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Brad Pitt was interviewed by USA Today at the Toronto Film Festival last week. His intense character study The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford opens in limited release Friday and netted him the best-actor award at the Venice Film Festival.
On relating to his character Jesse James: “I understand the essence of paranoia. I understand being hunted, to some degree. I understand a bounty on my head. But the movie is about so much more. The real tragedy is that there was a chance he could have gotten past this moment. He’s wrestling with himself and lost that battle.”
On the Jolie-Pitts being like the Jesse James clan, which quietly shuffled from home to home to evade authorities: It’s impossible for us. We’re run out of every major city. There’s just too many paparazzi. There’s always cameras in the kids’ faces, yelling their names. Angie gets out of the car, and they take the camera down to the curb and shoot up (her skirt). It’s unbelievable. [That's why] there’s a constant negotiation in how to survive and how to maintain a family life.”
On having honed his instincts: “You develop radar. Like I know when there’s someone in the bushes 300 yards away shooting,. I know to recognize that feeling. (On the Canadian set), there was a guy in total camouflage, who commandoed his way on knee and elbow. And I know that feeling. It’s inexplicable, one of those instincts.”
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Sep 11, 2007 04:30 AM
Rita Zekas
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Angelina Jolie closed down The Toy Shop at Bay and Cumberland Sunday afternoon and most of Bay Street when she shopped for goodies for her brood. Her Darth Vader vehicle idled outside, swarmed by fans with cameras and paparazzi.
Later the same day, Jolie, consort Brad Pitt and Terrence Howard donated their gift bags from IT Lounge at the Windsor Arms to IT’s charitable affiliation, Big Brothers Big Sisters Toronto. Brangelina sent word via publicist because coming into the lounge would incite mass hysteria.
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on the interview, brad said that they have a big project that he plans to open with angelina, any ideas?
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TORONTO — There’s a reason Brad Pitt is as elusive as his latest character, slippery, sinister gunslinger Jesse James. He is today’s outlaw celebrity, living a nomadic existence with his family. There’s a sizable price on his head, as any paparazzo will attest. His face sells magazines, his presence inspires hysteria among fans, who abandon rational behavior for a glimpse, a touch, a photo. Like James and his gang, he travels with a posse of kids, security and a life partner.
So it’s hardly shocking that Pitt, 43, relates to the desperado he embodies in the intense character study The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. The nearly three-hour film, opening in limited release Friday, just netted Pitt the best-actor award at the Venice Film Festival, though the film itself is getting mixed reviews. Pitt’s Jesse James is a mercurial, mercenary killer with a mean streak, murdered by a member of his gang.
“I understand the essence of paranoia,” Pitt says. “I understand being hunted, to some degree. I understand a bounty on my head. But the movie is about so much more. The real tragedy is that there was a chance he could have gotten past this moment. He’s wrestling with himself and lost that battle.”
If Pitt wrestles with anything these days, it’s the media and fan frenzy that encroaches on his life but is necessary to sell his films and promote his causes.
For this interview at the Toronto Film Festival, Pitt at the last minute insists that director Andrew Dominik join him to keep questions squarely focused on the film. One thing is clear: He’s not interested in sharing touchy-feely details of life with partner Angelina Jolie, 32, and their kids Maddox, 6, Pax, 3, Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 1.
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He’s dressed casually in a tan shirt and gray newsboy cap as he lopes into the room accompanied by a small entourage of publicists and stylists. Knowing the effect his name and presence have, he makes an effort to bridge gaps and connect by extending his hand and saying, “Hi, I’m Brad.” But he never once makes eye contact.
At first, he tries to shift the attention away from himself entirely, pointing to a newspaper with fellow festival attendee Terrence Howard on the cover and saying, “That boy’s good.”
He praises his Babel wife Cate Blanchett, exclaiming happily when he learns she’s at the festival for Elizabeth: The Golden Age, calling her “exquisite” and “gorgeous,” and adding, “you can’t take a bad picture of her.”
He eventually does share a personal detail. He misses his children, who are back in New York: “Two days without the kids,” he mutters, shaking his head. But he’s not here to discuss his home life: “Personal anecdotes — what does that have to do with the movie?” he asks.
