On his Sexiest Man Alive status:
“Well, they’re not saying you’re the Biggest A–hole, you know? When you get older, you realize it’s just for fun. Clooney and I were able to have fun with it later. But in some ways, I’m still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma and I’m trying to find my way. By the way, we’re only talking about a blip. I didn’t spend much time thinking about it.”
On his joint "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" effort with Angelina Jolie: “A husband and wife who actually want to kill each other—I thought that was a launching pad for something really fun and vibrant. Again, that was something we were developing as we were going along, and Angie’s a great partner in that. We work really well together. We had some good workshops beforehand. Had some good laughs and ideas. That was just a great collaboration that turned into a greater collaboration.”
On the possibility of working alongside his lady in the future: “We should be doing them together—that’s what we should be doing. We should be doing everything together, and then we could work less. We could have more time off.”
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Brad Pitt gives a rare, three-and-a-half hour interview in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, speaking from London where he’s promoting Moneyball and shooting the zombie epic World War Z.
He talks about career highs, like meeting Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith:
“We had some good workshops beforehand. Had some good laughs and ideas. That was just a great collaboration that turned into a greater collaboration.”
He admits the couple may want to rethink their policy of never working at the same time — it helps with child rearing, but also means they can’t make movies together.
“We should be doing them together,” Pitt says, in the first in a series called The EW Interview, dedicated to icons reflecting on their careers.
“That’s what we should be doing. We should be doing everything together, and then we could work less. We could have more time off.”
The conversation covers many low moments as well, and Pitt is ruthlessly honest about his own failures. Told he looks miserable in 1994’s Interview with The Vampire, he says:
“I am miserable. Six months in the f—ing dark. Contact lenses, makeup, I’m playing the bitch role…”
Pitt says he was depressed by the colorless role and the dreary London shoot:
“One day, it broke me… I called David Geffen, who was a producer… I said,
‘David, I can’t do this anymore. I can’t do it. How much will it take to get me out?’
And he goes, very calmly, ‘Forty million dollars.’”
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excerpts from 2011.09.15 - EW.com
For more on Brad Pitt, including the truth behind his “rescue” of an extra on the set of “World War Z,” pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands September 16th (2011).
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