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Brad Pitt on Rolling Stone
By Cara | December 10, 2008
Rolling Stone got a hold of Brad Pitt and interviewed him and his baby pornstache that I hate more and more every time I see it.
During the interview he blabs on about the most boring things. He talks about religion…yawn….work…yawn and Fight Club. I like the idea of Brad Pitt pre-Angelina Jolie. So that is the most interesting part of the interview. Below is the bulk of the interview so you can save yourself the $5.
Benjamin Button is your third film with Fincher. Going back to Fight Club, though, I found a quote where he talks about how you’re actually sort of similar to your character, Tyler Durden.
In that I don’t bathe?
He didn’t mention that specifically. He said, “It’s probably a character closer to Brad in real life than most people would be comfortable knowing.”
[Pitt just laughs]
“There is a childlike sense of anarchy….He is kind of a shit-stirrer and one of those people who is ‘Huh? Is that the current thinking? I don’t really buy that.’”
Well, that probably comes from growing up in a religious community. I just found it so stifling, my religion. I know it’s very comforting for other people.
Did you go to church every Sunday?
Yeah. And it was too much of what you shouldn’t be doing instead of what you could be doing. I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. It drives me mental. This Prop. 8 thing just drives me mental.
Where were you on election night?
Chicago. I went down to Grant Park, because I was doing Oprah the next day. I walked home from the park to the hotel, which was a half-hour walk. And I could walk freely — no one was interested in me at that point. People were weeping and hugging. The sense of elation in the streets — it was great. That was such a turnaround for us. We captured the original definition of America again.
Do you think Fight Club could have been made after September 11th?
No. Certainly not that ending. We debated it then. There’s a line we stuck in, about the buildings being evacuated.
Some critics just didn’t get that film.
Did you see the DVD that Fincher put out? He put all the negative reviews in the booklet. Some London critic said, “Not only is it anti-capitalistic, but it’s anti-society and anti-God.” We were like, “We didn’t realize it was that good!”
Benjamin Button and Fight Club actually deal with similar themes: having a finite amount of time in life, and what we should do with it. But they come to such radically different conclusions. In Fight Club, the response to mortality is nihilism, anarchy
[Laughs] That was a Nineties conclusion. Now we have an Aughts conclusion. I actually never thought of what you just said. But it’s probably true.
Relax the lip fur is gone after he finishes filming.
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