body I don't want to highlight is the first thing you see. When I wear a white tee tucked into jeans, I don't look like a megastar leaving an art studio, I look like I just finished eating my way through endless riblets at Applebee's—alone. Even a guy like John Mayer has to spice up a T-shirt and jeans with a cool necklace to make it seem special. But when you're Brad Pitt, a messy head of hair, unkempt goatee, and tucked in T-shirt make add some old school cowboy swagger to your look. When you're a regular guy, it looks like you just got done staining a deck (decidedly not the same thing).
The answer here is that copping Pitt's look is obviously acceptable—after all we're talking about fitted white T-shirts, washed slim jeans and brown Chelsea boots—but for all of the non-Pitts of the world, a little hair product, a shave, and some bleach go a long way.
credit: GQ
Brad Pitt Wears Nothing but a Tee and Jeans, Makes Our Mouths Water
BY: JONATHAN BORGE
JULY 7, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
If a guy can make you do a double-take while dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, he’s got it going on. There's just something about the way the tee clings. A pec here, a veiny bicep there. Maybe a bit of dad bod peeking through.
Such is the case with Brad Pitt. Yes, Brad Pitt and all things hunky are synonymous. However, the actor looked impressively charming Thursday in Los Angeles, when he did nothing but step outside holding a cup of iced coffee. First of all, this guy is 53. So let that settle in. Age is nothing but a number, but this dude looks to be about 34.
Back to our main point: He wore a loose-fitting scoop-neck blue tee that, thanks to the wind, gave us a glimpse of his beefy torso. His half-tuck shows he cares about style. The jeans? They were kind of low-rise and reminded us of the early 2000s, but man did they look great on him. Those boots screamed, “I’m 53 and I’ll wear these boots for the rest of time,” and the glasses were just plain classic.
As for his other great accessory? That salt and pepper beard. Let’s not forget to take note of the way he closes the door behind him. So much confidence. So much chutzpah!
You’ve still got it, Brad.
credit: INSTYLE
JULY 7, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
If a guy can make you do a double-take while dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, he’s got it going on. There's just something about the way the tee clings. A pec here, a veiny bicep there. Maybe a bit of dad bod peeking through.
Such is the case with Brad Pitt. Yes, Brad Pitt and all things hunky are synonymous. However, the actor looked impressively charming Thursday in Los Angeles, when he did nothing but step outside holding a cup of iced coffee. First of all, this guy is 53. So let that settle in. Age is nothing but a number, but this dude looks to be about 34.
Back to our main point: He wore a loose-fitting scoop-neck blue tee that, thanks to the wind, gave us a glimpse of his beefy torso. His half-tuck shows he cares about style. The jeans? They were kind of low-rise and reminded us of the early 2000s, but man did they look great on him. Those boots screamed, “I’m 53 and I’ll wear these boots for the rest of time,” and the glasses were just plain classic.
As for his other great accessory? That salt and pepper beard. Let’s not forget to take note of the way he closes the door behind him. So much confidence. So much chutzpah!
You’ve still got it, Brad.
credit: INSTYLE
Sunday, July 2, 2017
Viewpoint: Why we all need to watch Brad Pitt's film War Machine
By Ahmed Rashid
Lahore
2 July 2017
The longest war the US has ever fought - 16 years and counting - is about to get longer as President Donald Trump decides on sending several thousand more troops to Afghanistan.
As with the wars in the Middle East, Afghanistan highlights the difficult political choices and counter-insurgency strategies the US has been pursuing fruitlessly since 9/11. Today six Muslim countries (Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Afghanistan) are in a state of meltdown - partly as a result of US policies.
The "war on terror" launched by President George Bush, the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the conflicting policies of carrying out regime change in the midst of an ever-expanding Islamist extremist opposition have all created greater dilemmas for the US.
Since 9/11 there have been many good books and documentary films made about these dilemmas. Yet in all this time Hollywood has been unable to produce a movie that informs or educates the average movie-goer as to the bigger picture on why failure persists and jihadism spreads.
The few Hollywood films made about America's wars tend to be either satires or action movies in the John Wayne mould, showing US troops as heroic and caring but professional killers.
An exception was the 2008 film Hurt Locker, which won six Oscars and depicted the dilemmas faced by a US Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit in Iraq. But even Hurt Locker dealt with only a slice of the problem, as did otherwise well-made documentaries about US forces in Afghanistan such as Restrepo and Korengal.
Hollywood movies do not ask the difficult strategic questions.
Should the US invade or interfere in countries it knows little about, how do US troops win over local support, is nation building and promotion of democracy feasible by one part of the US government while another part pursues a war strategy? Can the US ever understand tribal societies through the barrel of a gun?
Hollywood has left us devoid of any understanding of the escalating global chaos.
That is until now. A remarkable new film, War Machine starring Brad Pitt, which at first whiff sounds like a gonzo-type war movie, brilliantly portrays these themes outlined above. David Michod, the Australian writer and director, and Netflix have made a movie that is both dark and satirical, emotional and belly-laugh funny, as well as being educative about US interventions.
The script is based on the Rolling Stone magazine article and subsequent book The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan, by the late journalist Michael Hastings.
His article led to the 2010 sacking of Stanley McChrystal, the US general in charge of the war in Afghanistan, after he and his staff officers made disparaging remarks about President Barack Obama to the journalist. The movie tells the story leading up to Gen McChrystal's dismissal.
The casting of Pitt as Gen Glen McMahon, the imagined McChrystal who is beloved by his men but also full of comic eccentrics, is near perfect. Pitt plays his role partly as absurdist comedy but also as someone who is on a steep learning curve on how to win or lose modern wars.
Full of bluster and self confidence Gen McMahon arrives to take charge in Kabul after another general had failed. "Let's go win this thing," and "Let's knock this on the head," he tells his military aides - a coterie of equally brilliant actors whose cameos act as foils for Gen McMahon's slow realisation that he is only repeating what other generals before him have tried and failed to do.
Gen McMahon cannot get the additional US troops he needs because Mr Obama is reluctant to send any. Gen McMahon cannot stop Afghan farmers from growing poppy because, officials tell him alternative crops like cotton would be competing with US farmers.
Fellow Nato officers teach Gen McMahon a new reality. "You can't build a nation at gunpoint" and "you can't win the trust of a country by invading it", he is told.
A cynical President Hamid Karzai, superbly played by Ben Kingsley (with all of Mr Karzai's habitual tics), hears out Gen McMahon describing how he will mark out a new direction. "We will build Afghanistan into a free and prosperous nation," says Gen McMahon. "Sounds a lot like the old direction," Mr Karzai replies with a knowing smile.
Several dark yet truthful encounters speed up Gen McMahon's understanding. A troubled and angry US marine played by Lakeith Stanfield questions how his contradictory strategy can work. Trained to kill, the marines is now told he must show "courageous restraint".
"I can't tell the difference between the people and the enemy," says the marine. "They all look alike to me. We can't help them and kill them at the same time. I am confused," he states.
Actress Tilda Swinton, playing a German politician, tells Gen McMahon that "you are spread all over the country and fighting 1,000 separate battles with local people who don't want you in their villages and that is a war you will never win". The general is gobsmacked into silence.
The film will not get a wide cinema release because it is showing on Netflix. However, this is a film that should particularly be shown at universities and colleges, and discussed amongst young and old.
It helps us understand why counter-insurgency is failing, terrorism expanding and why wars have destroyed so many countries. It helps explain why after 16 years Washington is still debating troop numbers.
not mine.credit and source: BBC
Lahore
2 July 2017
The longest war the US has ever fought - 16 years and counting - is about to get longer as President Donald Trump decides on sending several thousand more troops to Afghanistan.
As with the wars in the Middle East, Afghanistan highlights the difficult political choices and counter-insurgency strategies the US has been pursuing fruitlessly since 9/11. Today six Muslim countries (Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Afghanistan) are in a state of meltdown - partly as a result of US policies.
The "war on terror" launched by President George Bush, the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the conflicting policies of carrying out regime change in the midst of an ever-expanding Islamist extremist opposition have all created greater dilemmas for the US.
Since 9/11 there have been many good books and documentary films made about these dilemmas. Yet in all this time Hollywood has been unable to produce a movie that informs or educates the average movie-goer as to the bigger picture on why failure persists and jihadism spreads.
The few Hollywood films made about America's wars tend to be either satires or action movies in the John Wayne mould, showing US troops as heroic and caring but professional killers.
An exception was the 2008 film Hurt Locker, which won six Oscars and depicted the dilemmas faced by a US Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit in Iraq. But even Hurt Locker dealt with only a slice of the problem, as did otherwise well-made documentaries about US forces in Afghanistan such as Restrepo and Korengal.
Hollywood movies do not ask the difficult strategic questions.
Should the US invade or interfere in countries it knows little about, how do US troops win over local support, is nation building and promotion of democracy feasible by one part of the US government while another part pursues a war strategy? Can the US ever understand tribal societies through the barrel of a gun?
Hollywood has left us devoid of any understanding of the escalating global chaos.
That is until now. A remarkable new film, War Machine starring Brad Pitt, which at first whiff sounds like a gonzo-type war movie, brilliantly portrays these themes outlined above. David Michod, the Australian writer and director, and Netflix have made a movie that is both dark and satirical, emotional and belly-laugh funny, as well as being educative about US interventions.
The script is based on the Rolling Stone magazine article and subsequent book The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan, by the late journalist Michael Hastings.
His article led to the 2010 sacking of Stanley McChrystal, the US general in charge of the war in Afghanistan, after he and his staff officers made disparaging remarks about President Barack Obama to the journalist. The movie tells the story leading up to Gen McChrystal's dismissal.
The casting of Pitt as Gen Glen McMahon, the imagined McChrystal who is beloved by his men but also full of comic eccentrics, is near perfect. Pitt plays his role partly as absurdist comedy but also as someone who is on a steep learning curve on how to win or lose modern wars.
