Brad Pitt: self-confidence and melancholy of a major star – La Tercera

In addition, his areas of interest expand to architecture, landscaping and sculpture, and he defines himself as “one of those creatures that speaks through art” who needs to “always be doing things. If not, there is something in me that dies”, as he also told GQ magazine this year.

Acknowledging that Pitt communicates through his art –through each of his interpretations, or at least those in which he leaves some kind of signature–, Bullet train can provide some clues about your past, present and future.

The recently released action comedy, his first leading role since Ad Astra: Towards the Stars (2019), unites him with the director David Leitch, today a film director but before his stunt double in titles such as The fight Club (1999), Troy (2004) and Mr and Mrs smith (2005). Said alliance ratifies his persistence in putting himself under the orders of close or old acquaintances, as he practiced in 2019 in his second collaboration with Quentin Tarantino or in his multiple meetings with David Fincher.

His role design is also made up of an element that exceeds the screen: Ladybug, a guy with thick glasses and a hat as flashy as his name, is a long-experienced assassin who is sick of violence. Although he is determined to complete the mission assigned to him – to retrieve a briefcase aboard a high-speed train in Japan – each new skirmish further convinces him that his time executing robberies and tasks to the limit is a thing of the past.

It is enough to see its first minutes to conclude that the film does not intend to deliver any very elaborate point about the origin of violence or about human stupidity. It’s fun in the vein that pushes the viewer to suspend the codes of the plausible and embrace its delusional logic for two hours, flanking its main character with an in-form cast (Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Bad Bunny , Sandra Bullock).

But, even with the snatch of the story, it is possible to notice the actor’s joy at giving life to a role brimming with charisma, which allows him to play with his public image: the Brad Pitt who does not rule out abandoning his profession but who for now continues active. As long as he stays on top of the wave (or the train, to be exact), Ladybug devotes herself to his work, without missing the opportunity to make comments that reveal a certain disenchantment.

It is not too far from the recent perspective of Pitt, a performer who, to perpetuate his success, decided to open up instead of secluding himself in his castle of fame. “We all carry pain, grief and loss. We spend most of our time hiding it, but it’s there, it’s in you,” he told The New York Times three years ago.

As an actor, Brad Pitt’s next film will be Babylonan ambitious film that Damien Chazelle (la la land) is set in Hollywood in the 1920s and has him at the center with Margot Robbie. Due to the weight of those involved and the profile of its plot, it is hard to imagine that if it becomes moderately forceful it will not land in the next edition of the Oscars. Much of the mystery will be cleared up when it hits theaters in December.

As a producer, on the other hand, his deployment is more varied and prolific. Next month it will be released on Netflix Blondethe film about Marilyn Monroe directed by his friend Andrew Dominik (The murder of Jesse James by the cowardly Robert Ford), and in November will appear she saidthe feature film that recreates the experiences of the two New York Times journalists who wrote the first report on the sexual abuse committed by Harvey Weinstein.

Much of Hollywood was at some point close to the filmmaker sentenced to 23 years in prison, but his case is more particular. According to the actress’s own testimony, Gwyneth Paltrow was sexually harassed by Weinstein in a hotel in 1995, an episode that she told Pitt, her boyfriend at the time. “If you ever make her uncomfortable again, I’ll kill you.”, The interpreter would have told him weeks later at an event.

“He used his power and fame to protect me, when I was a nobody, and scared Harvey,” says Paltrow in Hollywood ending: Harvey Weinstein and the culture of silencethe insightful book by journalist Ken Auletta that has just been released in English.

However, this background did not prevent the actor from leading two other films that had the participation of the producer, Inglorious Bastards Y Kill them softly (2012). To the regret of Angelina Jolie, who suffered a similar situation at the hands of Weinstein in the 90s, her husband continued to work with one of the most powerful men on the American scene.

“They offered me to The Aviator, but I said no because he was involved. I never associated or worked with him again. It was hard for me when Brad did it”, told the actress in The Guardian at the end of last year. Within the framework of a revealing interview, the interpreter also referred to her divorce from Pitt and the bitter dispute they maintain over the custody of her six children. However, she was cautious about the complaint of domestic violence that she made against her ex-husband (she claims that she assaulted her son Maddox while they were on a private plane in 2016) and that she triggered the breakup .

the protagonist of Seven deadly sinsmeanwhile, last June launched its own offensive, accusing that Jolie wanted to harm him on purpose when she sold her share of the vineyards they jointly owned in the town of Correns, in the south of France, to a stranger. The same property in which they were married in 2014 and in which they shared several stays as a family.

Cleverly, Pitt and his team have managed to divert attention whenever he might have been consulted by the hottest issues around him. Whether in his most extensive interviews or in the public instances linked to his latest film, he has slipped away with the ingenuity of an actor who has spent almost three decades at the top of Hollywood. He is part of the arsenal of talents that also explains his hitherto uninterrupted success.