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Brad Pitt lightly roasted his “Jesse James” co-star, Casey Affleck, from the stage of the Hollywood Awards in Los Angeles on Monday. He noted that their film, which struggled with critics and at the box office, was “playing now at a theater nowhere near you.”
Calling him “Cassie,” Pitt wryly noted Affleck’s “hits and misses” before presenting the young actor with the Breakthrough Actor of the Year award.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are already partners on a handful of huge projects – namely Maddox, Shiloh, Zahara and Pax – but now the pair are going into business together.
Pitt, 43, and Jolie, 32, are teaming up for their first producing project, a new series for HBO, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
And it’s a subject close to their hearts: The untitled drama will go behind the scenes of an international aid organization and follow workers who put their lives in danger to help others. The series is being written by Scott Burns, who co-wrote The Bourne Ultimatum and produced Al Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
After spending some family time in New York (where Pitt also filmed his new movie Burn After Reading), the couple recently returned to Los Angeles, where Jolie is filming The Changeling with Clint Eastwood.
Just bear with me here…Celebrity Babylon has the scoop:
Brad Pitt, 43, recently hung out with one of his old buddies [from the "Jen" days], who has a famous wife and two kids and asked him about his sex life. Our source says, “Brad wanted to know how often [his almost 10-year married pal] was ‘getting it,’ and how they managed to find time to be together?’”
The buddy gave Brad a sympathetic ear, and suggested among other things, a ‘date night’ where he and Angie checked into a hotel to spend a romantic evening without interruptions. But, the friend also marveled at how the busy couple juggled careers, traveling around the world and four children (Maddox, 6, Pax, almost 4, Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 1), which, since he only had two, couldn’t fathom dealing with that many? Even with nannies and family chipping in, Brad confided that it was a lot to deal with, especially after a long day of filming. “I’ll be honest, it’s not easy,” Brad said jokingly to our Celebrity Babylon source. “No, we love it, but you know.” Yeah, we know! If you’ll recall, Brad says they have a “Nine foot bed” to accomodate all the children, and will need to add “another 2-feet” if they add to their growing family again. Angelina says that the family suffers from constant jet lag, “Someone is always up.” Not the recipe for a great sex life!
In the end, Brad thanked his buddy for the advice, and planned to give it a go!
That all sounds legit, right? Haha!
How great are these pictures!!! Here is Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie returning from helicopter flight with Maddox and Zahara in NYC, October 7.
For those of you that have kids…is there anything better than watching your man love on your babies? I swear Troy is so much cuter when he’s loving on the kids – and he doesn’t know I’m watching. So maybe it’s the mom in me that finds Brad Pitt so stinking cute in these pictures.
Brad Pitt on the cover of Italian GQ AND Total Film.
One word to describe Brad Pitt… I pick: HOT!
What one word would you use to describe him?
Brad Pitt may have been born a Southern Baptist, but as the Springfield, Missouri, native entered college, he found himself having a crises of faith.”When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn’t a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self,” says Pitt, 43.
Now the head of Hollywood’s most famous family finds comfort in his partner Angelina Jolie and their four children, Maddox, 6, Pax, 3, Zahara, 2, and one-year-old Shiloh. “I still have faith in that,” he says.
In the new issue of Parade magazine, Pitt discusses his evolution from college journalism student to actor to philanthropist. Is a run for office in his future? See interview excerpts below to find out…
On inequality:
“Whoever said all men are born equal never left his own backyard. I see people everywhere without opportunity. I want to help level the playing field.”
On whether his charity work is the result of his relationship with Jolie:
“That’s idiotic! I do it because I’m a member of the human race. In Africa you see people on the street dying from AIDS, children left without parents. We’re all cells of one body, with the same emotions and desires for our families–for a little dignity and a chance for a better life. Let’s focus on that! I believe in the founding principles of America. I want to fight for that. I know most Americans feel the same way.”
On whether he’ll ever run for office:
“Oh, my God! I never thought about it. I have no desire at this point. Maybe I serve better by not going through that door. George [Clooney] should do it! He’d be quite good. I think Ben Affleck should run.”
On being famous:
“When fame really hit me was when Legends of the Fall was released three years later. You get no warning about what celebrity is or how to deal with it. It’s sort of multitiered. The initial stage is feeling discombobulated and not up to the task. I didn’t understand the incessant attention when I went outside, the way people completely focused on me. It made me very uncomfortable.
On the paparazzi:
“I mean, yesterday Angie was taking Maddie off to school. There were 30 paparazzi outside. One guy sticks a video camera in Mad’s face, yelling, ‘Maddox! Maddox!’ He doesn’t get a response. He doesn’t know my boy. Mad is already savvy to this, unfortunately. But my 2-year-old dreads being anyplace there are cameras. It scares her. They’re all in her face. My kids are faced with this every day! It’s disgusting. So we’ve been run out of L.A., all the major cities. We just can’t live there. You don’t understand–this is the hunt, the hunt, the hunt! I thought it might be over a year ago. It’s gotten worse.”
On turning away from religion:
“I didn’t understand this idea of a God who says, ‘You have to acknowledge me. You have to say that I’m the best, and then I’ll give you eternal happiness. If you won’t, then you don’t get it!’ It seemed to be about ego. I can’t see God operating from ego, so it made no sense to me.
On the ways of the world:
“We’re basically all the same. There is so much focus on our differences. Again, this thing of ego—my high school is better than your high school! We forget that we all have the same feelings on any side of the world. Why can’t we find common ground instead of this obsession with our hatreds?”
Pictures from Parade photoshoot
