I still can’t get over how TIGHT Brad Pitt’s face is right now. This isn’t just a chemical peel or “good hydration” or whatever. It’s not even fillers, at least I don’t think so. I’m used to seeing people with fillers and you can really tell from the puffy stillness of their faces, and their inability to make regular facial expressions. Again, this is something else, like a high-quality facelift. My guess is Pitt went to a French surgeon, probably the same guy used by Gisele Bunchen and Sharon Stone. That guy does really good work. Anyway, Brad is still promoting Bullet Train in Europe. The cast already hit up Paris and Berlin and I’m including those photos in this post. Brad is definitely going through an odd fashion phase too. I like the theory that because Brad doesn’t have a girlfriend, he doesn’t know whose style to copykeen. Brad is also doing interviews and here are highlights from some comments he made to AFP:

How he told GQ he was in the last phase of his career: “I’m not getting out by any means. It seems that might have been taken as a statement of retirement. That’s not what I was saying. I’m over that hump of middle age and so I’m looking at that last leg… how do I want to spend that time? At my age, you’ve made enough mistakes… now there’s a comfort in applying that kind of wisdom.”

He sees Bullet Train as somewhat inspired by Jackie Chan’s movies: “It’s much more fun than the regular punch-up. It’s infused with humour and character. I can’t say enough about Jackie Chan and what he’s done, and to be in that arena, even close to that, is something I hadn’t done before.”

Pitt is not wedded to the nostalgia of movie theatres. “I like the dichotomy, the streamer as well as the theatre experience, because films were getting so expensive to do and to market that it was either big tent-pole movies or very small intimate movies and there was no room for anything in-between. Streamers have opened it up for more voices.”

[From AFP via The Sun Daily]

After he won the Oscar for Once Upon a Time, I worried that we would see a revival of Brad Pitt-the-actor, but it never really happened. I still wonder if Brad is getting as many scripts as people think. I wonder the same thing about George Clooney too, although Clooney was smart enough to lean into “older man” roles long ago. Brad Pitt was always more of a character actor masquerading as a leading man, and now he’s kind of too old for most of that. I don’t know, I really wonder what he is being offered now. As for what he says about theatrical releases versus streamers… that’s fine with me, I don’t have a problem with it. He’s right – streamers have been so good to the many mid-budget movies which would have never been made by the studios.

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