Full of bluster and self confidence Gen McMahon arrives to take charge in Kabul after another general had failed. "Let's go win this thing," and "Let's knock this on the head," he tells his military aides - a coterie of equally brilliant actors whose cameos act as foils for Gen McMahon's slow realisation that he is only repeating what other generals before him have tried and failed to do.
Gen McMahon cannot get the additional US troops he needs because Mr Obama is reluctant to send any. Gen McMahon cannot stop Afghan farmers from growing poppy because, officials tell him alternative crops like cotton would be competing with US farmers.
Fellow Nato officers teach Gen McMahon a new reality. "You can't build a nation at gunpoint" and "you can't win the trust of a country by invading it", he is told.
A cynical President Hamid Karzai, superbly played by Ben Kingsley (with all of Mr Karzai's habitual tics), hears out Gen McMahon describing how he will mark out a new direction. "We will build Afghanistan into a free and prosperous nation," says Gen McMahon. "Sounds a lot like the old direction," Mr Karzai replies with a knowing smile.
Several dark yet truthful encounters speed up Gen McMahon's understanding. A troubled and angry US marine played by Lakeith Stanfield questions how his contradictory strategy can work. Trained to kill, the marines is now told he must show "courageous restraint".
"I can't tell the difference between the people and the enemy," says the marine. "They all look alike to me. We can't help them and kill them at the same time. I am confused," he states.
Actress Tilda Swinton, playing a German politician, tells Gen McMahon that "you are spread all over the country and fighting 1,000 separate battles with local people who don't want you in their villages and that is a war you will never win". The general is gobsmacked into silence.
The film will not get a wide cinema release because it is showing on Netflix. However, this is a film that should particularly be shown at universities and colleges, and discussed amongst young and old.
It helps us understand why counter-insurgency is failing, terrorism expanding and why wars have destroyed so many countries. It helps explain why after 16 years Washington is still debating troop numbers.
not mine.credit and source: BBC
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Topher Grace thinks Brad Pitt's making all the great films now
By Matt Prigge
Published : May 19, 2017
Topher Grace has had a crazy career. He could have been Eric Foreman, his deadpanning “That ’70s Show” everydude, forever. Instead, he’s always taken roles that broke away from that type. He was an entitled rich kid druggie in “Traffic.” He was a comic book villain in “Spider-Man 3.” He was a bureaucratic baddie in “Predators.” Now he’s a douchey press advisor stationed in Afghanistan in “War Machine.” Brad Pitt both produced the satirical comedy and stars as a character based on disgraced General Stanley McChrystal, who was sent to America’s other recent big war to sort out the counter-insurgency. What he found was a hot mess not even the mightiest of military brass could fix.
When he talked to Grace, 38, he didn’t only talk about “War Machine” or Brad Pitt. He nerded out over one of our faves, "Mr. Show."
I’m really glad you recently tweeted about Pit-Pat, from one of my favorite “Mr. Show” sketches the other day.
I was positive when I posted it that a very small percentage of people would get it, but those people would really love it.
I’m probably one of about 20 people who got it and loved it.
I actually went to a taping of it back in the day. It’s the one that starts in the Playboy Club. I remember, I was just starting to get that style of humor. I’ve met Bob Odenkirk on a couple occasions and he’s a god. He’s very giving. He understands that for a generation he’s the guy. He once said to me, because I was nerding out on him, “You know, I had the same thing with Monty Python.” He would have died if he’d bumped into John Cleese.
You haven’t yourself done sketch comedy, though, apart from hosting “Saturday Night Live” back in 2005.
I remember feeling like, ‘Oh, I’m not very good at sketch comedy!’ [Laughs] It’s a real skill. I really gained more respect for people who have it. Like Melissa McCarthy, who can just go in there and nail it. When I was on there I just wound up playing the normal guy in every sketch — the guy who’s setting up another character. Which I was totally fine with, because I’m not good at that stuff.
You don’t think you can do wacky characters?
No. When I arrived there on the first day, when they read through all the sketches, I realized, ‘This isn’t really my jam.’ I was on a sitcom, but even there I enjoyed the quieter moments a little more. But if you look at Bob Odenkirk, he’s someone who’s great at both. I can’t even imagine how to do that. In that new “Bob & David” thing [the “Mr. Show” reunion show from Netflix], they did this sketch where Bob’s a bible salesman. And he was combining real AMC drama-level stuff with outlandish comedy. My hat’s off to anyone who can do both.
“War Machine”’s funny, too, but not in a wacky way. It’s more satirical.
This is a different kind of funny. It’s not “ha ha funny.” It’s “this is happening this week” ironic-funny. It’s hard to do something like this, an account of what really happened, without humor. But David Michod [the writer/director] had the balls to sugarcoat the pill. That’s a great way to get more people to take a look at something they should have more information about. Me included. I kind of remember when General McChrystal was fired, but I didn’t enough about it or about the counter-insurgency.
I always worry movies like “War Machine” won’t be seen or even made. It’s a big-budget movie that’s not about superheroes, and it almost certainly only exists because Brad Pitt took it to Netflix himself.
Brad’s really smart. His company is producing all the great films right now, including “Moonlight” and “The Big Short” and “12 Years a Slave.” Since we made the film, more actors are going to Netflix. But Brad was smart to do it first. I don’t think it would have been made or been seen otherwise. Now it’s something you can watch. And it sparks conversation. When I saw it with my representatives and my wife, we all started talking afterwards. It’s one of those films.
not mine.credit and source: METRO US
Published : May 19, 2017
Topher Grace has had a crazy career. He could have been Eric Foreman, his deadpanning “That ’70s Show” everydude, forever. Instead, he’s always taken roles that broke away from that type. He was an entitled rich kid druggie in “Traffic.” He was a comic book villain in “Spider-Man 3.” He was a bureaucratic baddie in “Predators.” Now he’s a douchey press advisor stationed in Afghanistan in “War Machine.” Brad Pitt both produced the satirical comedy and stars as a character based on disgraced General Stanley McChrystal, who was sent to America’s other recent big war to sort out the counter-insurgency. What he found was a hot mess not even the mightiest of military brass could fix.
When he talked to Grace, 38, he didn’t only talk about “War Machine” or Brad Pitt. He nerded out over one of our faves, "Mr. Show."
I’m really glad you recently tweeted about Pit-Pat, from one of my favorite “Mr. Show” sketches the other day.
I was positive when I posted it that a very small percentage of people would get it, but those people would really love it.
I’m probably one of about 20 people who got it and loved it.
I actually went to a taping of it back in the day. It’s the one that starts in the Playboy Club. I remember, I was just starting to get that style of humor. I’ve met Bob Odenkirk on a couple occasions and he’s a god. He’s very giving. He understands that for a generation he’s the guy. He once said to me, because I was nerding out on him, “You know, I had the same thing with Monty Python.” He would have died if he’d bumped into John Cleese.
You haven’t yourself done sketch comedy, though, apart from hosting “Saturday Night Live” back in 2005.
I remember feeling like, ‘Oh, I’m not very good at sketch comedy!’ [Laughs] It’s a real skill. I really gained more respect for people who have it. Like Melissa McCarthy, who can just go in there and nail it. When I was on there I just wound up playing the normal guy in every sketch — the guy who’s setting up another character. Which I was totally fine with, because I’m not good at that stuff.
You don’t think you can do wacky characters?
No. When I arrived there on the first day, when they read through all the sketches, I realized, ‘This isn’t really my jam.’ I was on a sitcom, but even there I enjoyed the quieter moments a little more. But if you look at Bob Odenkirk, he’s someone who’s great at both. I can’t even imagine how to do that. In that new “Bob & David” thing [the “Mr. Show” reunion show from Netflix], they did this sketch where Bob’s a bible salesman. And he was combining real AMC drama-level stuff with outlandish comedy. My hat’s off to anyone who can do both.
“War Machine”’s funny, too, but not in a wacky way. It’s more satirical.
This is a different kind of funny. It’s not “ha ha funny.” It’s “this is happening this week” ironic-funny. It’s hard to do something like this, an account of what really happened, without humor. But David Michod [the writer/director] had the balls to sugarcoat the pill. That’s a great way to get more people to take a look at something they should have more information about. Me included. I kind of remember when General McChrystal was fired, but I didn’t enough about it or about the counter-insurgency.
I always worry movies like “War Machine” won’t be seen or even made. It’s a big-budget movie that’s not about superheroes, and it almost certainly only exists because Brad Pitt took it to Netflix himself.
Brad’s really smart. His company is producing all the great films right now, including “Moonlight” and “The Big Short” and “12 Years a Slave.” Since we made the film, more actors are going to Netflix. But Brad was smart to do it first. I don’t think it would have been made or been seen otherwise. Now it’s something you can watch. And it sparks conversation. When I saw it with my representatives and my wife, we all started talking afterwards. It’s one of those films.
not mine.credit and source: METRO US
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Brad Pitt Talks Divorce, Quitting Drinking, and Becoming a Better Man
BY MICHAEL PATERNITI
May 03, 2017
Brad Pitt is making matcha green tea on a cool morning in his old Craftsman in the Hollywood Hills, where he's lived since 1994. There have been other properties in other places—including a château in France and homes in New Orleans and New York City—but this has always been his kids' “childhood home,” he says. And even though they're not here now, he's decided it's important that he is. Today the place is deeply silent, except for the snoring of his bulldog, Jacques.
Pitt wears a flannel shirt and skinny jeans that hang loose on his frame. Invisible to the eye is that sculpted bulk we've seen on film for a quarter-century. He looks like an L.A. dad on a juice cleanse, gearing up to do house projects. On the counter sit some plated goodies from Starbucks, which he doesn't touch, and some coffee, which he does. Pitt, who exudes likability, general decency, and a sense of humor (dark and a little cockeyed), says he's really gotten into making matcha lately, something a friend introduced him to. He loves the whole ritual of it. He deliberately sprinkles some green powder in a cup with a sifter, then pours in the boiling water, whisking with a bamboo brush, until the liquid is a harlequin froth. “You're gonna love this,” he says, handing me the cup.
