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Brad Pitt: Being With Angelina Jolie is a Natural Direction

Brad Pitt: Being With Angelina Jolie is a Natural Direction

Brad Pitt reveals just how much portraying the backwards-aging title character in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has colored his perspective on his varied life. Sitting down with the L.A. Times, Brad shares new insights:

On age versus youth: “Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all… I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.”

On finding real love: “It’s a tragedy in the sense that any love involves loss, and that’s the risk you take. And the greater the love, the greater the loss. I certainly feel that now with the woman I’m with, and the children that I have. But whatever the course may be, this time together is extraordinary.”

On how being with Angelina Jolie changed his life: “I had a whole other life and I got to experience a lot. And I probably got away with more than I should. And it kind of ran its course, you know, it kind of hit a dead end. [Fatherhood is] the direction I always thought I would go in. But not until, with Angie and it felt like a natural evolution, a natural direction.”

On his work as an actor: “I don’t have to grope as much for the character… I can get there quicker, so it’s not as much trial and error. Also, as I get older, more experiences, I’m more fine-tuned in what I’m after, what I think speaks in the piece. And lastly I want to hurry and get home to my kids.”

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lol @ 12/26/2008 at 1:03 pm

So today we know that it was Brad who wasn’t in a big hurry to have Jen’s babies. We were wrong all along thinking that she wouldn’t give him the family he always wanted!
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I wouldn’t say that. Brad was willing to have kids with her but after the end of 2002 I believe that was the end of him wanting to have kids with her. Those two yrs not working and being around her all the time sealed it for him.
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Also when they got married, she was supposed to start the family soon after. She said she wasn’t ready, and Brad gave her TWO years. She was also supposed to finish Friends at this time, but what did she do at the end of the two yrs; sign up for another season of her sitcom.

QQQQ @ 12/26/2008 at 11:29 am

Don’t be mad because Brad is letting the world know that life with the HAG became a DEAD END and HE DID NOT want to have kids with her. She was NOT mother material in his mind.

Had to repost this. I love it and up your —— haters.
Good posting QQQQ.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

passing Through @ 12/26/2008 at 1:18 pm

# 40 QQQQ @ 12/26/2008 at 11:29 am
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Don’t be mad because Brad is letting the world know that life with the HAG became a DEAD END and HE DID NOT want to have kids with her. She was NOT mother material in his mind.
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ROTFLMAO. Yeah…you know X is sitting in her cold and loney 10,000 square foot mansion reading and re-reading Brad’s LA Times story, toking on a spliff and muttering under her breath, “Shite! Now I’m going to have to go to Los Cabos a week early! Or maybe I should call Stephen and ask him to get me the Maxim cover. I can dispense with the tie and show the nips on Maxim! That’ll show Brad!”

Beckah @ 12/26/2008 at 12:13 pm

Is he going to Break up with his kids as well? :roll:

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Is he preparing the world about his break up with his kids? As you can read , He is talking about his great love ones. His Angie and his kids. And whatever course which will take them from him.

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I don’t know about your IQ , But my IQ is telling me , He can’t break up with his kids. What do you think? I know it is a very hard work for you , To think. But At least try for it. Then you may stop sounding really Stupid.

off topic @ 12/26/2008 at 1:19 pm

Tom and Gisele are engaged!

off topic @ 12/26/2008 at 1:22 pm

leo and his girl pregnant.

Jaffacake @ 12/26/2008 at 1:23 pm

Such an *******..

What’s gonna happen when they break up? Will all this come back and bite him on his ass?

passing Through @ 12/26/2008 at 1:23 pm

# 44 Ashley Banks @ 12/26/2008 at 11:36 am
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He hit a dead end and he didn’t want kids until Angie? he’s either a liar or just a jerk… he could be both… I remember youtube video of this fool crying about children on TV talking about it’s time for rugrats. Whaaaaaat? now he says this.
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Ya know…some days I almost forget what an idiot you are. The vid you’re referring to was an O12 cast interview and it wad done in mid-December 2004. He had long ago made the decision to dump X and they were simply waiting until after the new year to make the announcement. He was more than content to go on that vacay and act like everything was hunky-dory because he knew the end of the road was a mere 10 days away. And I’m willing to bet the pea that passes as your brain that he knew he was going after Angie and Mad BEFORE he dumped X. Waiting 6 weeks because she was out of the country probably just about killed him. THAT is why he was crying about wanting kids, ya moron!

