This is your final reminder before the weekend officially begins: Fury opens today in theaters. And Brad Pitt’s still hustling for it. I saw some box office predictions and most people think Fury will win the box office this weekend (finally dethroning Gone Girl, perhaps) but that it’s not going to be a major hit like World War Z.
In most of Brad’s interviews, he’s been offering up little morsels about his new marriage and all of that. Brad has started playing it more like Angelina – he doesn’t complain when people ask him personal questions, but he usually only offers one sentence. When he spoke to USA Today at the DC premiere, he was asked about his non-existent honeymoon, considering he and Angelina flew to Malta to begin filming on By the Sea just a few days after their wedding. Brad said: “Our dysfunctional honeymoon. Yeah, it was our choice. It’s been fun. It’s been challenging but really fun.” When asked about his wife as a director, Brad said: “She’s good. She knows what she’s doing.”
Then Brad and the cast sat down with Good Morning America for a pre-taped interview in which Brad got most of the questions. Shia LaBeouf is still trying so hard to impress Brad! It’s sort of cute. When asked about the wedding, Brad said: “It was an amazing day and I think there’s an added security that comes with it.” Security? After ten years and six kids? That’s a little bit strange to me. But maybe Brad still thinks Angelina might pull a runner. Brad was also asked about his previous stance of not marrying until there was marriage equality in America. He side-stepped the question and just said: “That’s just a no-brainer to me. That’s the basis of our country. Equality for everyone.” I personally think that Brad and Angelina DID wait until there was marriage equality in half the states.
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PS… Am I the only one obsessed with his leather satchel?
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My husband and I were together for a long time before marrying and I’ve always said the same thing — it does feel different and more secure. I didn’t think anything would change but it did and it’s good.
I agree. I really think there is something to the public declaration of commitment. It’s not just between you two anymore. Now everyone knows you are in it for the long haul and breaking that promise is bigger than just splitting when you weren’t married anyway. Just my opinion though.
Yeah my cousin who has been with her man for 12years only married last year. And when I asked her how it feels to be married she basically said the same thing. Exactly what you just said.
Dame Helen Mirren says exactly the same thing, after a very long anti-marriage period……she and TH were together yonks but after marriage she said she was completely surprised that it actually did feel different, and better.
Agreed! There’s a subtle shift that I think comes from closing the door on all alternate futures without that person. I wonder if I’ll feel the same way about having kids.
I agree. You’re in it together in a different way. It’s subtle, but it’s there.
Completely agree. Marriage surprised me. Definitely more than a piece of paper. Lovely.
There was a change when my wife and I got married. I was all in and had no thought otherwise, I didn’t expect it to be different but it was. I do however wonder how someone already divorced once could feel like being married to someone divorced twice before would make it more secure. He knows first hand that the marriage itself is not a safeguard or a security. I’m NOT knocking divorced people (had I actually gone through with my first engagement at 20 I would be on of those), I have met plenty of couples who are clearly happier with their second spouse I just can’t understand the idea of marriage feeling more secure when you’ve already left one or been left in one…
The moustache has got to go. It’s an awful look on him and always has been.
But marriage equality is here to stay. So I think they realized that marriage equality isn’t going to stop.
I wonder if the satchel is for back up hats?
hahahhahahaha
LOL. I think I see the orange one peeking out.
Maybe the “security” part is for the children not Angie.
They have made it for quite a few year; with a lot of negative thrown at them for the vast majority of it. I think they are very secure in what they mean to each other and what they have together. I think it is more about the children. Children know what marriage is and if you have ever been around children then you know they compare themselves to other children. The Why is this or that come all the time.
Not sure how long this couple will have to be together before the assumption of them leaving each other is an after thought.
The seem very strong and solid.
+1
Yes, you nailed it~security for the children. What a lovely gift for them as well!
The way his shirt wrinkles in the last photo looks like a face and its all I can think about.. what would it say, would it be of the “hey, hey, hey..” variety?
As you can read, I have nothing intelligent to add to this conversation..
We’re supposed to add intelligence to the comment section?
Uh oh.
lmao. you funny.
Your comment reminds me of ‘Little Rascals’–I can’t remember the character’s name, but he was the little black boy with the braids….he found a dollar on the ground, and he went around singing ‘I found a dollar, I found a dollar. I found a dollar, hey, hey, hey, hey.’