Serenity, balance, order: That's the vibe, at least. That's what you think you're feeling in the kitchen of Brad Pitt's perfectly constructed, awesomely decorated abode. Outside, children's bikes are lined up in the rack; a blown-up dragon floatie bobs on the pool through the window. From the sideboard, with its exquisite inlay, to the vase on the mantel, the house exudes care and intention. And it carries its own stories, not just about when the Jolie-Pitts were a happy family, but also from back in the day, when Jimi Hendrix crashed here. It's said he wrote “May This Be Love” out in the grotto, with its waterfall (Waterfall / Nothing can harm me at all…). “I don't know if it's true,” says Pitt, “but a hippie came by and said he used to drop acid with Jim back there, so I run with the story.”
And yet Pitt is the first one to acknowledge that it's been chaos these past six months, during what he calls a “weird” time. In conversation, he seems absolutely locked in one moment and a little twitchy and forlorn in the next, having been put on a journey he didn't intend to make but admits was “self-inflicted.” The unfortunate worst of it surfaced in public this past September. When he was on a flight to Los Angeles aboard a private plane, there was a reported altercation between Pitt and one of his six children, 15-year-old Maddox. An anonymous phone call was made to the authorities, which triggered an FBI investigation (ultimately closed with no charges). Five days later, his wife, Angelina Jolie, filed for divorce. By then, everything in Pitt's world was in free fall. It wasn't just a public-relations crisis—there was a father suddenly deprived of his kids, a husband without wife. And here he is, alone, a 53-year-old human father/former husband smack in the middle of an unraveled life, figuring out how to mend it back together.
And yet the enterprise known as Brad Pitt inexorably carries on. In November, the movie Allied came out, starring Pitt and Marion Cotillard. At the premiere he was described as “gaunt,” and rumors of an affair with Cotillard, and an on-set encounter between her and Jolie, had been so virulent that Cotillard took to social media to deny them, underscoring her love for her own partner, with whom she was pregnant with their second child. Meanwhile, Pitt's production company, Plan B Entertainment, found itself winning an astonishing third Oscar for Best Picture, with Moonlight. (Pitt spent the Oscars ceremony at a friend's house.) This month Netflix will release Pitt's War Machine, a satire based on the incidents surrounding the firing of General Stanley McChrystal. In the film, he plays a gruff, ascetic stand-in for McChrystal, General Glen McMahon, with both big-gestured comic panache and an oblivious unknowingness that seems to be a metaphor for the entire American war effort.
But on this overcast spring morning, catching Pitt at this flexion point, I would say he seems more like one of those stripped-down Samuel Beckett characters, in a blank landscape, asking big questions of a futile world. Even the generalities he employs for protection seem metaphoric. (He mentioned his estranged wife's name only once, when referencing her Cambodia movie, First They Killed My Father, telling me, “You should see Angie's film.”) The loneliness of this new life, he said, is mitigated by Jacques, who spent most of the interview beached in a narcoleptic reverie at my feet, snoring and farting. (“Did you ever have the uncle that came over with emphysema, and had to sleep in your room when you were 6?” he says. “That's Jacques.” And then: “Come here, boy. Friends for life!”)
When I ask Pitt what gives him the most comfort these days, he says, “I get up every morning and I make a fire. When I go to bed, I make a fire, just because—it makes me feel life. I just feel life in this house.”
GQ Style: Let's go back to the start. What was it like growing up where you grew up?
Brad Pitt: Well, it was Springfield, Missouri, which is a big place now, but we grew up surrounded by cornfields—which is weird because we always had canned vegetables. I never could figure that one out! Anyway, ten minutes outside of town, you start getting into forests and rivers and the Ozark Mountains. Stunning country.
Did you have a Huck Finn boyhood?
Half the time. Half the time, yeah.
How so?
I grew up in caves. We had a lot of caves, fantastic caverns. And we grew up First Baptist, which is the cleaner, stricter, by-the-book Christianity. Then, when I was in high school, my folks jumped to a more charismatic movement, which got into speaking in tongues and raising your hands and some goofy-ass shit.
So were you there for speaking in tongues?
Yeah, come on. I'm not even an actor yet, but I know… I mean the people, I know they believe it. I know they're releasing something. God, we're complicated. We're complicated creatures.
So acting came out of what you saw in these revival meetings?
Well, people act out. But as a kid, I was certainly drawn to stories—beyond the stories that we were living and knew, stories with different points of view. And I found those stories in film, especially. Different cultures and lives so foreign to mine. I think that was one of the draws that propelled me into film. I didn't know how to articulate stories. I'm certainly not a good orator, sitting here telling a story, but I could foster them in film.
I remember going to a few concerts, even though we were told rock shows are the Devil, basically. Our parents let us go, they weren't neo about it. But I realized that the reverie and the joy and exuberance, even the aggression, I was feeling at the rock show was the same thing at the revival. One is Jimmy Swaggart and one is Jerry Lee Lewis, you know? One's God and one's Devil. But it's the same thing. It felt like we were being manipulated. What was clear to me was “You don't know what you're talking about—”
And it didn't fuck you up?
No, it didn't fuck me up—it just led to some eating questions at a young age.
The best actors blur into their characters, but given how well the world knows you, it seems you have a much harder time blurring these days?
I have so much attached to this facade. [gestures]
But then, in War Machine, you find the little gesture that makes the Glen McMahon character ours. Like the way he runs, which is hilarious.
The run to me was important because it was about the delusion of your own grandeur, not knowing what you really look like. All pencil legs, you know. Not being able to connect reality to this facade of grandeur.
The other equally distinctive characteristic is Glen's voice. Where did it come from?
You know, it's a little bit of a cliché, but I just enjoyed it too much: There's, you know, of course, Patton in it. But I could not get Sterling Hayden out of my mind. I'm just fascinated with Sterling Hayden, off-camera, between films, and I couldn't escape that. There's even a little bit of Chris Farley in mannerisms. And then Kiefer Sutherland in Monsters vs. Aliens, you know, doing the cartoon voice. It just wouldn't go anywhere else; it kept coming back there.
Have you ever felt the need to be more political?
I can help in other ways. I can help by getting movies out with certain messages. I've got to be moved by something—I can't fake it. I grew up with that Ozarkian mistrust of politics to begin with, so I just do better building a house for someone in New Orleans or getting certain movies to the screen that might not get made otherwise.
You're good at playing that kind of character, the one that doesn't have a truly accurate vision of himself.
It makes me laugh. Any of my foibles are born from my own hubris. Always, always. Anytime. I famously step in shit—at least for me it seems pretty epic. I often wind up with a smelly foot in my mouth. I often say the wrong thing, often in the wrong place and time. Often. In my own private Idaho, it's funny as shit. I don't have that gift. I'm better speaking in some other art form. I'm trying to get better. I'm really trying to get better.
And the movie really pokes at this, too, right—America's hubris?
When I get in trouble it's because of my hubris. When America gets in trouble it's because of our hubris. We think we know better, and this idea of American exceptionalism—I think we're exceptional in many ways, I do, but we can't force it on others. We shouldn't think we can. How do we show American exceptionalism? By example. It's the same as being a good father. By exemplifying our tenets and our beliefs, freedom and choice and not closing borders and being protectionists. But that's another issue. You want me to tell you something really sad? I thought this was so sad. We were looking at—let me say, a certain war film that was looking to promote itself. The European posters had the American flag in the background, and it came back from the marketing department: “Remove the flag. It's not a good sell here.” I was, like, Man, that's America. That's what we've done to our brand.
You've played characters in pain. What is pain, emotional and physical?
Yeah, I'm kind of done playing those. I think it was more pain tourism. It was still an avoidance in some way. I've never heard anyone laugh bigger than an African mother who's lost nine family members. What is that? I just got R&B for the first time. R&B comes from great pain, but it's a celebration. To me, it's embracing what's left. It's that African woman being able to laugh much more boisterously than I've ever been able to.
“For me this period has been about looking at my weaknesses and failures and owning my side of the street.”
When did you have that revelation? What have you been listening to?
I've been listening to a lot of Frank Ocean. I find this young man so special. Talk about getting to the raw truth. He's painfully honest. He's very, very special. I can't find a bad one.
And of great irony to me: Marvin Gaye's Here, My Dear [Gaye's touchstone album about divorce]. And that kind of sent me down a road.
Intense.
But beautiful—and quite honest.... You know, I just started therapy. I love it, I love it. I went through two therapists to get to the right one.
Do you think if the past six months hadn't happened you'd be in this place eventually? That it would have caught up with you?
I think it would have come knocking, no matter what.
People call it a midlife crisis, but this isn't the same—
No, this isn't that. I interpret a midlife crisis as a fear of growing old and fear of dying, you know, going out and buying a Lamborghini. [pause] Actually—they've been looking pretty good to me lately! [laughs]
There might be a few Lamborghinis in your future!
“I do have a Ford GT,” he says quietly. [laughs] I do remember a few spots along the road where I've become absolutely tired of myself. And this is a big one. These moments have always been a huge generator for change. And I'm quite grateful for it. But me, personally, I can't remember a day since I got out of college when I wasn't boozing or had a spliff, or something. Something. And you realize that a lot of it is, um—cigarettes, you know, pacifiers. And I'm running from feelings. I'm really, really happy to be done with all of that. I mean I stopped everything except boozing when I started my family. But even this last year, you know—things I wasn't dealing with. I was boozing too much. It's just become a problem. And I'm really happy it's been half a year now, which is bittersweet, but I've got my feelings in my fingertips again. I think that's part of the human challenge: You either deny them all of your life or you answer them and evolve.
Was it hard to stop smoking pot?
No. Back in my stoner days, I wanted to smoke a joint with Jack and Snoop and Willie. You know, when you're a stoner, you get these really stupid ideas. Well, I don't want to indict the others, but I haven't made it to Willie yet.
I'm sure he's out there on a bus somewhere waiting for you. How about alcohol—you don't miss it?
