Brad Pitt is Hollywood’s Most Wanted Man
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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I normally don’t comment because I am super busy, but I am a HUGE fan of Brad and Angie, much more Angie. I cannot wait to see Angie walk the red carpet tomorrow. I get soooooooooo excited whenever I see her on the red carpet. There is no woman in Hollywood like her. She is just beyond gorgeous. When I was watching the Emmys yesterday there was no woman that really stood out. I think that the Emmys did bad because all of the people that were at the show was just plain and boring. Also, I think that if Brad and Angie does not go to any of the other events that all of the show will have bad ratings as well. Brad and Angie is the IT couple in Hollywood now. If they don’t show up to something, NO ONE will care. I look more forward to seeing Angie on the red carpet than Brad. She totally beats Brad in the look category, but they are a GREAT looking couple. They are the SEXIEST and GORGEOUS couple in the universe. There is NO woman in the universe that can beat Angie in the looks category. I think that majority of the people that show up to see Brad and Angie at the red carpet is there to see Angie and NOT Brad. I saw the footage of their red carpet in Toronto and when Brad shows up to the red carpet alone it is NEVER like that. The reason for the chaos is because of Angie. People want to see the MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD. This is my opinion so please do not get mad at me. I still love Brad and Angie together and I hope that they grow old together. I think that Brad is the best thing that ever happen to her and she knows that.
sam
when the numbers came talk to me!
MF: She is sooo Beautiful!! Oh my God!! delicious!! Thank you.
189 Missouri Fan : 09/18/2007 at 12:22 am
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#176, I usually don’t answer people like you but I want to let you know that Angelina has given more than $16 million to charity out of her own pocket, whereby AMH’s production cost is only $16 million. What is a big deal to you, is not a big deal to Angie and neither is it a big deal to her fans, so stop getting all worked up about box office numbers. God will surely bless this family as he always does whether you like it or not, people are praying for them and they will continue to make it. I’ll suggest you find another hobby.
Correction-I do not want to be as confusing as you are in your posts.
“I would never waste my time asking for any info for a film of the ex’s as YOU do re Brad and Angelina’s movies.”
176 Sam
Your remarkable obsession with the box office numbers proves nothing other than your narrow world view. You have no idea how divided the world is today along superficial fault lines, us vs. them, how self-congratulatory cultures can be when it comes to denying basic human rights to the “others” by killing, by forcing migration. Here is a cinematic work that has no claims other than getting a message of a one brave woman out, and yet all you can see is box office numbers, never the message itself.
So, what do you say — since your metric revolves only around box office numbers? Do you think J Foster’s movie, with its box office success, will leave more dents on the hearts and minds of its viewers, will be more memorable than AMH, and ultimately contribute more to the world we all inhabit?
If box office numbers are any indication of how we dream we should live, a prime message of any cinematic work, then your metric presents humanity nothing but hell.
A baby should not be news. How many times have the Jolie-Pitts said they want a large family? They have screamed it to the world. So it should be no surprise if Angelina is pregnant again. Most of you know it all’s swear that their next child would be adopted, complete with country picked out, the sex and the theory behind the choice. Neither Brad nor Angelina said they would adopt next or get pregnant next.
Jennifer Aniston is ASHAMED of you.
Pitt Turns Outlaw in `Jesse James’
By DAVID GERMAIN – 5 hours ago
TORONTO (AP) — While news about Jesse James crawled its way across 19th century America — compared to today’s lightning-fast Internet — the tone was uncannily comparable to today’s celebrity coverage, Brad Pitt found in reading those old accounts.
“I will say, I was surprised to see how tabloid journalism was alive and well even then and operating in the same way, just sensationalizing a complete fabrication of untruths,” said Brad Pitt, who stars as the legendary outlaw in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.”
