Seems odd to me that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie would land their second cover of PEOPLE Magazine in a row – and there’s not even one new quote from them in the entire interview. I get that they’re still trying to sell magazines, but enough already.

This week’s cover is all about Brad Pitt supporting Angelina during and following her double mastectomy surgeries.

Talk about teamwork. In the weeks surrounding Angelina Jolie’s preventive double mastectomy and subsequent reconstructive surgery, her fiancé, Brad Pitt, served as her No. 1 support.

At the bustling home they share with their six kids in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, “Brad did everything he could to keep things secret and protect Angie,” a family insider tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story.

Using early morning appointments and rental cars to avoid discovery, “They really wanted Angie to be able to recover and rest before they shared the story,” says the insider.

The actress’s medical ordeal only deepened the bond between Jolie, 37, and Pitt, 49, a couple for seven years. Those close to them say the pair’s teamwork is always on display, in public and private.

“They are very loving and inspiring to each other, exchanging ideas,” says Jeremy Kleiner, a longtime exec at Pitt’s Plan B production company and producer on his upcoming movie World War Z.

On-set, “He would light up when his family showed up. It’s just a very cool thing to see.”

For much more on this story, including Angelina’s next surgery and how Brad’s family has supported her, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE.

Wonder when Angelina will opt to have her ovaries removed. Will she give it some time? Has she already done it?

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The beautiful Brad Pitt (come on, there’s no other way to describe him), lands the cover of the June/July issue of Esquire. I covered the magazine a bit yesterday, but today we’re getting A) better pictures and B) better clips from the interview.

In the new issue, Brad reveals that he is the happiest he’s ever been. He’s madly in love with his fiance, Angelina Jolie, he adores his children, and he is satisfied with where his career is at. The following interview was done after Angelina’s double mastectomy. Here’s more:

Brad says he’s happier than ever.

“I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends and I have my family and I haven’t known life to be any happier. I’m making things. I just haven’t known life to be any happier.”

Brad gushes about his six children;  Maddox, 11, Pax, nine, Zahara, eight, Shiloh, six, and four-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne:

“I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house… there’s constant chatter in our house, whether it’s giggling or screaming or crying or banging. I love it. I love it. I love it. I hate it when they’re gone. I hate it. Maybe it’s nice to be in a hotel room for a day – “Oh, nice, I can finally read a paper.” But then, by the next day, I miss that cacophony, all that life.”

At 49, he knows what he wants. But it wasn’t always like that:

“I’d get so far and then want to do something else.  I mean, I’m two credits short of graduating college . Two credits. All I had to do was write a paper. What kind of guy is that? That guy scares me – the guy who always leaves a little on his plate.”

Brad believes his past recreational drug use did some “damage”:

“For a long time I thought I did too much damage – drug damage.  I was a bit of a drifter. A guy who felt he grew up in something of a vacuum and wanted to see things, wanted to be inspired. I followed that other thing. I spent years f***ing off. But then I got burnt out and felt that I was wasting my opportunity. It was a conscious change. This was about a decade ago. It was an epiphany – a decision not to squander my opportunities. It was a feeling of get up. Because otherwise, what’s the point?”

What Brad and Angie did after her surgeries:

“We set up our own little post-op recovery that became pretty fun. You make an adventure out of it. I’m quite emotional about it, of course. She could have stayed absolutely private about it and I don’t think anyone would have been none the wiser with such good results. But it was really important to her to share the story and that others would understand it doesn’t have to be a scary thing. In fact, it can be an empowering thing, and something that makes you stronger and us stronger.”

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Brad Pitt landed the cover of the June/July issue of Esquire.

According to people who have read the issue, the interview took place during the three months Angelina Jolie was undergoing her double mastectomy.

Here’s more from Lainey Gossip:

The profile was written by Tom Junod. In light of Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy announcement last week, Esquire has posted additional thoughts from Junod to its website on the Brange relationship given what we all know now. Apparently his interviews with Pitt took place during the 3 months Jolie was undergoing her procedures.

Junod previously profiled Jolie in 2007. Have you ever read the article? It’s…extremely flattering. I mean, he basically calls her Jesus. And I guess he was widely criticised for it. Here’s Brad’s response when he mentions it during their discussion:

“But you were right. You were right, you were right. Angie is….the best person…..”

For his piece on Pitt, Juno had access to those inside the Jolie-Pitt circle. Like, the real circle. If we learned anything last week, there is indeed a real circle and that sh-t is kept tight. Frank Pollaro, Pitt’s furniture design partner, has been allowed inside. These were the observations Pollaro chose to share:

“But (Pollaro) wanted to say something else, so he called Brad, and asked if he was at liberty to speak about Brad’s relationship with Angelina. He was, and so when he called back, he told me what he’d seen at Brad’s house — “once I walked in and Angie was standing there and Zahara walked up and said, ‘Daddy, you’re not going to start making out with Mommy again, are you?’ And it’s like that. This is a guy who has tried not to do any sexy scenes with other women since he’s met Angelinia. He’s crazy about her, and she’s the same way about him. No matter how hard he’s working, if one of those kids runs by the window he’ll get out of his chair and give them a kiss. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen Angie without one of those children in her arms.”

It has just been announced that Brad Pitt’s movie ‘World War Z’ will open the Moscow Film Festival on June 20.

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Brad Pitt is back to work! After publicly supporting his fiance, Angelina Jolie, the actor visited Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.

Maybe he’s wrapping up work for ‘World War Z,’ which hits theaters next month?

