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Brad Pitt is known for keeping his heart not quite on his sleeve, but rather somewhat protected. When asked about Angelina Jolie or their children, he answers but he does it a little bit quietly, as though reluctant to divulge too much. In an interview awhile back Brad mentioned that he worries that talking about them too much in quick interview snippets somehow cheapens what they are and mean to him – almost as though he can’t put it all into strong enough words in a brief exchange on the red carpet.
For the people who have been wishing Brad would talk about his feelings towards his family just a little more candidly – you know, those of us who are hopeless romantics at heart – this article at Parade.com is what we were all waiting for.
Some highlights:
The right to love.
“Man, I resent people telling others how to live! It drives me mental! Just the other night, I heard this TV reverend say that Angie and I were setting a bad example because we were living out of wedlock, and people should not be duped by us! It made me laugh. What damn right does anyone have to tell someone else how to live if they’re not hurting anyone? How many times do you think real love comes to someone in a lifetime? If you’re lucky, maybe two or three.”Admitting his fears.
“Angie’s mom died a couple of years ago of cancer. I haven’t had to face a lot of death. I’m untried in that way, and I don’t know how I will deal with it. My real fear at this point is the safety and health of Angie and the kids. The fear of losing them is what keeps me up at night.”
And also this one which may make you need to fan yourself or take a cold shower:
About the secret stone grotto behind the waterfall in his pool…
“[It's] a great place for sex.”
Woohoo!
The full article won’t be available online until Friday, August 7th, but you can check out the rest of the snippets which are a great look inside who Brad Pitt really is off-screen and off the red carpet.
Image: Parade
Shilohfan- That makes sense. I think what Sherry meant is that usually, when JA is brought up in a post, especially the way you brought her up (i.e. talking about whether or not he was happy with her), the post tends to deginerate into the old “Did Brad cheat on JA with Angie?” debate, and, invariably, 2005 ends up getting re-hashed yet again.
Danielle say.
Thank you for you post you pretty much say everything I wanted to say but I really can not take the back and forth conversation. I just say what I feel and go away. That is what I learnt over the four year trial, happiness is the ultimate goal of all our life journey.
I just wanted to know that he made his own decisions he was not stolen or he was not the insentitive person they made him out to be. How come both people are so happy now that they are apart.
Danielle says:
……All that said, this interview was very telling in Brad seems to be happy with his partner and the family they’ve created together. Good for him
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This interview was done at their home and Brad even guided around his house(pools,too). He seems very confident with himself now. Even Japanese interpreter wrote that Brad impressed her as more manly and more confident man this year. She had been interpretator whenever he was in Japan and didn’t evaluate him highly in the past. So new Brad surprised her.
Sherry, for me, in order to be able to admire someone wholeheartedly sometimes I want to learn about their past so that I can understand them more.
I didn’t know anything about Angelina before. I just watched her movie and all
forgot about them. But I started to like her because of her humanitarian works. I did search a lot about her works and now I admire her very much as a human being. As for Brad I did the same and now I understand about his life.
I read some comments in other sites but never participated in. This is the only site that I feel I can share my comments with.
I think people here have analytical mind and they tried to gather all information and analyse them. We had to bring Jen in sometimes because she was
also in his past. Anyway, thank you for reminding us and we’ll keep this site friendly -oriented forever. Love
thanks Sherry for this respectful website!!!!!its the best!!!
thank you for your hard work and all the info!
Brad gave various interviews already and this one was the clearest. just that some people read what they want to read and because of this don’t get what he is saing….many of the recnt rumors would not exist if people would just read what he ACTUALLY said and don’t interpret into this what they want to hear…..
913 days ago
[...] other day I posted some of the sneak peek snippets from Brad’s interview and it was already wonderful. Reading the full thing is even better. [...]
Folks, please. PLEASE. I’d appreciate it if we could just focus on Brad’s interview and his current relationship/family situation. It does us no good to speculate on whether he was happy, never fulfilled, etc. Obviously he wasn’t happy enough in the end, but none of us can legitimately say that he was never ever happy with Jen or else they wouldn’t have been together as long as they were.
The problem is that once we start this conversation it almost always slips into a downward spiral. Let’s save talking about Jen for websites devoted to her and stick with Brad, Angelina, and the kids. PLEASE.