“There’s just more of it today. There’s more of it in quantity, but the execution’s the same. In that day, when you only had a newspaper to get your information, that would have been the extent of it. But it doesn’t seem to have changed at all,” Pitt told The Associated Press at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Pitt and Angelina Jolie, stars of the 2005 hit “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” have been the quarry of celebrity photographers and the object of incessant tabloid gossip since they hooked up amid the breakup of Pitt’s marriage to Jennifer Aniston. A media vigil preceded the birth of their daughter in Namibia last year, and crowds swelled during the Toronto festival everywhere they went.
In the late 1800s, James was able to move anonymously through America under a series of aliases, but his notoriety was unparalleled. James’ image as a Robin Hood-style bandit of the people — a myth he helped perpetuate himself — had made him a folk hero to the public and a demon to the railroads.
Based on Ron Hansen’s novel, “Assassination of Jesse James” dissects the James myth to present a charismatic man in the last year of his life, as his sense of security crumbles and he is overwhelmed by paranoia that associates are selling him out to the law.
Into James’ inner circle comes young idolator Ford (Casey Affleck), who has grown up on romanticized stories of the outlaw’s deeds. Initially an intimate, Ford later becomes an object of scorn for Pitt’s increasingly unpredictable James.
Ford eventually feels compelled to become James’ executioner, coming to believe it’s almost a civic duty.
“I don’t know what led to his idea, the need to destroy the very thing that he worshipped, but that’s certainly what’s going on here. You have a demoralized boy, a boy who’s subject to humiliation, and in his quiet hours has this lust for the Jesse James celebrity, the Jesse James phenomenon,” said Pitt, 43.
“Then at the point where he meets Jesse James, meets his idol, and his idol spurns him, it becomes that thing, needing to destroy the thing you love to become equal with it again.”
At two hours, 40 minutes, “Assassination of Jesse James,” which opens Friday, is a challenging tale, yet one that has drawn praise for the lyrical melancholy of its 19th century landscapes and for the key performances. The film earned the best-actor prize at the Venice Film Festival for Pitt, a previous supporting-actor Academy Awards nominee for “Twelve Monkeys” who could be in contention for a lead-actor Oscar this time.
The celebrity mystique that surrounds Pitt meshed well with the mythic nature of James, said Andrew Dominik, director of “Assassination of Jesse James.”
“It was the sort of part that you could cast a movie star in and it would make sense,” Dominik said. “It wouldn’t be miscasting Brad, who you never really feel like you know on-screen. He’s always retained kind of an essential mystery. He’s not a person people really identify with. He’s more of an object to them. They aspire to be him, but they don’t really identify with him.
“Those were really good qualities for Jesse. They’re both enigmatic and charismatic.”
Pitt first caught widespread notice in a scene-stealing role in 1991’s “Thelma & Louise” and went on to star in such films as “Legends of the Fall,” “Spy Game,” “Troy” and last year’s acclaimed “Babel,” co-starring Cate Blanchett.
Blanchett and Pitt reunite for next year’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Pitt’s third film with David Fincher, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story about a man who is born old and ages backward toward infancy.
“He’s just so open. He’s a great player. Brad loves a good idea and a good conversation, and I think that extends to acting, really,” Blanchett said. “I think he’s got a really good nose for what works, and I think people will be blown away by him in `Benjamin Button.’”
Pitt now is shooting the Coen brothers’ dark comedy “Burn After Reading” with George Clooney, his partner in crime in “Ocean’s Eleven” and its two sequels.
While Pitt looks for roles that offer fresh dramatic possibilities, finding good work companions such as Clooney has become crucial in his job choices.
“As I get older, it’s the company I keep,” Pitt said. “It means something to me to have these friends out here and people I respect … Most of the movie is spent when the camera’s not rolling, and to work with these interesting people is really the most important thing to me.”
With his production company Plan B, Pitt also is active as a producer whose credits include Jolie’s recent drama “A Mighty Heart.” (He also was a producer on “Assassination of Jesse James.”)
Pitt jokes that the advantage of today’s celebrity culture is that people are not carrying six-shooters around the way they did in James’ day. Even so, as a new father, Pitt is mindful of the potential dangers that come with fame.