Perhaps the actor is still shaken up by the previous night’s premiere of Jesse James, which metastasized into a mob scene. “We had to come back here. We had to get under a garage,” he tells Dominik. “Nothing was cordoned off. There were no barriers.”
Toronto gossip columnist Lainey Lui (laineygossip.com), who has covered the festival for years, calls what unfolded “the biggest celebrity mob scene ever. Ever.”
Jolie and Pitt were in a car together, en route from their screening to the private after-party. “The crowd was so thick anyway, from people downtown on a Saturday night. And then, they were spotted,” Lui says. “The crowd started to find out that it was Brad and Angelina. People who were driving down on other streets left their cars and ran to see them. Seven people jumped on their car.”
Pitt and Jolie’s vehicle tried to inch forward. “We saw all these people running. People were holding up their cellphones (to take photos). This woman appears out of nowhere, runs up with her child, and was pushing her child up against the (moving) car. The lady was like: ‘I want my baby to see Brad Pitt.’ ”
Through it all, “Brad was yelling at the driver to drive, Angelina looked like a woman completely paralyzed. You could read her lips, and she kept saying, ‘Get back to the hotel.’ ”
None of his buddies — Matt Damon or George Clooney, say — have to deal with anything near the furor surrounding Pitt’s life.
424 to Sam: (((((BRAVO))))) Couldn’t have said it better myself. Why the fanistons are so deluded that Brad would go back to someone who did not value him at all, I have no idea!
wow sam girl is faMOUS NOW? BOTH LURKERS & FANS GOT HER ATTENTION.
JJ am i allowed to post on the Joliepitt thread today??
Fortunately, Brad and Angelina= love, happy family life, successful movie careers.
Unfortunately, Sam= loser, Sam’s life= misery, Sam’s well being= pathologically crazy.
Thank you jj!
You gave me a headache you know?? 9 days is a long time and you punished me like hell!
428 kay : 09/18/2007 at 11:15 am
on the interview, brad said that they have a big project that he plans to open with angelina, any ideas?
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WHAT INTERVIEW??, I WATCH ONE WHEN BRAD SAID THAT HE HAS A PRIVATE PROJECT BUT NOT SAID NOTHING ABOUT ANGIE.
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399 SAM
413 Patmycrotch
I FEEL SOOO SORRY FOR YOU HATERS. YOUR FULL OF HATE, AND IT’S KILLING YOU.
I WONDER WHAT YOUR MOTHER HAD DONE TO YOU. SOO SAD. NO LIFE. FULL OF HATE.
308 Rica : 09/18/2007 at 3:26 am
296 go Brad : 09/18/2007 at 2:32 a
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What exactly is your problem? You are more than a bit odd. Bradley does not want Cate, if he did he would have had her by now or tried to have her. He wanted Angelina. He went after Angelina (which he has admuted to) and he got her and quickly put his name on her children and his baby in her belly. Pitt is probably the smartest MF in HW he used America’s obsessive need for a ‘Golden Icon’ to rise to the top and stay there. Notice that of all the women he could have chosen, he went after the one woman who can stand on her own and had who had already established herself not only in HW but in the global scheme of Humanities; a woman who could introduce him to world leaders. She held more respect as a UN ambassador then he as an actor and she loved being a mother. He wanted that life and now he has it and neither Cate, Gwen, Julia nor Jennife could give him that.
Only one woman could and did. Her name is Angelina Jolie.
Don’t waste your time wishing their relationship over. Even if it ends today, she will still have been the most memorable and most loved woman of his existence.
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Excellent Post, Rica!
Sam -
Japan is a big market yet Derailed was NOT shown in Japan. Hahaha….Sam, Japan does NOT want a whiny, babyhater Jen.
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413 Patmycrotch
It’s the almost 40 ex-sitcom hag who’s following Brit trick showing off those crotch to draw public attention. the pap don’t need to take picture under the skirt, Jennifer Aniston unabashly show off those partially exposed aging crotch for public display on her Hawaii holiday. Oh yes, classy for Aniston for showing off her vajayjay at almost 40y/o while it’s a shame for the 25 y/o Britney. It’s also classy , caught not once but twice or thrice tanning topless at her razzi infested Malibu beach house and this always coincidence when she had something to promote.what a classy woman.