I mean, we have a winery. I enjoy wine very, very much, but I just ran it to the ground. I had to step away for a minute. And truthfully I could drink a Russian under the table with his own vodka. I was a professional. I was good.
So how do you just drop it like that?
Don't want to live that way anymore.
What do you replace it with?
Cranberry juice and fizzy water. I've got the cleanest urinary tract in all of L.A., I guarantee you! But the terrible thing is I tend to run things into the ground. That's why I've got to make something so calamitous. I've got to run it off a cliff.
Do you think that's a thing?
I do it with everything, yeah. I exhaust it, and then I walk away. I've always looked at things in seasons, compartmentalized them, I guess, seasons or semesters or tenures or…
Really? So, this is the season of me getting my drink on.…
[laughs] Yeah, it's that stupid. “This is my Sid and Nancy season.” I remember that one when I first got out to L.A. It got titled afterwards.
So then, you stop yourself, but how do you—I don't know why this comes to mind but I think of a house—how do you renovate yourself?
Yeah, you start by removing all the decor and decorations, I think. You get down to the structure. Wow, we are in some big metaphor here now.… [laughs]
Metaphors are my life.
You strip down to the foundation and break out the mortar. I don't know. For me this period has really been about looking at my weaknesses and failures and owning my side of the street. I'm an asshole when it comes to this need for justice. I don't know where it comes from, this hollow quest for justice for some perceived slight. I can drill on that for days and years. It's done me no good whatsoever. It's such a silly idea, the idea that the world is fair. And this is coming from a guy who hit the lottery, I'm well aware of that. I hit the lottery, and I still would waste my time on those hollow pursuits.
That's the thing about becoming un-numb. You have to stare down everything that matters to you.
That's it! Sitting with those horrible feelings, and needing to understand them, and putting them into place. In the end, you find: I am those things I don't like. That is a part of me. I can't deny that. I have to accept that. And in fact, I have to embrace that. I need to face that and take care of that. Because by denying it, I deny myself. I am those mistakes. For me every misstep has been a step toward epiphany, understanding, some kind of joy. Yeah, the avoidance of pain is a real mistake. It's the real missing out on life. It's those very things that shape us, those very things that offer growth, that make the world a better place, oddly enough, ironically. That make us better.
Would there be art without it? Would there be any of this immense beauty that surrounds us?
Yeah—immense beauty, immense beauty. And by the way: There's no love without loss. It's a package deal.
Can you describe where you've been living—like, have you been in this house since September?
It was too sad to be here at first, so I went and stayed on a friend's floor, a little bungalow in Santa Monica. I crashed over here a little bit, my friend [David] Fincher lives right here. He's always going to have an open door for me, and I was doing a lot of stuff on the Westside, so I stayed at my friend's house on the floor for a month and a half—until I was out there one morning, 5:30, and this surveillance van pulls up. They don't know that I'm up behind a wall, and they pull up—and it's a long story—but it was something more than TMZ, because they got into my friend's computer. The stuff they can do these days.... So I got a little paranoid being there. I decided I had to pick up and come here.
‘If I'm not creating something, putting it out there, then I'll just be creating scenarios of fiery demise in my mind.
How are your days different now?
This house was always chaotic and crazy, voices and bangs coming from everywhere, and then, as you see, there are days like this: very…very solemn. I don't know. I think everyone's creative in some way. If I'm not creating something, doing something, putting it out there, then I'll just be creating scenarios of fiery demise in my mind. You know, a horrible end. And so I've been going to a friend's sculpting studio, spending a lot of time over there. My friend [Thomas Houseago] is a serious sculptor. They've been kind. I've literally been squatting in there for a month now. I'm taking a shit on their sanctity.
not mine.credit and source: GQ
May 03, 2017
Brad Pitt is making matcha green tea on a cool morning in his old Craftsman in the Hollywood Hills, where he's lived since 1994. There have been other properties in other places—including a château in France and homes in New Orleans and New York City—but this has always been his kids' “childhood home,” he says. And even though they're not here now, he's decided it's important that he is. Today the place is deeply silent, except for the snoring of his bulldog, Jacques.
Pitt wears a flannel shirt and skinny jeans that hang loose on his frame. Invisible to the eye is that sculpted bulk we've seen on film for a quarter-century. He looks like an L.A. dad on a juice cleanse, gearing up to do house projects. On the counter sit some plated goodies from Starbucks, which he doesn't touch, and some coffee, which he does. Pitt, who exudes likability, general decency, and a sense of humor (dark and a little cockeyed), says he's really gotten into making matcha lately, something a friend introduced him to. He loves the whole ritual of it. He deliberately sprinkles some green powder in a cup with a sifter, then pours in the boiling water, whisking with a bamboo brush, until the liquid is a harlequin froth. “You're gonna love this,” he says, handing me the cup.
Serenity, balance, order: That's the vibe, at least. That's what you think you're feeling in the kitchen of Brad Pitt's perfectly constructed, awesomely decorated abode. Outside, children's bikes are lined up in the rack; a blown-up dragon floatie bobs on the pool through the window. From the sideboard, with its exquisite inlay, to the vase on the mantel, the house exudes care and intention. And it carries its own stories, not just about when the Jolie-Pitts were a happy family, but also from back in the day, when Jimi Hendrix crashed here. It's said he wrote “May This Be Love” out in the grotto, with its waterfall (Waterfall / Nothing can harm me at all…). “I don't know if it's true,” says Pitt, “but a hippie came by and said he used to drop acid with Jim back there, so I run with the story.”
And yet Pitt is the first one to acknowledge that it's been chaos these past six months, during what he calls a “weird” time. In conversation, he seems absolutely locked in one moment and a little twitchy and forlorn in the next, having been put on a journey he didn't intend to make but admits was “self-inflicted.” The unfortunate worst of it surfaced in public this past September. When he was on a flight to Los Angeles aboard a private plane, there was a reported altercation between Pitt and one of his six children, 15-year-old Maddox. An anonymous phone call was made to the authorities, which triggered an FBI investigation (ultimately closed with no charges). Five days later, his wife, Angelina Jolie, filed for divorce. By then, everything in Pitt's world was in free fall. It wasn't just a public-relations crisis—there was a father suddenly deprived of his kids, a husband without wife. And here he is, alone, a 53-year-old human father/former husband smack in the middle of an unraveled life, figuring out how to mend it back together.
And yet the enterprise known as Brad Pitt inexorably carries on. In November, the movie Allied came out, starring Pitt and Marion Cotillard. At the premiere he was described as “gaunt,” and rumors of an affair with Cotillard, and an on-set encounter between her and Jolie, had been so virulent that Cotillard took to social media to deny them, underscoring her love for her own partner, with whom she was pregnant with their second child. Meanwhile, Pitt's production company, Plan B Entertainment, found itself winning an astonishing third Oscar for Best Picture, with Moonlight. (Pitt spent the Oscars ceremony at a friend's house.) This month Netflix will release Pitt's War Machine, a satire based on the incidents surrounding the firing of General Stanley McChrystal. In the film, he plays a gruff, ascetic stand-in for McChrystal, General Glen McMahon, with both big-gestured comic panache and an oblivious unknowingness that seems to be a metaphor for the entire American war effort.
But on this overcast spring morning, catching Pitt at this flexion point, I would say he seems more like one of those stripped-down Samuel Beckett characters, in a blank landscape, asking big questions of a futile world. Even the generalities he employs for protection seem metaphoric. (He mentioned his estranged wife's name only once, when referencing her Cambodia movie, First They Killed My Father, telling me, “You should see Angie's film.”) The loneliness of this new life, he said, is mitigated by Jacques, who spent most of the interview beached in a narcoleptic reverie at my feet, snoring and farting. (“Did you ever have the uncle that came over with emphysema, and had to sleep in your room when you were 6?” he says. “That's Jacques.” And then: “Come here, boy. Friends for life!”)
When I ask Pitt what gives him the most comfort these days, he says, “I get up every morning and I make a fire. When I go to bed, I make a fire, just because—it makes me feel life. I just feel life in this house.”
GQ Style: Let's go back to the start. What was it like growing up where you grew up?
Brad Pitt: Well, it was Springfield, Missouri, which is a big place now, but we grew up surrounded by cornfields—which is weird because we always had canned vegetables. I never could figure that one out! Anyway, ten minutes outside of town, you start getting into forests and rivers and the Ozark Mountains. Stunning country.
Did you have a Huck Finn boyhood?
Half the time. Half the time, yeah.
How so?
I grew up in caves. We had a lot of caves, fantastic caverns. And we grew up First Baptist, which is the cleaner, stricter, by-the-book Christianity. Then, when I was in high school, my folks jumped to a more charismatic movement, which got into speaking in tongues and raising your hands and some goofy-ass shit.
So were you there for speaking in tongues?
Yeah, come on. I'm not even an actor yet, but I know… I mean the people, I know they believe it. I know they're releasing something. God, we're complicated. We're complicated creatures.
So acting came out of what you saw in these revival meetings?
Well, people act out. But as a kid, I was certainly drawn to stories—beyond the stories that we were living and knew, stories with different points of view. And I found those stories in film, especially. Different cultures and lives so foreign to mine. I think that was one of the draws that propelled me into film. I didn't know how to articulate stories. I'm certainly not a good orator, sitting here telling a story, but I could foster them in film.
I remember going to a few concerts, even though we were told rock shows are the Devil, basically. Our parents let us go, they weren't neo about it. But I realized that the reverie and the joy and exuberance, even the aggression, I was feeling at the rock show was the same thing at the revival. One is Jimmy Swaggart and one is Jerry Lee Lewis, you know? One's God and one's Devil. But it's the same thing. It felt like we were being manipulated. What was clear to me was “You don't know what you're talking about—”
And it didn't fuck you up?
No, it didn't fuck me up—it just led to some eating questions at a young age.
The best actors blur into their characters, but given how well the world knows you, it seems you have a much harder time blurring these days?