ATTN: Ashley Banks #48 @ 12/26/2008 at 1:24 pm

I know more believe you saw the movie than I believe the earth is flat. You are a liar. Yeah, I called you a liar. You want people to believe you paid dman good money in a bad economy to see a movie with someone you don’t like anyway, and do so because your ass was forced to? Go back to the drawingboard and come up with a better pile of bull to shovel ok.

I think it’s hard for fluffy, middle- of- the- road people to understand his interviews or his choices. They are used to something a little more obvious, simple to understand that is why they prefer Mr Pitt’s ex. and good luck to you. The world is made up of all sorts. Some prefer the complex, something you need to think about whilst others prefer the obvious, a quick fix. For me BP comes across as someone who wants the complexity of life, likes a challenge. JA on the other hand comes across as someone who is afraid of it and prefers to remain in comfort both mentally and physically. They are chalk and cheese. Those people that go on blogs and put Mr Pitt down know that the real reason they do it is because they prefer him to anyone else his ex will ever find again….mannered, kind, thoughtful, talented and the looks to match….a rare combination.

passing Through @ 12/26/2008 at 1:28 pm

# 46 I bet Brad is damn glad @ 12/26/2008 at 11:38 am
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Gwyneth broke up with him. He thought that was the love of his life. He settled for Jen, and then the real deal named Angelina showed up and you know, YOU KNOW he’s loving her more than he EVAH thought he loved another woman. Aah, such a love story.
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Putrid DID NOT break up with Brad. HE broke the engagement when she confessed to cheating on him. SHE wanted to continue. HE didn’t want to put up with yet another woman cheating on him. He’d been down that road twice before Putrid and had had enough - even though she was “my angel, my life”. His angel turned out to be Lucifer in disguise. (I threw that in because I know how much the trolls like quoting scripture to us…)

A and B Fan @ 12/26/2008 at 1:29 pm

http://www.latimes.com/en…2008dec26,0,4238161.story

As everyone but a handful of Himalayan monks doubtless knows, the woman who sleeps by Pitt’s side these days is Angelina Jolie, with whom he shares parenting duties for six children (three of their own, three adopted). During an interview of an hour’s duration, Pitt refers repeatedly to his satisfying home life and the way it has refashioned his priorities.

“I had a whole other life and I got to experience a lot. And I probably got away with more than I should,” he says. “And it kind of ran its course, you know, it kind of hit a dead end.” Fatherhood, he notes, is “the direction I always thought I would go in. But not until, with Angie and it felt like a natural evolution, a natural direction.”

Colleagues and friends who’ve witnessed it confirm Pitt’s gradual metamorphosis. Even though he has known the actor for 15 years and directed him in two previous movies, the gruesome crime-thriller “Se7en” and the darkly satirical “Fight Club,” Fincher says he was unprepared “for the degree to which he [Pitt] has become comfortable with who he is,” both on set and off.

“I think a lot of it has to do with his family,” Fincher says. “It’s like he wants to cut to the chase and go at the thing, and get it and work it and play with it and then be done with it and live to act another day.”

Pitt agrees that, as he has matured professionally, “I don’t have to grope as much for the character.”

“I can get there quicker, so it’s not as much trial and error,” he says. “Also, as I get older, more experiences, I’m more fine-tuned in what I’m after, what I think speaks in the piece. And lastly I want to hurry and get home to my kids.”

Oh Lordy Mr.Pitt you were brilliant in TCCOBB.. I cried and i laughed but this was one of the best films i have ever seen. This movie has been called oscar worthy in the many articles i have read lately and now i can relate. Hoping you win that oscar this year you certainly deserve it..
Also love this interview. Brad spoke from the heart about his love for Angie. This put everything into perspective as to why Brad told his audience in early 04 that he didn’t want to have children . He didn’t want a child with his ex b/c the merger was on its last leg.
Brad was kind in 04 in saying no children for us. Saying something to the effect that he wouldn’t be sharing the ex with anyone else.
I was like What?? When he said that not knowing he knew yrs before we did that as long as he stayed with his er friend there would be no children to speak of.
I couldn’t see a man like Brad Pitt who wanted children since his first interview suddenly not wanting them anymore. At the time it didn’t make sense.
HA It sure does now and has for awhile.