STILL A HOT PIECE!
LOL.. Sam/Famous!! Brad Pitt will never be yours, your Gay jealousy
will get you nothing but wet dreams.
I say you are one and the same because, no other MAN has come to
the JP threads with such a stick up their ass, and hating on Angie
like a wounded b@tch.
Brad and Angie 4ever! :smile:
For heavens sake, just go away Brad! Take your family that you seem to be soooo proud of and just move out of the country. Enough with making movies, etc. You and Angie have enough money to live off of comfortably for the rest of your lives. Just give your kids some consistency and a chance to live without the camera’s shoved in their faces. AND i’m sure angie just gets a thrill everytime the pap’s try to zoom in under her skirt! Otherwise why would should constantly be shot wearing them? She wears those tight skirts to the park, toy stores , etc. I would think she’d wear pants if the camera’s were such a problem. Are we suppose to feel sorry for them? They do this to themselves. Isn’t it odd that we haven’t seen any new photo’s of the family in awhile - guess it just goes to show that when they don’t want to be found they can easily get some privacy. Either that or the world is getting tired of their faces.
443 OMG
Oh yes, Angie should take a tip from Maniston, just parade those vajenjen out like X done in Hawaii.
443 OMG
what do you think of Jennifer Aniston showing off those hot butt,sagging boob, crotch for the razzi at Hawaii. ? at least Angie still wearing skirt.
hi, briseis..i’m from Quezon…been living and enjoying Chicago for quite some time now…LOL the bwisitors (aka trolls and jenloonies. etc.) on this site and on this thread are beyond help…they’re super TANGAhanga…
I really don’t get it why they’re here if they hate and are sick of the most gorgeous couple/family in the universe…PLAIN STUPIDITY I guess. If I don’t like someone, I could care less what they say or do, much more spend my precious time looking up how much their movie made, etc.
…and why hate and put down people who are doing their best to help others? what have they done that even come close? they say they’re fake and it’s for promo…SO WHAT if it’s true which we all know is not…so what? THE FACT is Brad and Angie have given of themselves AND IT HAS MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE in the lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of people! What have they done? WALA! Nothing! Zilch! NUFF SAID!
WHEN ANGIE HAS A MEETING WITH BILL CLINTON?
She will be in NYC for that.
I can’t wait to see her and the kiddies (from afar! as she asked about a year ago on CNN!)
THANK YOU, in advance.
as usual the twits have missed the point and can’t answer the question without going off on Jen. First of all, Jen was in the ocean wearing a bathing suit. Angie on the other hand complains that the pap’s try to get shots under her skirt and YET she continues to wear skirts. So what’s your answer to that big mouths? It’s because she loves the attention - it’s a sickness for her. Brad made that stupid comment about her skirt like she’s actually modest or something. She’s far from it.
422 To Sam - VERY WELL SAID…it takes two to tango as much as it takes two people to break up a marriage.
I think the following quote shows how much Brad and Angie value their loyal, loving and faithful fans and how they understand the genuine happiness we all feel just seeing them…“I understand the deal. It got chaotic last night, but there was genuine happiness, and it meant something to them.”
JUST REMEMBER FANS, LET US EVER CROSS THE LINE…”It only bothers me when they get in the kids’ faces.” - Brad
422 tidbit : 09/18/2007 at 11:12 am
OT
Celebrity Takes Up a Cause: Do Fans Follow?
When Stars Rally for Causes, Regular Folks Don’t Necessairly Open Their Wallets
By SHEILA MARIKAR
Sept. 17, 2007
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What an intellectually dishonest little scavenger the ‘writer’ of this article is!!
Like everyone else, she rides Angelina’s name to give her article reader-interest, yet, in making her point about how much a charity benefits from celebrity endorsement, she uses the obscure (and very recent) endorsement of the almost unknown former backstreet boy, Carter, to say that the charity doesnt benefit much from celebrity endorsement!
What a crack wh*re!
She clearly hasnt done any research! Just a check of the UN website or a call to their offices would give this little peabrain the facts about the phenomenal rise in donations the UNCHR receives every time Angie visits a refugee camp!!!
I so despise liars and nasty little coattail riders like this so-called writer.
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