I have so much attached to this facade. [gestures]
But then, in War Machine, you find the little gesture that makes the Glen McMahon character ours. Like the way he runs, which is hilarious.
The run to me was important because it was about the delusion of your own grandeur, not knowing what you really look like. All pencil legs, you know. Not being able to connect reality to this facade of grandeur.
The other equally distinctive characteristic is Glen's voice. Where did it come from?
You know, it's a little bit of a cliché, but I just enjoyed it too much: There's, you know, of course, Patton in it. But I could not get Sterling Hayden out of my mind. I'm just fascinated with Sterling Hayden, off-camera, between films, and I couldn't escape that. There's even a little bit of Chris Farley in mannerisms. And then Kiefer Sutherland in Monsters vs. Aliens, you know, doing the cartoon voice. It just wouldn't go anywhere else; it kept coming back there.
Have you ever felt the need to be more political?
I can help in other ways. I can help by getting movies out with certain messages. I've got to be moved by something—I can't fake it. I grew up with that Ozarkian mistrust of politics to begin with, so I just do better building a house for someone in New Orleans or getting certain movies to the screen that might not get made otherwise.
You're good at playing that kind of character, the one that doesn't have a truly accurate vision of himself.
It makes me laugh. Any of my foibles are born from my own hubris. Always, always. Anytime. I famously step in shit—at least for me it seems pretty epic. I often wind up with a smelly foot in my mouth. I often say the wrong thing, often in the wrong place and time. Often. In my own private Idaho, it's funny as shit. I don't have that gift. I'm better speaking in some other art form. I'm trying to get better. I'm really trying to get better.
And the movie really pokes at this, too, right—America's hubris?
When I get in trouble it's because of my hubris. When America gets in trouble it's because of our hubris. We think we know better, and this idea of American exceptionalism—I think we're exceptional in many ways, I do, but we can't force it on others. We shouldn't think we can. How do we show American exceptionalism? By example. It's the same as being a good father. By exemplifying our tenets and our beliefs, freedom and choice and not closing borders and being protectionists. But that's another issue. You want me to tell you something really sad? I thought this was so sad. We were looking at—let me say, a certain war film that was looking to promote itself. The European posters had the American flag in the background, and it came back from the marketing department: “Remove the flag. It's not a good sell here.” I was, like, Man, that's America. That's what we've done to our brand.
You've played characters in pain. What is pain, emotional and physical?
Yeah, I'm kind of done playing those. I think it was more pain tourism. It was still an avoidance in some way. I've never heard anyone laugh bigger than an African mother who's lost nine family members. What is that? I just got R&B for the first time. R&B comes from great pain, but it's a celebration. To me, it's embracing what's left. It's that African woman being able to laugh much more boisterously than I've ever been able to.
“For me this period has been about looking at my weaknesses and failures and owning my side of the street.”
When did you have that revelation? What have you been listening to?
I've been listening to a lot of Frank Ocean. I find this young man so special. Talk about getting to the raw truth. He's painfully honest. He's very, very special. I can't find a bad one.
And of great irony to me: Marvin Gaye's Here, My Dear [Gaye's touchstone album about divorce]. And that kind of sent me down a road.
Intense.
But beautiful—and quite honest.... You know, I just started therapy. I love it, I love it. I went through two therapists to get to the right one.
Do you think if the past six months hadn't happened you'd be in this place eventually? That it would have caught up with you?
I think it would have come knocking, no matter what.
People call it a midlife crisis, but this isn't the same—
No, this isn't that. I interpret a midlife crisis as a fear of growing old and fear of dying, you know, going out and buying a Lamborghini. [pause] Actually—they've been looking pretty good to me lately! [laughs]
There might be a few Lamborghinis in your future!
“I do have a Ford GT,” he says quietly. [laughs] I do remember a few spots along the road where I've become absolutely tired of myself. And this is a big one. These moments have always been a huge generator for change. And I'm quite grateful for it. But me, personally, I can't remember a day since I got out of college when I wasn't boozing or had a spliff, or something. Something. And you realize that a lot of it is, um—cigarettes, you know, pacifiers. And I'm running from feelings. I'm really, really happy to be done with all of that. I mean I stopped everything except boozing when I started my family. But even this last year, you know—things I wasn't dealing with. I was boozing too much. It's just become a problem. And I'm really happy it's been half a year now, which is bittersweet, but I've got my feelings in my fingertips again. I think that's part of the human challenge: You either deny them all of your life or you answer them and evolve.
Was it hard to stop smoking pot?
No. Back in my stoner days, I wanted to smoke a joint with Jack and Snoop and Willie. You know, when you're a stoner, you get these really stupid ideas. Well, I don't want to indict the others, but I haven't made it to Willie yet.
I'm sure he's out there on a bus somewhere waiting for you. How about alcohol—you don't miss it?
I mean, we have a winery. I enjoy wine very, very much, but I just ran it to the ground. I had to step away for a minute. And truthfully I could drink a Russian under the table with his own vodka. I was a professional. I was good.
So how do you just drop it like that?
Don't want to live that way anymore.
What do you replace it with?
Cranberry juice and fizzy water. I've got the cleanest urinary tract in all of L.A., I guarantee you! But the terrible thing is I tend to run things into the ground. That's why I've got to make something so calamitous. I've got to run it off a cliff.
Do you think that's a thing?
I do it with everything, yeah. I exhaust it, and then I walk away. I've always looked at things in seasons, compartmentalized them, I guess, seasons or semesters or tenures or…
Really? So, this is the season of me getting my drink on.…
[laughs] Yeah, it's that stupid. “This is my Sid and Nancy season.” I remember that one when I first got out to L.A. It got titled afterwards.
So then, you stop yourself, but how do you—I don't know why this comes to mind but I think of a house—how do you renovate yourself?
Yeah, you start by removing all the decor and decorations, I think. You get down to the structure. Wow, we are in some big metaphor here now.… [laughs]
Metaphors are my life.
You strip down to the foundation and break out the mortar. I don't know. For me this period has really been about looking at my weaknesses and failures and owning my side of the street. I'm an asshole when it comes to this need for justice. I don't know where it comes from, this hollow quest for justice for some perceived slight. I can drill on that for days and years. It's done me no good whatsoever. It's such a silly idea, the idea that the world is fair. And this is coming from a guy who hit the lottery, I'm well aware of that. I hit the lottery, and I still would waste my time on those hollow pursuits.
That's the thing about becoming un-numb. You have to stare down everything that matters to you.
That's it! Sitting with those horrible feelings, and needing to understand them, and putting them into place. In the end, you find: I am those things I don't like. That is a part of me. I can't deny that. I have to accept that. And in fact, I have to embrace that. I need to face that and take care of that. Because by denying it, I deny myself. I am those mistakes. For me every misstep has been a step toward epiphany, understanding, some kind of joy. Yeah, the avoidance of pain is a real mistake. It's the real missing out on life. It's those very things that shape us, those very things that offer growth, that make the world a better place, oddly enough, ironically. That make us better.
Would there be art without it? Would there be any of this immense beauty that surrounds us?
Yeah—immense beauty, immense beauty. And by the way: There's no love without loss. It's a package deal.
Can you describe where you've been living—like, have you been in this house since September?
It was too sad to be here at first, so I went and stayed on a friend's floor, a little bungalow in Santa Monica. I crashed over here a little bit, my friend [David] Fincher lives right here. He's always going to have an open door for me, and I was doing a lot of stuff on the Westside, so I stayed at my friend's house on the floor for a month and a half—until I was out there one morning, 5:30, and this surveillance van pulls up. They don't know that I'm up behind a wall, and they pull up—and it's a long story—but it was something more than TMZ, because they got into my friend's computer. The stuff they can do these days.... So I got a little paranoid being there. I decided I had to pick up and come here.
‘If I'm not creating something, putting it out there, then I'll just be creating scenarios of fiery demise in my mind.
How are your days different now?
This house was always chaotic and crazy, voices and bangs coming from everywhere, and then, as you see, there are days like this: very…very solemn. I don't know. I think everyone's creative in some way. If I'm not creating something, doing something, putting it out there, then I'll just be creating scenarios of fiery demise in my mind. You know, a horrible end. And so I've been going to a friend's sculpting studio, spending a lot of time over there. My friend [Thomas Houseago] is a serious sculptor. They've been kind. I've literally been squatting in there for a month now. I'm taking a shit on their sanctity.
So you're making stuff?
Yeah, I'm making stuff. It's something I've wanted to do for ten years.
Like what? What are you working with?
I'm making everything. I'm working with clay, plaster, rebar, wood. Just trying to learn the materials. You know, I surprise myself. But it's a very, very lonely occupation. There's a lot of manual labor, which is good for me right now. A lot of lugging clay around, chopping and moving and cleaning up after yourself. But I surprise myself. Yesterday I wasn't settled. I had a lotta chaotic thoughts—trying to make sense of where we are at this time—and the thing I was doing wasn't controlled and balanced and perfect. It came out chaotic. I find vernacular in what you can make, rather than giving a speech. I find voice there, that I need.
All the bad stuff: Do you use it to tell your story?
It just keeps knocking. I'm 53 and I'm just getting into it. These are things I thought I was managing very well. I remember literally having this thought a year, a year and a half ago, someone was going through some scandal. Something crossed my path that was a big scandal—and I went, “Thank God I'm never going to have to be a part of one of those again.” I live my life, I have my family, I do my thing, I don't do anything illegal, I don't cross anyone's path. What's the David Foster Wallace quote? Truth will set you free, but not until it's done with you first.
Is the sculpting a Sisyphean thing: rolling the rock up the hill, action obliterating all thoughts? [Jacques interrupts, nuzzling]
I know you've been lonely. I know you've been lonely....
I find it the opposite. Well, I guess so, in that there's a task at hand. You have to wrap your stuff up at night and bring order back to your chaos for the next day. I find it a great opportunity for the introspection. Now you have to be real careful not to go too far that way and get cut off in that way. I'm really good at cutting myself off, and it's been a problem. I need to be more accessible, especially to the ones I love.
