Brad Pitt has a great new interview in the new issue of Hello Magazine. He’s promoting Fury, of course, and some of the quotes are variations on stuff we’ve heard in some of his other recent interviews. But he did talk in greater depth about going to Buckingham Palace and how the Jolie-Pitt kids reacted to meeting the Queen. Some quotes:

Getting married: “We have six kids already so we felt so beyond that [marriage] for a long time. But the kids were asking and so we thought it would be a lovely thing to do, for them and for us as a family, and it was all of that. But I was surprised afterwards at the effect that getting married has had on us – it was more than just a ceremony, it meant a real depth of commitment. I feel like a married man – I really do.”

He will speak French in ‘By the Sea’: “The film’s set in France so it makes sense for me to speak it. And I think my French is pretty good, so my writer/director put a lot of the language into the script and we’ll see how I do. My writer/director is tough as nails, as you know.”

Traveling with the kids: “Travel is the best education there is. I had never been on a plane till I was 24 or 25, so when I started to travel abroad, whether it was to Netherlands or Tokyo or Belgium, it was all such an experience.”

The possibility that ‘Fury’ and ‘Unbroken’ would be in competition at the Oscars: “I often end up with movies competing with my friends’ movies and I always feel that it’s great when we all make it there. I am immensely proud of Angie, she’s made an incredible movie, which is a big story about the triumph of the human spirit – we’re certainly not pitted against each other and I hope Unbroken gets all the recognition it deserves.”

Meeting the Queen: “That was a lovely day for our whole family. We were offered the opportunity to bring the kids in to meet the Queen afterwards, and I have to say I have never seen them so still and respectful in my whole life. To see them bowing and curtseying and saying ‘Your Majesty’ was an absolute delight.”

[From Hello Magazine, print edition]

Hello Mag also says that the American ambassador to the UK hosted a luncheon for Angelina and the Jolie-Pitts after she got Dame’d. Pretty elite circles, right? Brad also talked a lot about how he and Angelina never wanted to make separate films away from each other again, after their schedules got mixed up and he was filming Fury in England while she filmed Unbroken in Australia. Angelina already said that they wrote hand-written love letters to each other during that time, and Brad confirms: “Well, they weren’t just love letters although there was a lot of love in them.” Aw.

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