Earlier this week, Jolie stunned the world with the revelation she had both of her breasts removed and reconstructed because genetic testing showed she had an 87% chance of developing breast cancer.

She indicated in an op-ed piece in The New York Times that she also plans to have her ovaries removed because her “faulty” BRCA gene gives her a 50% chance of developing ovarian cancer.

In an interview published Wednesday in USA Today, Pitt said it was important for Jolie to share her medical odyssey so that “others would understand it doesn’t have to be a scary thing.”

Pitt called the experience “empowering” and “an emotional and beautifully inspiring few months.”

He described with pride how the stunning “Salt” actress kept her commitments in the weeks surrounding her Feb. 16 double mastectomy and April 27 breast reconstruction with recently FDA-approved anatomic implants, which are teardrop shaped.

In early April, Jolie honored Pakistani teen activist Malala Yousufzai in New York and then attended the G-8 summit in London.

“Literally it was just weeks after she’d had truly major surgery,” Pitt said.

I’m so excited for ‘World War Z!’ I’m not a fan of zombie movies, but I am a fan of Brad Pitt.

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Brad Pitt is calling his fiance Angelina Jolie “heroic” after the Oscar-winning actress revealed that she had undergone a double mastectomy because of her extremely high cancer risk.

Angelina revealed in a letter to the New York Times that she chose to undergo the drastic procedure because of her extremely high cancer risk (some experts put it at 87%).

Angelina, 37, lost her mother Marcheline Bertrand of ovarian cancer in 2007 at the age of 56.

Brad Pitt told the Standard, “Having witnessed this decision firsthand, I find Angie’s choice, as well as so many others like her, absolutely heroic. I thank our medical team for their care and focus. All I want for is for her to have a long and healthy life, with myself and our children. This is a happy day for our family.”

Angelina Jolie has undergone a preventative double mastectomy. The actress revealed the news herself in an article she wrote for The New York Times titled ‘My Medical Choice.’

Angelina explained that she underwent the breast removal procedure because he has the mutated BRCA1 gene, which is known to increase a woman’s chance of getting both breast and ovarian cancers.

Angelina, 37, explained her decision in the article (which you can read in full here):

My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman.

Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.

On April 27, I finished the three months of medical procedures that the mastectomies involved. During that time I have been able to keep this private and to carry on with my work.

My own process began on Feb. 2 with a procedure known as a “nipple delay,” which rules out disease in the breast ducts behind the nipple and draws extra blood flow to the area. This causes some pain and a lot of bruising, but it increases the chance of saving the nipple. CONTINUE READING (SHE OPENS UP ABOUT BRAD PITT) AFTER THE JUMP! (more…)

Brad Pitt lands the June cover of Vanity Fair, and hot damn, he looks good! He’s been on the cover of Vanity Fair a bazillion times, and I always enjoy his interviews. In this issue of Vanity Fair, Brad talks all about the making of his new movie World War Z, from the shocking budget overages, to the on-set drama and having to re-shoot the ending.

Screenwriter Damon Lindelof tells Vanity Fair that the film had problems, early on. “He took me through how excited he was when he read the book, what was exciting for him, the geopolitical aspect of it. ‘But when we started working on the script, a lot of that stuff had to fall away for the story to come together. We started shooting the thing before we locked down how it was going to end up, and it didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to.’” The actor asked him to watch an edit, and told him, “The thing we really need right now is someone who is not burdened by all the history that this thing is inheriting, who can see what we’ve got and tell us how to get to where we need to get.”

In her revealing report, Holson also speaks to director Marc Forster and Paramount executives Marc Evans and Adam Goodman about the many problems that plagued the set—which included re-writing and reshooting 40 minutes of the film to find a coherent ending—and, most astonishingly, how the budget ballooned to around $200 million.

While closing down the production in Malta, for instance, the wrap-up crew found a stack of purchase orders related to the cast and extras that had been casually tossed into a desk drawer and forgotten; the amount totaled in the millions of dollars. Marc Evans, president of production at Paramount, was shocked. He calls the overages an “unthinkable action” which needed to be addressed immediately. “It was literally insane. Adam [Goodman, president of the Paramount Film Group] and I believed we’d gotten out of Malta good, and I found out we weren’t. That is a nightmare.”

When it came time to watch the director’s cut, Holson reports, the room was silent. “It was, like, Wow. The ending of our movie doesn’t work,” says Evans. “I believed in that moment we needed to reshoot the movie.” After 10 minutes of polite discussion, everyone left. “We were going to have long, significant discussions to fix this,” he recalls thinking.

“I said to them, There are two roads to go down here,” says Lindelof. “Is there material that can be written to make that stuff work better? To have it make sense? To have it have emotional stakes? And plot logic and all that? And Road Two, which I think is the long-shot road, is that everything changes after Brad leaves Israel.” That meant throwing out the entire Russian battle scene—or about 12 minutes of footage—and crafting a new ending. “I didn’t think anyone was going to say, ‘Let’s throw it out and try something else,’ ” Lindelof recalls. “So when I gave them those two roads and they sounded more interested in Road B”—which meant shooting an additional 30 to 40 minutes of the movie—“I was like, ‘To be honest with you, good luck selling that to Paramount.’ ”

The rest of the story will be released when this issue hits shelves on May 2.

I cannot WAIT for ‘World War Z.’ Zombies are NOT my cup of tea, but Brad Pitt is. The sacrifices I make. Have you seen the latest trailer for ‘World War Z?’

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