When you go dark, do you retreat, disconnect?
I don't know how to answer that. I certainly shield. Shield, shield, shield. Mask, escape. Now I think: That's just me.
You were talking about the Glen character in War Machine and the idea of delusion, that we have to create our own mythologies, our own stories, to explain the things we're not proud of.
At a real cost to ourselves.
How do you not delude yourself? I worry about that—
You don't have to worry about it. [laughs] Delusion is not going to let you go. You're going to get smacked in the face. We, as humans, construct such mousetrap mind games to get away from it all. You know, we're almost too smart for ourselves.
Okay. But if you had a slideshow of all your worst moments as a human, you wouldn't want anyone to see that slideshow. The way you've had to live for years, that slideshow has been public.
But so little of it is accurate, and I avoid so much of it. I just let it go. It's always been a long-run game for me. As far as out there, I hope my intentions and work will speak for themselves. But, yes, at the same time, it is a drag to have certain things drug out in public and misconstrued. I worry about it more for my kids, being subjected to it, and their friends getting ideas from it. And of course it's not done with any kind of delicacy or insight—it's done to sell. And so you know the most sensational sells, and that's what they'll be subjected to, and that pains me. I worry more in my current situation about the slideshow my kids have. I want to make sure it's well-balanced.
“People on their deathbeds don't talk about what they obtained. They talk about their loved ones or their regrets—that seems to be the menu.”
How do you make sense of the past six months and keep going?
Family first. People on their deathbeds don't talk about what they obtained or were awarded. They talk about their loved ones or their regrets—that seems to be the menu. I say that as someone who's let the work take me away. Kids are so delicate. They absorb everything. They need to have their hand held and things explained. They need to be listened to. When I get in that busy work mode, I'm not hearing. I want to be better at that.
When you begin making a family, I think you hope to create another family that is some ideal mix of the best of what you had and what you feel you didn't have—
I try to put these things in front of them, hoping they'll absorb it and that it will mean something to them later. Even in this place, they won't give a shit about that little bust over there or that light. They won't give a shit about that inlay, but somewhere down the road it will mean something—I hope that it will soak in.
It's a different world, too. We know more, we're more focused on psychology. I come from a place where, you know, it's strength if we get a bruise or cut or ailment we don't discuss it, we just deal with it. We just go on. The downside of that is it's the same with our emotion. I'm personally very retarded when it comes to taking inventory of my emotions. I'm much better at covering up. I grew up with a Father-knows-best/war mentality—the father is all-powerful, super strong—instead of really knowing the man and his own self-doubt and struggles. And it's hit me smack in the face with our divorce: I gotta be more. I gotta be more for them. I have to show them. And I haven't been great at it.
Do you know, specifically, logistically when you have the kids?
Yeah. We're working at that now.
It must be much harder when visitation is uncertain—
It was all that for a while. I was really on my back and chained to a system when Child Services was called. And you know, after that, we've been able to work together to sort this out. We're both doing our best. I heard one lawyer say, “No one wins in court—it's just a matter of who gets hurt worse.” And it seems to be true, you spend a year just focused on building a case to prove your point and why you're right and why they're wrong, and it's just an investment in vitriolic hatred. I just refuse. And fortunately my partner in this agrees. It's just very, very jarring for the kids, to suddenly have their family ripped apart.
That's what I was going to ask—
If anyone can make sense of it, we have to with great care and delicacy, building everything around that.
How do you tell your kids?
Well, there's a lot to tell them because there's understanding the future, there's understanding the immediate moment and why we're at this point, and then it brings up a lot of issues from the past that we haven't talked about. So our focus is that everyone comes out stronger and better people—there is no other outcome.
“I know I'm just in the middle of this thing now—not at the beginning or at the end, just smack-dab in the middle. And I don't want to dodge any of it.”
And the fact that you guys are pointing toward that—that clearly doesn't always happen. If you ended up in court, it would be a spectacular nightmare.
Spectacular. I see it everywhere. Such animosity and bitterly dedicating years to destroying each other. You'll be in court and it'll be all about affairs and it'll be everything that doesn't matter. It's just awful, it looks awful. One of my favorite movies when it came out was There Will Be Blood, and I couldn't figure out why I loved this movie, I just loved this movie, besides the obvious talent of Paul T. and, you know, Daniel Day. But the next morning I woke up, and I went, Oh, my God, this whole movie is dedicated to this man and his hatred. It's so audacious to make a movie about it, and in life I find it just so sickening. I see it happen to friends—I see where the one spouse literally can't tell their own part in it, and is still competing with the other in some way and wants to destroy them and needs vindication by destruction, and just wasting years on that hatred. I don't want to live that way.
What in the past week has given you immense joy? Can you feel that right now?
It's an elusive thing. It's been a more painful week than normal—just certain things have come up—but I see joy out the window, and I can see the silhouette of palms and an expression on one of my kids' faces, a parting smile, or finding some, you know, moment of bliss with the clay. You know, it's everywhere, it's got to be found. It's the laughter of the African mother in my experience—it's got to come from the blues, to get R&B. That'll be in my book.
Are you going to write a book?
No! I find writing too arduous.
But do you worry about the narrative others have written for you?
What did Churchill say? History will be kind to me: I know because I'll write it myself. I don't really care about protecting the narrative. That's when I get a bit pessimistic, I get in my oh-it-all-goes-away-anyway kind of thinking. But I know the people who love me know me. And that's enough for me.
Do you remember your dreams?
Yeah. A few months ago I was having frightening dreams and I'd consciously lie awake trying to ask, What can I get out of this? What can I learn from this? Those ceased. And now I have been having moments of joy, and you wake and realize it's just a dream, and I get a bit depressed for the moment. Just the moment, just glimpse moments of joy because I know I'm just in the middle of this thing now and I'm not at the beginning of it or at the end of it, just where this chapter is right now, just smack-dab in the middle. It's fucking in the middle of it and, you know, I just don't want to dodge any of it. I just want to stand there, shirt open, and take my hits and see, and see.
There's obviously incredible grief. This is like a death—
Yeah.
There's a process—
Yeah, I think for everyone, for the kids, for me, absolutely.
So is there an urge to try to—
The first urge is to cling on.
Then?
And then you've got a cliché: “If you love someone, set them free.” Now I know what it means, by feeling it. It means to love without ownership. It means expecting nothing in return. But it sounds good written. It sounds good when Sting sings it. It doesn't mean fuck-all to me until, you know—
Until you can embody it.
Until you live it. That's why I never understood growing up with Christianity—don't do this, don't do that—it's all about don'ts, and I was like how the fuck do you know who you are and what works for you if you don't find out where the edge is, where's your line? You've got to step over it to know where it is.
For the photo shoot you went to three national parks in a week. It sounds like a boondoggle.
What's the definition of a boondoggle?
I think of it as a sort of ridiculous adventure—
Sounds very Ozarkian. Like something I should know but I don't. Yeah, it was great. Ryan [McGinley, the photographer] had us jumping in the Everglades, you know, like gators. I figured, Well, if they do it on Naked and Afraid, I can do it. But they had the old wrangler, he's got his snake pole and it's got this grabber, like something Grandma would use to pick something off the top shelf, but fine. He took a little walk-through, and if he didn't get eaten, then reportedly I wouldn't get eaten. At least that was the logic behind it all, but he said to me, “When you get to be my age, never pass up a bathroom. Never trust a fart. And never waste a boner.”
Whoa. Then White Sands?
I've never seen anything like it. I mean the dunes are so sculptural and modern and simple and vast and just incredible shapes. To see them white and reflecting white—the sky's actually darker than that ground. It's an odd, beautiful place.
And then the third?
We did Carlsbad Caverns. If we're going to do a celebrity shoot, let's make something, work with an artist, see what we come up with. It's always more interesting.
After all this, do you feel constrained as an actor in some ways?
No, I don't really think of myself much as an actor anymore. It takes up so little of my year and my focus. Film feels like a cheap pass for me, as a way to get at those hard feelings. It doesn't work anymore, especially being a dad.
On the pie chart, what is acting?
Acting would be very small slice.
Do you see yourself as having been successful?
I wish I could just change my name.
Come out as a new person?
Like P. Diddy. I can be Puffy now or—what is Snoop? Lion? I just felt like Brad was a misnomer, and now I just feel like fucking Brad.
What other name would you have put on yourself?
Nothing. When outside success comes, the thing I've enjoyed the most is when there's a personal discovery in it. But when I find it repetitious or painfully boring, it's absolute death to me.
When you're talking, you kinda rub your thumb against your fingers a lot—it's just an observation.
I don't know. I'm tactile—I'm a tactile individual. “I like to feel things up,” he said. [laughs]
Yeah, in high school he was the boy voted most likely to—
To feel you up. [laughs] I don't know, I guess it's back to feeling. I think I spent a lot of time avoiding feelings and building structures, you know, around feelings. And now I have no time left for that.
When is the acting still exciting?
I would say more in comedic stuff, where you're taking gambles. I can turn out the hits over and over and I just—my favorite movie is the worst-performing film of anything I've done, The Assassination of Jesse James. If I believe something is worthy, then I know it will be worthy in time to come. And there are times I get really cynical, you know. I spend a lot of time on design and even this sculpture folly I'm on, I have days when—it all ends up in the dirt anyways: What's the point? So I go through that cycle, too, you know? What's the point?
Oh man, that's a big question.
I know what the point is—it's communicating, it's connecting. I believe we're all cells in one body; we're all part of the same construct. Although a few of us are cancerous. It's helping others. Yeah, we help each other, that's it.
So what's on the agenda later?
I'm anxious to get to the studio. I think it was Picasso who talked about the moment of looking at the subject, and paint hitting canvas, and that is where art happens. For me I'm having a moment of getting to feel emotion at my fingertips. But to get that emotion to clay—I just haven't cracked the surface. And I don't know what's coming. Right now I know the manual labor is good for me, getting to know the expansiveness and limitations of the materials. I've got to start from the bottom, I've got to sweep my floor, I've got to wrap up my shit at night, you know?
