There’s a kickass piece on Brad Pitt in this month’s W magazine, and really the whole thing’s worth a read, but he does discuss the firestorm that erupted when Jennifer Aniston stated that “what Angelina did was really uncool.”
Over the course of the next 90 minutes, Pitt proves to be unfailingly gracious, good-humored and game for all questions, including those about his life with Angelina Jolie and their brood of six, whom he refers to as “this cuckoo’s nest that we got going on over there.” He even responds to the latest installment of the Brad-Jen-Angelina saga. In November Jennifer Aniston told a journalist that an earlier comment from Jolie—that she and Pitt fell in love on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and so the film “might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe”—was “uncool,” because Aniston and Pitt were still married during filming. “Listen, man, Jen is a sweetheart,” Pitt says, as if to settle this thing once and for all. “I think she got dragged into that one, and then there’s a second round to all of that Angie versus Jen. It’s so created.” Of his current relationship with Aniston, he says, “We still check in with each other. She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don’t see how there cannot be [that]. That’s life, man. That’s life.”
A few sentences into the next topic, though, Pitt circles back to defend Jolie’s honor. “What people don’t understand is that we filmed [Mr. & Mrs. Smith] for a year,” he explains. “We were still filming after Jen and I split up. Even then it doesn’t mean that there was some kind of dastardly affair. There wasn’t. I’m very proud of the way that it was handled. It was respectful. [The film] will mean something to our kids. It will, that’s all.”
And as for the photo shoot that accompanies this article?
Pitt requested that artist Chuck Close, known for his superdetailed daguerreotype portraits that reveal every skin flaw, shoot the pictures accompanying this story. Pitt has always been a master of using press images to convey messages about his life, as when he and photographer Steven Klein created a provocative shoot in this magazine that depicted him and Jolie as a Fifties-era married couple with kids—before they had publicly acknowledged their love affair. Close suggests that the actor, who showed “no vanity” during the sitting, is once again playing with public perception.
“You can’t be the fair-haired young boy forever,” says Close. “At some point he’ll have to become some sort of character actor. Maybe a photograph of him with his crow’s-feet and furrowed brow is good for him. It humanizes him. It makes him less of a cinema god and more of a person.”
For a breakup that happened so long ago, why are these three still talking about it?
Because the media loves to talk about it.
sorry. don’t care. except why’d i post?
I like him so much more now that he’s with Angelina.
First: He’s still way freaking hot. Pores, furrowed brow, crow’s feet and all!
Second: Chuck Close kicks ass! I love that he specifically chose him for the shoot.
Brad is Robert Redford for our generation.
pretty sure I’m STILL in love with robert redford!
When I saw those pictures, Robert Redford is the 1st thing I thought of.
And I don’t care what he says, I still think he screwed Jen over for Angelina.
If they’re all cool with it, then who cares?
Maybe jen didn’t want kids and Angie did?
Regardless I think that Brangelina is a better couple.
He is sooo awesome… hot, classy, sexy… love him. I don’t think he wants to rehash the Jen thing but everyone else wants to make it into something horrible. Good for him to set the record straight that Jen is a good person and they have a friendship base regardless of their marriage not working out. I love him more than ever.
He’s so mature with his mustache.
Oh Brad, I love you so much. Ebomber was right; he’s definitely our generation’s Robert Redford.
As for the tired old love triangle crap, I feel really bad for Brad, Angelina and Jennifer. It’s not their fault that the press keeps dragging out the past. They’re all very gracious and answer the questions asked of them, and this is why we keep hearing about the Brangeliniffer Saga.
You combined all three names in one
…and they said it couldn’t be done.
Well, I try.
I really love the daguerreotype shots. It’s a great medium (though I do wish the pose were more classical – the panoramic closeup is just awkward).
And I can never really blame Aniston, Pitt, or Jolie for talking about all that. They do get dragged into it by reporters, and if they were to provide no comment, that would be the story. Best to just be blandly gracious and hope your career or philanthropy could be the narrative associated with your persona.
see? all you people commenting on previous posts before about him cheating on Jen are uncool. and probably wrong. people need to get over that shit.
love brad and angelina. trying not to hate jen so much……
:)
LOL I love that comment… LOVE Brad and Angelina trying not to hate Jen as much… I agree…maybe she is ok… Brad liked her at some point… and I think he rocks so maybe she’s ok. ;)
mmkay. Now let’s see Angelina with crows feet and a furrowed brow. She could use some humanizing :)
it doesn’t matter, brad in those pics: duh, still hot!
you know, for being 2009, and as fickle as hollywood gossip is, I am astonished that the tabloids persist with this “saga” that should have ended years ago.
Ditto Lizbeth. Hasn’t their marriage been over now longer than it lasted in the first place? Why does the gossip about it last longer than the event itself?
He’s still hot, though I think his choices in women could use work. They’re all annoying, starting with Juliette Lewis, right up to the fake saint Angelina.
fake st Angelina is right. Foohey.
I am sure she made him set it straight so she wouldn’t look like the homewrecker she is. I am sure if this happened to any one of the average women who are slobbering all over Angie, they would sing a different tune.
Jen is over it, the media is not. Why hate Jen because the media keeps it up? All she did was lose a husband, and make one comment that what Angie did was uncool. Which was a nice word for what her and Brad did.
Brad is a louse. There is no way they did not have a dastardly affair.
They rubbed Jen’s nose in all of it
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