His name was Buckwheat.
@GNAT
I don’t know why, but for years, I always thought he was a girl.
Lol! That is adorable. His hair was kind of long for a boy of that era maybe?
and now you’ve gone an reminded me of that SNL bit about “Who Shot Buckwheat?”
Man, that was a good one.
Virgilia- the reason you thought Buckwheat was a girl for years is because the original actor was a girl and referred to as somebody’s sister. A boy took over the role early but for some time (years?) they kept the character female. As the boy playing the role grew, they went gradually through a gender-ambiguous stage to male for the character.
Thanks Kaiser for the Brad bonanza this week, most delightful.
I love that moustache……the first I ever approved of in my life!
I also really dig the tatty old hat and extreeeemely casual clothes, contrasted with the vision of a living Aphrodite in Angelina…..a very sexy vibe. (Mind you I’m so far steeped in Brangemadness that if he wore an Elvis onesie I’d declare it fabulous(
HA! 🙂 😉 the last part of your comment made Me laugh
I’m just glad he quit wearing that beige on beige mess. Even though I sometimes don’t like Brad’s style (like that godawful long hair or that beard/goatee thing he had a few years ago), I like that he’s dressed like a grown up. He doesn’t go around looking like he’s homeless or just rolled out of bed. But if I’m remembering right, last year he was wearing like a onesie garbage man outfit. That was ugly.
He is actually really good with actually going to the people, and promoting his films. I can think of only a few other actors that go to screenings and actually talk to the people and field questions, etc. I also saw on the Dailymail that he and the cast went to Fort Benning and screened the movie/spent the day with military families. That’s so cool. It looked like everyone had a great time.
About ‘security’ of marriage–I think that’s a true statement. It’s why gay people want to get married, beyond the symbolic nature of marriage. I’m sure that he and Angelina have legal stuff in place, but in the eyes of the law (for the most part) long term partnership doesn’t equal marriage (even if it’s for a very short time).
And I’ve always thought that Angelina didn’t want to get married because she always rushed into marriage before, and probably thought getting married for a 3rd time would be ridiculous…..while I always thought Brad would’ve married her the minute she said yes. But I also do think that they care about gay rights, and I think that it’s brave to say that they support it, when both of their families are the complete opposite. I know that I have a hard time talking with my dad on these kinds of issues, because we’re polar opposites, and I don’t like tension or confrontation.
And why would you/anyone think that Angelina would be locked down by marriage? Seriously, she’s been married twice before. I think she realized that she wasn’t going to put up with certain things from her boyfriend/husband, and knows exactly what she wants in a partner. If she wasn’t happy with Brad, she’d leave him. And same with Brad.
I think that they’re such an interesting couple because they enhance each other. I said this on Ben and Jennifer’s thread–Jennifer just seems to trail after Ben, and her work gets fit in when HE’S not doing anything, or biding his time between project. Brad and Angelina are a team. On one of their last posts, I looked at Brad’s IMBD page—and he has a few producing projects as well as role in a short….but other than that, he’s not doing anything for 2015 and beyond (he also said in a previous interview that he doesn’t schedule things years in advance)….which works nicely with the fact that Angelina will be promoting Unbroken, editing/producing By The Sea, etc. And who knows when she’ll be filming ‘Africa’. And I think that he knew that she wanted to go into directing, so while she didn’t make a movie for four years (and also had her surgeries too)–he made his films–and is now stepping back and supporting hers. I like that.
This is kind of OT–when I was looking at AJ’s IMDB page, I noticed she produced this movie back in 2005 (that I’d never heard of)…..it’s called Lovesick, and it has a Cambodian cast (and a Cambodian director). It’s a little movie about a Cambodian woman that is stuck in an arranged marriage. I just thought of posting it, because I know that on the last thread about Angelina, some people were asking if she’d ever directed/produced a movie with non-white people. Well, she did.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363778/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_8
She also Exec produced Difret this year.
Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave Hirut grabs a rifle and tries to escape.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2611390/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_5
It’s a great satchel, Kaiser.