Thanks!
I’ve found this video in other site. Looking at Brad’s face, I feel so sad
for him. She didn’t even mention his name eventhough he was there with all her Friends’s cast. Their souls were not together. That’s all I can say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylz6uEh7q7o
Kim,
I think some comments you responded were confusung with Brad’s another interview done for CCOBB. I remember in that interview he said before meeting Angie his life was not fulfilled and it was going nowhere.
In another interview he said he went through slump period around 1999-2002. I don’t know his personal life but I would say his film work 1999-2004 was not great. His ambition as an actor was nowhere around that time. No challenge. No risk taking though he was known as a risk taker before.(Fight club, Twelve Monkeys). He must be looking for new direction when he was in late 30′s. Then he found new direction in Babel, AOJJ, CCOBB and The tree of Life. I believe he is much more confident with himself now and is abble to give more candid interview. He got high return from high risk.
Kati,
When local paper wrote Jolie-Pitts donated money to St. John the article said Jane has 14 grandchildren. I thought it was wrong number because I knew Brad has 6, Doug has 3, Julie has 4 (one adopted). Then I found someone from Springfield responsed to my comment that Julie took newly adopted boy to their church this year.
sunny – where did you read that Brad´s sister Julie has adopted two boys from Ethiopia? I do believe you but I´ve been reading of only one adopted Ethiopian boy. So Zahara has not one but TWO Ethiopian cousins. She must be really thrilled! And maybe some day she´ll have an Ethiopian brother or sister in her own family!
jaye
Think of it this way, If the gay population want to get married let them, if they want to be tied to one person for the rest of their lives or until it is time for a really expensive divorce who are we to stand in their way. Let them be as miserable as the rest of us, and then they can realize how good they had it, when its too late to turn back.
And just to let you know were this is coming from I don’t believe in organized religion (that would be any and all churches). Although I do like the architecture of churches, I don’t like how they got the money to build them.
Loved,loved,loved this interview! It tells everything abouth the real Brad. His loves and his fears. I found that part where he said the following of Angie and the kids really touching: “My real fear at this point is the safety and health of Angie and the kids. The fear of losing them is what keeps me up at night.” That proves how important his family is to him. He loves Angie and their children very, very much and the worst thing that could happen to him is that he would suddenly lose them. I´m sure that his life wouldn´t be worth living anymore if something terrible happened to one of them. So it´s no wonder that he is worried when Angie goes to her goodwill ambassador duties to all those war-torn areas all around the world. But there was also some fun parts in that interview too. Like the one where he told where he and Angie like to have sex. Maybe someone will find it too revealing but Brad has learnt to be a little bit ore open about his private life while being with Angie. Some things are naturally better be kept as secrets but I don´t find anything wrong with that revelation. God bless Brad, Angie and their adorable children!
This was a fantastic article – I feel like we really got a peek at Brad’s life with Angie. I love the part where Angie was walking in with the girls – their day to day life must just be so much fun!
kim says:
August 7, 2009 at 9:28 am
…Just because you change directions in your life doesn’t mean you were unhappy, or unfulfilled it just means you need new challenges and you need to take a new direction in your life. Unfulfilled is not unhappy….assume his life was shit before he meet AJ, which is just not true.
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How one views this is relative…you may believe a person saying they are ‘unfulfilled’ means the need for new challenges. While I certainly think there is credence in that, I’d venture to presume what leads a person down the path of becoming unhappy is a byproduct of a host of several circumstances…one of them potentially the feeling of being unfulfilled.
The reality is this, if Brad was ‘happy’ with how his life was pre 2005 and it was all he wanted to it be (personally and professionally), he’d likely still be in that same space with the same person/people. He obviously wasn’t, so much so, he made a change that has taken him in a completely different direction. That’s not knocking his ex-wife as much as it clearly indicates she no longer could give him what he needed…and he likely was unable to do the very same for her. Was that the case the entire time? No, obviously. Over the course of their 4 year union, they recognized happiness didn’t lie with each other and they wanted very different things. To look at each of their lives now, it’s not hard to see where the divides existed.