A metaphor again. But it works.
Right now I've got to hammer my own nails.
Michael Paterniti is a GQ correspondent. This is his first piece for GQ Style.
This story appears in the Summer 2017 issue of GQ Style with the title “Monumental.”
not mine.credit and source: GQ
COMMENTS
Great article
this was a good read
He looks the best he has looked in years. Healthy and sober.
I don't understand why they got married to begin with. They had a good thing going and not being married worked for them. I think getting married is what was the end for them. It's sad now the kids have to live with her she's crazy.
Whatever you do Brad, God be with you.
He's still beautiful
He's such an amazing person to be honest about his shortcomings and the work he's doing to better himself.
You are a good man Brad Pitt. I wish you peace and happiness in your future.
Good choices just make you a better you. This is not an easy habit to drop. The good news is that the children all learn about life from a good dad example. Being the best Dad you can be is a great goal. It appears that Mr. Pitt is well on his way. One Day at a Time, with gratitude.
At least he is owning up to his shortcomings and not blaming others for them. That is the step to healing. Marriage to 6 kids almost instantly is a huge undertaking for anyone and to be in the spotlight 24-7 due to his career and hers. Yes I'm sure it was bad, but if she truly loved him she would have stood by his side and helped him heal instead of taking the children and running. Look at Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck. That is true love now he is at a better place to handle the divorce. It just saddens me how the world views marriage as something mundane
He still looks HOT! He had me at the Baby blues!
I wish him well.Being addicted to alcohol does not make you a bad person.Marriage should not be taken lightly.Perhaps they should've gone to counseling as a couple instead of globe trotting all around the world.You don't just bail on a marrige when things get tough.
You are amazing Brad! You absolutely should have joint custody of your children.
He seems like a decent enough person who wants to improve as a human. I'm still kind of Icked out that Angelina demanded everything be public, with no regard for the kids' privacy.
He's yummy no matter what.
Good for you Brad...the Most important Job....you will have in Life...is a Parent.....Pay Attention....Best to You n your Kids...Kudos....for Kicking the Booze Problem!God Bless!
Well Mr. Pitt you still have it even at 53. I respect you for being honest even though it's no business of others. We are only human.
Best of luck to you Brad! Wishing you all the Best! Everything happens for a reason .. May you be Blessed with your health n family...
Way to go, Brad! Moving forward with positive steps will create a better future. God Bless your family!
No matter what lies ahead, stay this course. Now, you are alive. Real pain, but also real joy. You look much better, though thin, with the alcohol facade off of you. Read the Velveteen Rabbit- you at least sound real. Best wishes.
He is not perfect and neither is she. Glad to see he is working on his problems with alcohol.
Good for him, for getting his life back on track! Wishing him and his family all the best!
She has already received her "goes around". Looked at her lately? She looks like the scank she is.
Angelina is a succubus, a woman who sucks the souls of the men, Brad is now free.
I'd drink heavily too if I were married to Ms Jolie. She's pretty, but she seems like a major pain in the arse.
Brad keeping it real.
He didn't play the blame game. Honest and worth reading this article
She had to have him and took him from his wife. Then leaves him for something that probably could of been worked out. She's a homewrecking pig!
Here we go with all the karma comments & homewrecker comments. Give it a rest this man is hurting. He fell in love with another woman it happens . They both said nothing happened while he was married & we have no proof that he is lying. And for the record Jennifer Aniston 's current husband was in a long term relationship when he started seeing Jennifer but no one calls her a homewrecker. Im not a Angelina Jolie fan but you cant take somebodys husband from them.
the bitch is still manipulating him. He is trying to make nice and my guess would be that she will pull some shit in court and screw him out of his parental rights and as much money as she can!
Not a fan of him, but I applaud this. He was very vulnerable in this interview and didn't play the blame game. He acknowledged his faults and that he needs to grow as a person and father.
What a beautiful article.. Finally an interview worth reading!! I'm glad he acknowledged that his faults have been the cause of the end of another relationship. Angelina didn't take Brad from his wife, he walked away, almost over 10 years ago people.. If it was worth it, he'd still be with her but definitely was a boring-dead end relationship with Jen..
I appreciate Brad Pitt who is opening up and admit his mistakes and own it. Sometimes it's hard for guys to show emotions
He's still hot.
He's gotten so thin! But he still has those gorgeous blue eyes, and he gets better with time IMHO.
It is incredibly sad to see how Angelina Jolie has been enacting her vow to destroy Brad PItt for the unforgivable crime of leaving her. He is such a good, decent person who has been self-medicating to preserve his sanity while trying to remain married for the sake of his kids. It's obvious he is walking on eggshells to keep that witch happy while he negotiates for the lives of his kids. There is no more hateful and hated actress than Angelina Jolie, and that is saying something.
I doubt he is 100% to blame. With all those kids I'd probably take to drinking myself, but I am sure Angelina has her own shortcomings and she obviously didn't feel he or her marriage was worth fighting for. They could have "taken a break" and worked on their marriage for the sake of themselves and the children. Coming from a dysfunctional home I can tell her now, she only thinks her kids will be ok. This will stay with them the rest of their lives. No matter how much counseling she subjects them to, she can't un-ring the bell.
i'm going to be honest and say that if i was married to ms jolie, that would probably drive me to drink too. she does not come across as having a very easy personality. i don't trust women who don't have any female friends (her own admission) and i was disappointed that she could not take the high ground when they broke up, and avoid trying to trash the father of her children.
Here's the problem with whitewashing Jolie's issues as if she no longer has a problem - she has shown signs of using over and over in the past decade and also refused any therapy/ treatment for her personality disorder. Her children are isolated from others and used for pap-strolls. His interview, if you read it in full which you obviously haven't, says that he regrets having a lottery ticket in life and then boozing his way through it all. The Angieloonies are in danger of jumping on this as personal vindication without addressing any of HER issues. There are children involved! Pitt is a big enough star that he can take the heat and still get the big roles, but she really needs help with her image so he is helping her out. That's how the Brand works, it's Hollywood-speak for "We have done a deal and I am taking the blame". Essentially, they are still playing the public and working their Brand. She married him only recently but now says there were problems for years?
Save your children from Angelina, Brad! Especially Shiloh!
I love how he never talks crap about anybody ever. He's got the platform for it, but does not take the bait. Integrity.
No, she was not right, and it's a very onesided story now. Brad admitted his fault, but she doesn't, and it's obvious she is not a saint.
He seems to be very intelligent and a true artist, he is an interesting man.
Ok, so Brad admitted his issues, you're next, Angie....
she didnt seek help in fact she refused treatment or therapy for a diagnosed personality problem. Refused rehab - carried on using. Carried on selfharming. You fell for the classic Hollywood PR trick of 'admitting fault in the past to cover current misdemeanours'. She has looked as high as a kite on the red carpet at different times throughout the whole relationship, he had to steady her and calm her down.
Not a Brad or Angelina fan, but good on him for admitting his faults. Good luck to them both
to them she is a goddess who can do no wrong despite the evidence.
A mental case calls others mental cases when she doesn't even know them.
He was drinking for a reason!
He is beautiful even though he is unhappy at the moment, this shall pass. He just needs a nice woman to make him happy. That woman gotta be on amazing woman to make Brad happy after all this.
He now looks the best for years. When he was with Angelina, he was bloated, Angelina was singing praise what a wonder father he was. I guess Angelina was lying. but I don't think the divorce is only solution, she could get him to quit drinking.
He looks healthy in pics at art studio. Good for him. I don't think Angelina is good for him. it was wrong from the beginning. Now he fixes his own problem, find a better woman.
Jolie is having a moment of vindication but her issues and behaviours have not just gone away.
She has shown over and over in myriad ways that she isn't.
He looks sad but he is breathtakingly gorgeous. He is Brad Pitt
He has all the symptoms of an abused man. He took all the blame when she is the driving force behind his reason to drink. If she is a saint why is his her third marriage? Why would the two men before her ran away? All the kids should be taken away from her. He is the sane parent.
I wouldn't be surprised if she forced him to do this interview taking all the blame as a condition for seeing the children. Then she can go back to being a saint.
She has history of blanking family when they don't live up to her expectations.... look at her relationship with her father for a start.
Is he taking the blame as she wants a clear run at British politics.
One day he'll realise just how lucky he was to escape this woman!
sounds to me that old 'bo ob job can't wear a bra anymore' (yes indeed, sheeple ; ) Angie made sure he talked about his drinking issue. A to xic narci s sist like her would want the leverage of Brad 'admitting ' how bad he is too make her look good - esp. if he wants to see the kids without spending milions on lawyers. Too many have no idea how calculated NPD's are. They look to ensure themselves often being much worse is diminished or totally hidden...
Did she make you say these things so you could see the kids? Blink twice.
How many guys his age are as good looking as him? I would venture not too many.
I think he's pretty gorgeous personally.
I think he's aging well.
He looks good for a w h ite dude. He is aging fine. Looks distinguished..
People are harping on about how terrible he looks.....he's getting older ,we all age! Many are denied old age early. So embrace your laughter line and look upon your wrinkles as a face that tells a story.
Really like your honesty Brad - best wishes to you and the children x
Impressed by Brad Pitt's honesty. Wish him well.
Nannies at their ages.. comm'on. Also you eat what is served at the table... that's good education. But its not my business. It takes a lot of work, honesty and humility to admit your faults and even more to try and correct them. Bravo to Brad Pitt for taking the right steps.
Life is truly a one long lessson to us all......you live and learn from your mistakes which goes to say 'older and wiser'. He knows he has made mistakes and learning it and that is commendable.....some people just don't learn from their own mistakes! I say good luck to Brad and wishes him happiness will find its way to him again.
Their backgrounds were vastly different and this usually becomes a problem when the kids arrive. Angie grew up with nannies no normal schooling, living in separate quarters from her grief stricken mother. Brad grew up with midwestern values and attended public schools.