So the truth comes out and we get Brads opinion on it which was everything the ex didn’t want the world to know.
His old marriage hit a dead end and was going nowhere. There would be Zero children. Well that says it all. His ex can continue to be jealous of Brads love for Angie but she sounds like a women with no pride… surely desperate.
Love the film TCCOBB and loved this interview.
Thanks Jared.

Happy Holidays to all JP Fans.

finally Brad is opening up. Love it. Love them.

smelly feet @ 12/26/2008 at 1:33 pm

BRAD CHEATED ON HIS WIFE.

passing Through @ 12/26/2008 at 1:35 pm

# 48 Ashley Banks @ 12/26/2008 at 11:44 am I
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Nobody here gives a shite if you like the movie or not as long as YOU PURCHASED A TICKET TO HELP CCOBB HAVE A BIG OPENING!
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So thanks, a s s w i p e.

ATTN: tizzy #111 @ 12/26/2008 at 1:36 pm

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# 111 tizzy @ 12/26/2008 at 1:26 pm I think it’s hard for fluffy, middle- of- the- road people to understand his interviews or his choices. They are used to something a little more obvious, simple to understand that is why they prefer Mr Pitt’s ex. and good luck to you. The world is made up of all sorts. Some prefer the complex, something you need to think about whilst others prefer the obvious, a quick fix. For me BP comes across as someone who wants the complexity of life, likes a challenge. JA on the other hand comes across as someone who is afraid of it and prefers to remain in comfort both mentally and physically. They are chalk and cheese. Those people that go on blogs and put Mr Pitt down know that the real reason they do it is because they prefer him to anyone else his ex will ever find again….mannered, kind, thoughtful, talented and the looks to match….a rare combination.

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There ya go. Good post. If it’s deeper than the space between the sidewalk and the street it’s not a road people want to travel. You can look inside the interviews while they were married and find shitloads of evidence that they were on different paths most times.

Anybody seen his Rose interview before? he’s talking on camera about how Jennifer doesn’t get his interest. Or when he was on Oprah once and talked about JEn gotta tell her girls everything.

I love Brad but he was wrong. He knew she wasn’t the one and he married her. I don’t know why people do that ****.

Jaffracake #108
Here’s your answer:

‘But whatever the course may be, this time together is extraordinary.”

I think this is called living your life for yourself and not for other people.

passing Through @ 12/26/2008 at 1:28 pm
He’d been down that road twice before Putrid and had had enough
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PT, I know first was Jill Schoelen, who was second?

smelly feet @ 12/26/2008 at 1:33 pm BRAD CHEATED ON HIS WIFE.

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Good for him. Why just let his EX wife cheats on him with Mark’s cousin. If she cheated , Why wouldn’t he? :lol:

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At least there are actual stories about Hag’s cheating on Brad and some Papz saying she was fooling around when Brad was away in 2003. But there are no reports of Brad ’s cheating.

passing Through @ 12/26/2008 at 1:39 pm

# 49 solid @ 12/26/2008 at 11:46 am
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I love that slap in X face. She thought, that she can say, about Brad’s great love, anything she wants, and remains unpunished. But what i more like, that how he’s doing this, not even mention X name, never stooped to X level. Brilliant!
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Yeah…that’s the real beauty of all of the comments Brad has made - they’re veiled but only a complete moron can’t lift the veil and to see what he’s really saying. X prolly had to read it 3 or 4 times before she realized he’d dissed her AGAIN without ever mentioning her by name. And you know that’s killing her - that he refuses to acknowledge her existence publicly. Kudos to Brad for knowing where and how to stick the knife in X’s ribs. I was going to say “heart” but the btich ain’t got one.

passing Through @ 12/26/2008 at 1:41 pm

# 54 pattyanne @ 12/26/2008 at 11:50 am
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Uh…why are you bothering to change names? Save yourself some typing “Ashley”.

spicylily, thailand @ 12/26/2008 at 1:41 pm

To smelly feet # 115

Wake up already, PLEASE..

His EX wife was using Brad for years to climb up from a TV sit com to HW (lousy) an actress wan na be.

The more I saw her, the more I realize she has NO substances nor beauty nor brain.

He doesn’t own her or U or ME anything.

He has all the rights to live what he wants.
The marriage was in troubles before Angie came in.

Have a very good new year holiday, everyone.

Ashely’s pain is fun to watch and to top it off Will Smith flopped at the box office.

ballots are sent @ 12/26/2008 at 1:43 pm

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com
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Oh God. What a BS, all this so called “sources” and “insiders” .

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