All that said, this interview was very telling in Brad seems to be happy with his partner and the family they’ve created together. Good for him :)
I admire certain things about Pitt and Jolie and think they have many fine qualities and have done some great works, but I do disagree with them on a number of things. Their lives are there’s to live, but in my admiration for their good works I don’t need to lose my ability to think for myself by thinking everything they do or say is rosy. Just as he resents people who try to tell others what to do, he should likewise respect people who have opinions that differ from his. He basically said that people who don’t support Gay Marriage are full of hatred and they belittle others so that they can feel important. That’s his opinion which he is entitled to and I support his right to say it. On the other hand he shouldn’t place names or tags on people who don’t agree with him. Just because he doesn’t believe in God ( he has said he is 20 % atheist and 80% agnostic, I believe) doesn’t mean everyone is like that. Many people are happy to ‘overlook’ certain things in their zeal to support celebrities who they have made Idols. I believe any website that is PUBLIC should support opposing comments to Jolie-Pitt as long as that comment is respectful. Name calling isn’t necessary. Nor is it necessary for anyone to agree with me.
@ just an observer says:
August 6, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Read the Parade interview again. He pretty much says he did not feel fulfilled – I think that qualifies as being unhappy. This is not a slam at his X. Brad and Angie should be allowed to talk about their feelings for each other and what their relationship means to them, without always trying to protect or make allowances for the life he had with his X. Just accept the man’s words at face value
I did read the interview again and again and the only part I read was that he felt like a donut when he was smoking pot so he stopped. I still don’t see what you see, I see that he walked down a path as far as he could go and then changed paths. I do take his words at face value I don’t read into them like some. Just because you change directions in your life doesn’t mean you were unhappy, or unfulfilled it just means you need new challenges and you need to take a new direction in your life. Unfulfilled is not unhappy. And yes I do think they should be able to express their emotions my problem is with people who read into what he says and assume his life was shit before he meet AJ, which is just not true.
Brad said
“Do you know how you tell real love? It’s when someone else’s interest trumps your own. I like to put it that way: trumps your own. Love of somebody else–of family, of your kids–becomes the most important, most worthwhile thing in your life.
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I like this part. People say Angie is full of positive energy and aura and she is a catalyst. Those people started their own charity after encouraged by her and her action. In Brad’s case it was starting parenthood. And it’s beyond biological children.
I read Brad’s sister was also trumped by them and adopted 2 boys from Etiopia.
Oh, and I know I’ve said this before, but I love this interview!
Lucy- I hear you! There is a post with the kid-related highlights of this interview up at Celebrity Baby Blog, and people are pretty much doing the same thing there (although I’m guessing not as vicously as on JJ, as CBB, like Sherry, moderates their comments. I haven’t read the JJ comments on this article, nor do I plan to, so I obviously can’t know for sure just how they compare to the CBB ones).
A few people said that Brad always sounds “so full of himself” (with at least one also saying that Angie sounds that way in interviews as well, and one person actually went as far as to call Brad “icky”!). One person said that they don’t understand why they speak so openly when they have a movie to promote and then “demand” privacy at other times.
To that I say, give me a break! They do interviews when they have a movie to promote because it’s their JOB to promote the movie! Like another, much more sensable commentor on CBB pointed out, they could get sued by the movie studios if they refused to promote their movies. Also, for the record, they have never demanded their privacy. All they have asked is that the paps not get right up in the kids faces and shout at them (thus scareing them) and such, which is a more than resonable request to make. As for Brad and Angie sounding “full of themselves”….You have got to be kidding me! That couldn’t be further from the truth!
Of course, there were also the usual snarky comments about the fact that the J-Ps travel so much, in response to what Brad said about being proud to provide the kids with a “world view”. I actually had to point out that, for the past year or so, they have actually been staying in one place for several months at a time (with the exception of a few day to week-long trips here and there, such as when Angie and Mad went to Iraq a couple weeks ago). I probably shouldn’t have even bothered, though, as I’m sure that will just fall on deaf ears, like always!
Anyway, it’s times like these (after reading negative comments elsewhere…and just to clarify, I actually like CBB a lot. I just don’t like the negative comments that some people make there!) that make me very grateful for PittWatch! Thank goodness we have this site to come and vent on when we see negative comments about the J-Ps elsewhere! :)