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Pitt, a photographer himself, compared notes on cameras with Frank W. Ockenfels 3 during a Jan. 20 shoot at Siren Studios in Hollywood.
COVER STORY: Oscar Nominee Brad Pitt on The Unmentionables: Marriage, Politics and Religion
Pitt, a photographer himself, compared notes on cameras with Frank W. Ockenfels 3 during a Jan. 20 shoot at Siren Studios in Hollywood.
COVER STORY: Oscar Nominee Brad Pitt on The Unmentionables: Marriage, Politics and Religion
“Do I like being a celebrity? I don’t dislike it; I’m still doing it,” says Pitt. “If I decide to walk away from it, I could. But I don’t know if that is even realistic. I think as I become older, people will become less interested.”
Pitt names Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, as one of his all-time favorites, and can cite shot by shot from it, but it’s the films of the 1970s that most influenced his Oscar-nominated Moneyball.
“I had a run-in with a baseball in centerfield when I was younger that resulted in 18 stitches,” says Pitt of the sport that Moneyball revolves around. “I just figured it wasn’t my future. But since the movie, I find myself very soothed by the sport.”
“I used to deal with depression, but I don’t now, not this decade," Pitt reveals of being in a darker place in the late '90's. "I see it as a great education: ‘This semester I was majoring in depression.’ ”
“I am completely comfortable with not knowing about an afterlife," he admits of not really believing in religion. "What I do know is that I have this life and to make sure I have as few regrets as possible.”
Asked what people don’t know about him, Pitt jokes: “I’d rather just stay an enigma.”
“I’ve always been at war with myself, for right or wrong,” the actor, who will star in World War Z next, admits. “I don’t know how to explain it more. There’s that constant argument going on in your head about this or that. It’s universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain — not pain, arguments. I’ve grown quite comfortable with being at war.”