Along with their biological daughter, Pitt and Jolie have three children she adopted from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam.
“It’s something that I want to be aware of and be cautious about, especially with the family, that everybody’s protected,” Pitt said. “I mean it’s rare, but there are imbalanced people out there. I’ve had break-ins in the house … I’ve had some of these abnormal incidents that can be a bit frightening.”
When Pitt or Jolie is working, the other takes time off to tend the children, who travel with them wherever they are filming.
“We just take turns and make sure we keep the family together,” Pitt said.
Pitt is quick to acknowledge reporters’ questions about his and Jolie’s plans for more children.
“We’re not done. They say, any plans for a fifth? And I say, `And a sixth, and a seventh, and an eighth, and a ninth.’ That’s my answer. …….
“We also made a 9-foot-wide bed” that can fit him, Jolie and all four children, Pitt said. “Just big enough. One more and we’ll have to go to 11 feet.”
Okay guys, I am going to make a suggestion to JJ on here and I hope you will take it in the spirit in which it is intended.
The constant assault by the paps on the kids is ridiculous. It’s one thing to want to constantly photograph the parents, but chasing after the kids screaming their names day in and day out is tantamount to child abuse. No wonder the kids don’t want to smile at the cameras. What child in his/her right mind would, after being hounded like that?
The way I see it, we are all part of the problem. The paps wouldn’t be constantly harassing the kids if we weren’t constantly demanding photos. So, Jared, I am asking that you limit your threads to Brad and Angelina’s professional life or their relationship, but no more threads about taking the kids to school, the park, the playground, the art supply store, etc. etc. etc. Let’s all back off and give the kids some breathing space and just let them be kids.
Deal?
The Kiss
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40 Alexanderina : 09/17/2007 at 10:44 pm
24 CB : 09/17/2007 at 10:37 pm
are you for real?
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I’m afraid so. Real and enthusiastically dim.
Jennifer Aniston would never want such low life fans like you.
Don’t tell me to read sarcastic Jill. I been on this blog foever and I see things on everyone of you, regulars the most. I no bout it what you do.
Jennifer Aniston is in hiding because she is ashamed of you.
Hi MF.
Jennifer Aniston wants nothing to do with you.
189 Missouri Fan : 09/18/2007 at 12:22 am
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Those pics I posted are credit to little stinkers I met today @ JJB.
I registerd there so I can post my favorite last video i dedicate to all the lovely BAMPZS ladies and hot gents like cook, Daniel, Neil & Ariel!!
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I am tearful with your comments on this video..LOVE YOU!! HuGS & KISSES
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Be bAck 2morrow evening. I have to see my nature romantic writers. Bye!
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Foolish one,this garbage has been posted and laughed at. Will Rogers was so right, “You can’t fool all of the people all the time, but you can fool some of the people all the time”. You belong in the latter group as TedC knows nothing and has no contacts to tell him anything. Marc Malkin is the e! gossip who gets the goods. Everyone knows that. LOL.
So it should be no surprise if Angelina is pregnant again.
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And it should be no surprise if they adopt again. Although I get the sense that some fans would be happier if they had another bio baby then adoption.
I think we are getting tricked. Brad’s screen time is less than Casey Affleck’s.
The same with Beowulf. Angelina is in it for 15 minutes sort of like Captain & the World of Tomorrow.
Crazy Wooden Legs
210 Joker
Pitt is quick to acknowledge reporters’ questions about his and Jolie’s plans for more children.
“We’re not done. They say, any plans for a fifth? And I say, `And a sixth, and a seventh, and an eighth, and a ninth.’ That’s my answer. …….
“We also made a 9-foot-wide bed” that can fit him, Jolie and all four children, Pitt said. “Just big enough. One more and we’ll have to go to 11 feet.”
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Super sweet!
Brad and Angie are ashamed of you.
Brad and Angie would never want such low life fans like you.
Brad and Angie is in hiding because she is ashamed of you.
Brad and Angie wants nothing to do with you loonies.
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