I could see how marriage could add a sense of security even after all that time. I dislike when people say marriage is antiquated or just a piece of paper, then go on to say that people who value marriage must be insecure. It’s hypocritical to complain about values being forced on you only to do the same to others. Just because you don’t care for marriage does not render it meaningless to everyone in particular the law. Things can get tricky when it comes to serious illness or death if you are not married. That cannot be denied.
I agree. It really gets on my nerves when people who don’t want to get married judge people who do, and belittle their motives, or say it’s just a piece of paper. Everybody’s not the same. If you don’t want to get married, and it’s meaningless to you, don’t get married. But it means something to me, it’s not just a piece of paper to me, so stop judging.
Security? Like he gave Aniston before cheating on her? Nothing makes a relationship secure, much less a piece of paper.
Um, Domino, he didn’t cheat on Aniston.
I’m sorry someone cheated on you.
That’s a good point (although I do agree with other posters that it was probably directed at the kids). Marriage is secures things when it comes to the kids and how they feel about their parents relationship, and the law. But marriage itself doesn’t make you faithful OR want to stay in the marriage. You have to constantly work at your relationship. It seems that so many people get married because they think that’ll make their partner commit to them, or make them stop (or won’t) cheat on them–like Sherri Shepard from The View. She thought that getting married meant that her husband wouldn’t cheat on her.
Exactly what I thought Domino. He is in no position to make that comment. He is responsible for turning JA into a very insecure woman for many years. How dare he. But men always get a pass for shitty behaviour. And clearly Dame Angelina didn’t think anything of it.
Oh please, JA was insecure long before she ever met Brad Pitt. Her insecurity goes back to her childhood. Brad didn’t create it and he is not responsible for it.
No duh, Howard Hughes.
Brad made the most normative mundane comment. No hidden meaning here, folks.
I was hoping to see an Angelina Jolie post on the new trailer of unbroken.. Christmas can’t come soon enough.
Heading out to see Fury with the fiance he totally loves all things ww2 and he is also smitten with the brange I guess I infected him 😉
Got nothing to say except that is a fine looking man who knows exactly who he is and what he wants in life.
To see Brad so confident, humble, loving towards his wife and children just makes him more sexy.
As some mentioned above – Brad & Angelina are a team and respects each other’s careers. Angina stepped back for 4 years and let Brad continue with making movies. Now it’s Brad’s turn to step back and let Angelina progress.
That’s clearly their plan as Brad hasn’t signed on to act in anything new, producing yes but not acting in.
It’s always good to see a couple who doesn’t let ego & jealousy enter their relationship.
I always find the ‘added security’ argument really odd. I’ve been divorced and I’ve ended a long-term relationship. The divorce was so simple and easy and so fantastically fast in comparison, because all the legal stuff was pretty much decided for us, it was just a matter of getting the ball rolling and signing some papers. Ending the long-term relationship was an expensive nightmare even though the break-up was completely amicable, because there’s so many grey areas as to how all the financial stuff should be handled. I still share some assets with my long-term ex because in trying to divide them up we were just bashing our heads against the brick wall of bureaucracy.
A big part of the reason I got married a second time was so if it all fell apart it would be easier to leave.
“A big part of the reason I got married a second time was so if it all fell apart it would be easier to leave.”
No offense, but that is really sad, in a dumb sort of way. Like, that is such a dumb reason to get married that it is just sad.
Just read a new interview and it explains better what Brad was saying.
Depth of commitment
Then he said, “We have six kids. We felt so beyond that (marriage) but our kids were asking, so we thought it would be a lovely thing to do with our family. It was all that. But I was surprised afterwards. It was more than just a ceremony. I was surprised at furthering the depth of commitment.”
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Great interview.. he shares some details about By the Sea.. as well
the movie sounds interesting..
http://entertainment.inquirer.net/column/only-in-hollywood
I had to smile at this part of the interview:
“That was just cool,” Brad said of the recent family outing in Buckingham Palace. “It was a lovely day for our family. We were offered the opportunity to meet afterwards and bring the kids in. And to see the kids — I have never seen them that still and respectful in my whole life. To see them bow and say ‘Your Majesty’ and curtsy, was an absolute delight and just a lovely day for us.”
I wish somebody had made a video of that and posted it on Youtube.
After 10 years and 6 kids a piece of paper gives him security? Didn’t they both have the same “security papers” before?
love brad pitt
Brad Pitt looks very handsome …..