At 58 years old, Brad Pitt has decided to savor life and lead one movie after another. A project that has nothing to do with retirement, promises the actor from fight club during a meeting with journalists in Paris.
In a magazine interview QG At the end of June, the American star had evoked the feeling of living “the last semester” of his career. Words that had suggested the actor, revealed in Thelma and Louise in the early 1990s, he almost hung up his gloves.
“That’s not what I meant…” Pitt says, brushing aside the “retirement” idea. “What I wanted to say is that I am already facing the final stretch, the last season,” he says. And the question now is “how do I want to spend this time?”. “In any case, nothing to do with retirement,” she insists.
Come Monday night to present Bullet train, in theaters on August 3 in France, the actor plays the cool Californian card to the max, showing himself delighted to have participated in the film. Black humor and gags mark this police comedy set on a train between Tokyo and Kyoto, in which seven murderers try to kill themselves.
“From Movie to Movie”
“I like to make all kinds of movies,” says the man who has worked with such eclectic directors as Quentin Tarantino, Terrence Malick, David Fincher, Guy Ritchie and the Coen brothers.
“At my age, we’ve made enough mistakes and luckily we’ve accumulated enough experience to distinguish between what we did right and what we did wrong,” he says.
once upon a time in hollywood Tarantino’s film earned him an Oscar in 2020, and the actor has no shortage of projects. your next movie Babylondirected by Damien Chazelle (the earth), will take place in the golden age of Hollywood and will be an opportunity for Pitt to meet again with Margot Robbie, with whom he had filmed in Tarantino.
As a producer on Plan B, the actor is also very active and has seen three of “his” Oscar-winning films: the infiltrators, twelve years a slave Y Moonlight.
“I love it: you get to present new talents, you are part of projects in which you would not necessarily have your place as an actor,” he declares. “And the rest, I don’t know… I go from movie to movie, and the last thing I did decides what I do next,” he says.
Fan of the movie “Elvis”
In the debate that stirs the 7th art on streaming platforms, Brad Pitt chooses the middle path. “I like both streaming platforms and theaters,” he says, far from a Tom Cruise who wants to see his films released exclusively in theaters.
“Movies had gotten so expensive… There were big projects or more intimate things, and it seemed like there was no room for anything else in between,” says the actor. In this context, “platforms have opened the field to other voices,” he analyzes.
“I am impressed by the things I see,” he adds, his eyes sparkling. But at the same time “I just saw Elvis On cinemas. I’m a big fan of (actor) Austin Butler, I think he’s going to do great things. And I had such a good time, it was great to be back in the theater.”
“Brad isn’t just a legend, he’s a master at what he does. And I think we met him at a point in his career where he wants to have as much fun as possible,” says Brian Tyree Henry, one of the actors on bullet train. “His laugh is contagious.”
Source: BFM TV
