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Brad Pitt Brad Pitt takes a break from filming his latest sequel Ocean's Twelve. Pitt discusses plastic surgery, dealing with fame, being a journalism major and of course, his wife Jennifer Anniston. Although Pitt caught IFQ's eye when he starred as Louis de Pointe du Lac in Interview with a Vampire, he heated things up in Fight Club, Snatch and his latest blockbuster hit Troy. You would never know that he once worked in a chicken costume for El Pollo Loco. IFQ: On MTV, there were twins who wanted plastic surgery to look like you. What do you think about that? Brad Pitt: Well, it's a sad comment on our time because not trying to improve yourself or do something using today's technology to change something that really bothers you and is going to free you and not keeping you in your closet is one thing. I think there's no argument to be made for that. You just have to be careful where you're going, and in what hands you're placing yourself in and that's that people don't understand or do the research. We're really missing the point about the context and it is not the idea to look like someone else or be someone else. There needs to be emphasis or certainly the guidance that you need to find the best you. You want to free yourself. You don't want to alter yourself. IFQ: How do you deal with fame? BP: There was no handbook on fame, and I certainly didn't understand it or have any idea what fame was. I didn't know why I was drawn to films other than they were a great schooling for my growing up. It pointed me towards the world and other ideas of how I could live my life instead of just the vacuum I was living in. So that was my first draw. I was not chasing fame. It was to a much more subtle concept; like fear of death, fear of meaningless, fear of your life not amounting to anything, trying to leave some sort of monument to it, like that's going to give you some inner peace or self worth. IFQ: You are quite buff in the film Troy! How much did you have to work out? BP: I had to work out a lot. There's a lot of emphasis on that, but really, it's just what we do. We always changed hair, dialect, whatever it takes to get into the part. But this one did have a lot of physical demand on research and a great demand on the dialect. It demanded an isolated kind of life. Yeah, I took the physicality very seriously. I had time to get into it. IFQ: It is a fact that you have set the standard for male perfection. BP: Listen, I don't. I don't know if that's true. I'm hung like a hamster (laughs). Sorry (laughs). IFQ: Is it true that you quit smoking? BP: It is true. It's also true that I started again. Should I just light it up? Fuck it. I started a couple of weeks before the end of shooting Troy. IFQ: Jennifer Anniston and you are producing a movie about Daniel Pearl. Will you act in it, as well? BP: Yes, we're developing Mariane Pearl's book A Mighty Heart. We won't be in it; we're just developing it as a script. It's a story that I'm very much drawn to. As you read the book what you see is this horrible scenario and they're trying to trace his steps and save Daniel. They form in this house, this little microcosm of world peace in a way, all working to save someone, to help someone. You have a Pakistani, you have an Indian, Persian, and American, on and on it goes and that little microcosm is what really sets a great example for me. IFQ: You studied journalism. Tell me about your experience. BP: Yeah, I was in journalism school. I went to the University of Missouri and that was the best they had available. I didn't really learn, though. I studied for two years and I kind of went in through the design sequence, so I only took entry level--like, Journalism 101. I'm just saying that I'm not your equal. I don't know as much. IFQ: What was the most surprising thing to you when you first became famous? BP: That anyone cares (laughs). And I don't mean that in a really caring way, but I mean what color your hair is. IFQ: People magazine says that your wife is the most beautiful woman in the world BP: (Smiles) Yeah, I'm very proud of Jen. IFQ: Are you with Jennifer on wanting to have children? BP: I'm very much with her (smiles). We're still having rehearsals IFQ: She says you're the funniest guy in the world. Why don't you ever do comedies? BP: No, my humor is really irreverent. I don't think it will work so well, but I consider things like Snatch a comedy. That's my comedy, really IFQ: You're in the press at the moment because of some outrageous rumors. Does that piss you off or does it amuse you? BP: (Laughs) It either builds us up or takes us down. They make us better than we are and then less than we are. Some of it we just don't pay attention to now. When I started out, it was all about justice and being understood and that's not right and how could they do that! Fact check! Then somewhere along the way I just kind of gave up on it, I just figured it's all part of our time and now we really don't pay attention to it. We kind of turn our backs to it. We don't go there. IFQ: Are you looking forward to getting older? BP: : I don't know. I find age 40 a real badge of honor instead of something that's going to freak me out. With it comes wisdom and no excuses. I can't blame things on my parents anymore. I'm responsible for my choices and it's up to me to make my life what it's going to be. So if it carries on that way, I certainly enjoy life more now than being a tormented twenty-something year old. |
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