Not entirely convinced he hasn't been coerced into giving this interview to ensure he gets access to his kids, and dispel the myth that being married to Angelina would drive any man to drink!
this was a good read
He looks the best he has looked in years. Healthy and sober.
I don't understand why they got married to begin with. They had a good thing going and not being married worked for them. I think getting married is what was the end for them. It's sad now the kids have to live with her she's crazy.
Whatever you do Brad, God be with you.
He's still beautiful
He's such an amazing person to be honest about his shortcomings and the work he's doing to better himself.
You are a good man Brad Pitt. I wish you peace and happiness in your future.
Good choices just make you a better you. This is not an easy habit to drop. The good news is that the children all learn about life from a good dad example. Being the best Dad you can be is a great goal. It appears that Mr. Pitt is well on his way. One Day at a Time, with gratitude.
At least he is owning up to his shortcomings and not blaming others for them. That is the step to healing. Marriage to 6 kids almost instantly is a huge undertaking for anyone and to be in the spotlight 24-7 due to his career and hers. Yes I'm sure it was bad, but if she truly loved him she would have stood by his side and helped him heal instead of taking the children and running. Look at Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck. That is true love now he is at a better place to handle the divorce. It just saddens me how the world views marriage as something mundane
He still looks HOT! He had me at the Baby blues!
I wish him well.Being addicted to alcohol does not make you a bad person.Marriage should not be taken lightly.Perhaps they should've gone to counseling as a couple instead of globe trotting all around the world.You don't just bail on a marrige when things get tough.
You are amazing Brad! You absolutely should have joint custody of your children.
He seems like a decent enough person who wants to improve as a human. I'm still kind of Icked out that Angelina demanded everything be public, with no regard for the kids' privacy.
He's yummy no matter what.
Good for you Brad...the Most important Job....you will have in Life...is a Parent.....Pay Attention....Best to You n your Kids...Kudos....for Kicking the Booze Problem!God Bless!
Well Mr. Pitt you still have it even at 53. I respect you for being honest even though it's no business of others. We are only human.
Best of luck to you Brad! Wishing you all the Best! Everything happens for a reason .. May you be Blessed with your health n family...
Way to go, Brad! Moving forward with positive steps will create a better future. God Bless your family!
No matter what lies ahead, stay this course. Now, you are alive. Real pain, but also real joy. You look much better, though thin, with the alcohol facade off of you. Read the Velveteen Rabbit- you at least sound real. Best wishes.
He is not perfect and neither is she. Glad to see he is working on his problems with alcohol.
Good for him, for getting his life back on track! Wishing him and his family all the best!
She has already received her "goes around". Looked at her lately? She looks like the scank she is.
Angelina is a succubus, a woman who sucks the souls of the men, Brad is now free.
I'd drink heavily too if I were married to Ms Jolie. She's pretty, but she seems like a major pain in the arse.
Brad keeping it real.
He didn't play the blame game. Honest and worth reading this article
She had to have him and took him from his wife. Then leaves him for something that probably could of been worked out. She's a homewrecking pig!
Here we go with all the karma comments & homewrecker comments. Give it a rest this man is hurting. He fell in love with another woman it happens . They both said nothing happened while he was married & we have no proof that he is lying. And for the record Jennifer Aniston 's current husband was in a long term relationship when he started seeing Jennifer but no one calls her a homewrecker. Im not a Angelina Jolie fan but you cant take somebodys husband from them.
the bitch is still manipulating him. He is trying to make nice and my guess would be that she will pull some shit in court and screw him out of his parental rights and as much money as she can!
Not a fan of him, but I applaud this. He was very vulnerable in this interview and didn't play the blame game. He acknowledged his faults and that he needs to grow as a person and father.
What a beautiful article.. Finally an interview worth reading!! I'm glad he acknowledged that his faults have been the cause of the end of another relationship. Angelina didn't take Brad from his wife, he walked away, almost over 10 years ago people.. If it was worth it, he'd still be with her but definitely was a boring-dead end relationship with Jen..
I appreciate Brad Pitt who is opening up and admit his mistakes and own it. Sometimes it's hard for guys to show emotions
He's still hot.
He's gotten so thin! But he still has those gorgeous blue eyes, and he gets better with time IMHO.
It is incredibly sad to see how Angelina Jolie has been enacting her vow to destroy Brad PItt for the unforgivable crime of leaving her. He is such a good, decent person who has been self-medicating to preserve his sanity while trying to remain married for the sake of his kids. It's obvious he is walking on eggshells to keep that witch happy while he negotiates for the lives of his kids. There is no more hateful and hated actress than Angelina Jolie, and that is saying something.
I doubt he is 100% to blame. With all those kids I'd probably take to drinking myself, but I am sure Angelina has her own shortcomings and she obviously didn't feel he or her marriage was worth fighting for. They could have "taken a break" and worked on their marriage for the sake of themselves and the children. Coming from a dysfunctional home I can tell her now, she only thinks her kids will be ok. This will stay with them the rest of their lives. No matter how much counseling she subjects them to, she can't un-ring the bell.
i'm going to be honest and say that if i was married to ms jolie, that would probably drive me to drink too. she does not come across as having a very easy personality. i don't trust women who don't have any female friends (her own admission) and i was disappointed that she could not take the high ground when they broke up, and avoid trying to trash the father of her children.
Here's the problem with whitewashing Jolie's issues as if she no longer has a problem - she has shown signs of using over and over in the past decade and also refused any therapy/ treatment for her personality disorder. Her children are isolated from others and used for pap-strolls. His interview, if you read it in full which you obviously haven't, says that he regrets having a lottery ticket in life and then boozing his way through it all. The Angieloonies are in danger of jumping on this as personal vindication without addressing any of HER issues. There are children involved! Pitt is a big enough star that he can take the heat and still get the big roles, but she really needs help with her image so he is helping her out. That's how the Brand works, it's Hollywood-speak for "We have done a deal and I am taking the blame". Essentially, they are still playing the public and working their Brand. She married him only recently but now says there were problems for years?
Save your children from Angelina, Brad! Especially Shiloh!
I love how he never talks crap about anybody ever. He's got the platform for it, but does not take the bait. Integrity.
No, she was not right, and it's a very onesided story now. Brad admitted his fault, but she doesn't, and it's obvious she is not a saint.
He seems to be very intelligent and a true artist, he is an interesting man.
Ok, so Brad admitted his issues, you're next, Angie....
she didnt seek help in fact she refused treatment or therapy for a diagnosed personality problem. Refused rehab - carried on using. Carried on selfharming. You fell for the classic Hollywood PR trick of 'admitting fault in the past to cover current misdemeanours'. She has looked as high as a kite on the red carpet at different times throughout the whole relationship, he had to steady her and calm her down.
Not a Brad or Angelina fan, but good on him for admitting his faults. Good luck to them both
to them she is a goddess who can do no wrong despite the evidence.
A mental case calls others mental cases when she doesn't even know them.
He was drinking for a reason!
He is beautiful even though he is unhappy at the moment, this shall pass. He just needs a nice woman to make him happy. That woman gotta be on amazing woman to make Brad happy after all this.
He now looks the best for years. When he was with Angelina, he was bloated, Angelina was singing praise what a wonder father he was. I guess Angelina was lying. but I don't think the divorce is only solution, she could get him to quit drinking.
He looks healthy in pics at art studio. Good for him. I don't think Angelina is good for him. it was wrong from the beginning. Now he fixes his own problem, find a better woman.
Jolie is having a moment of vindication but her issues and behaviours have not just gone away.
She has shown over and over in myriad ways that she isn't.
He looks sad but he is breathtakingly gorgeous. He is Brad Pitt
He has all the symptoms of an abused man. He took all the blame when she is the driving force behind his reason to drink. If she is a saint why is his her third marriage? Why would the two men before her ran away? All the kids should be taken away from her. He is the sane parent.
I wouldn't be surprised if she forced him to do this interview taking all the blame as a condition for seeing the children. Then she can go back to being a saint.
She has history of blanking family when they don't live up to her expectations.... look at her relationship with her father for a start.
Is he taking the blame as she wants a clear run at British politics.
One day he'll realise just how lucky he was to escape this woman!
sounds to me that old 'bo ob job can't wear a bra anymore' (yes indeed, sheeple ; ) Angie made sure he talked about his drinking issue. A to xic narci s sist like her would want the leverage of Brad 'admitting ' how bad he is too make her look good - esp. if he wants to see the kids without spending milions on lawyers. Too many have no idea how calculated NPD's are. They look to ensure themselves often being much worse is diminished or totally hidden...
Did she make you say these things so you could see the kids? Blink twice.
How many guys his age are as good looking as him? I would venture not too many.
I think he's pretty gorgeous personally.
I think he's aging well.
He looks good for a w h ite dude. He is aging fine. Looks distinguished..
People are harping on about how terrible he looks.....he's getting older ,we all age! Many are denied old age early. So embrace your laughter line and look upon your wrinkles as a face that tells a story.
Really like your honesty Brad - best wishes to you and the children x
Impressed by Brad Pitt's honesty. Wish him well.
Nannies at their ages.. comm'on. Also you eat what is served at the table... that's good education. But its not my business. It takes a lot of work, honesty and humility to admit your faults and even more to try and correct them. Bravo to Brad Pitt for taking the right steps.
Life is truly a one long lessson to us all......you live and learn from your mistakes which goes to say 'older and wiser'. He knows he has made mistakes and learning it and that is commendable.....some people just don't learn from their own mistakes! I say good luck to Brad and wishes him happiness will find its way to him again.
Their backgrounds were vastly different and this usually becomes a problem when the kids arrive. Angie grew up with nannies no normal schooling, living in separate quarters from her grief stricken mother. Brad grew up with midwestern values and attended public schools.
Not entirely convinced he hasn't been coerced into giving this interview to ensure he gets access to his kids, and dispel the myth that being married to Angelina would drive any man to drink!
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