Ahead of the actor’s new F1 film, Brad Pitt sat down for an interview to discuss everything from embracing risk to the thrill of the race – a natural segue given the subject matter of the soon-to-be-released movie. Naturally, as its his first big project after his divorce from Angelina Jolie was finalised, it wasn’t long before the line of questioning shifted gears to his personal life.
And can you blame the interviewer? After all, divorce proceedings that drag out over an eight year period tend to garner interest – even more so when the parties involved are two of the biggest movie stars of their generation. So it’s hardly a surprise when Pitt was asked about his state of mind following the dissolution of his marriage, especially one that involves six children.
On whether or not the “other side of divorce” felt different, or perhaps even provided a sense of relief for the actor, Pitt answered: “No, I don’t think it was that major of a thing. Just something coming to fruition. Legally.”
And, ok, sure – let’s say we put aside everything we know about the last eight years of legal filings and court cases, including the alleged abuse Jolie suffered at the hands of Pitt, and follow him blindly down his path of deflection. Or accept his repeated attempts to reframe the narrative and sell us on his chill-guy era. Even if we were to buy into his victimised script, these comments still fail to inspire anything but a collective roll of the eyes.
We get it. Brad Pitt finds any attention on his personal life to be an irritation. We know, because he tells us so. “My personal life is always in the news. It’s been in the news for 30 years, bro. Or some version of my personal life, let’s put it that way,” he tells GQ.
“It’s been an annoyance I’ve had to always deal with in different degrees, large and small, as I do the things I really want to do,” he adds later in the piece. “So, it’s always been this kind of nagging time suck or waste of time, if you let it be that.”
While Brad Pitt continues to feed us lines about how irksome he finds these intrusions on his personal life to be, or how chill his divorce was, when the world knows it was the complete opposite, it’s giving … the lady doth protest too much.
For if privacy was truly his end game, if he sincerely wanted to remain out of the headlines for say: suing Jolie for selling her shares in Château Miraval, or making her sign an “expansive” NDA about their relationship before she attempted to do so (just to give some topline context), then maybe he could … refrain from doing these things in the first place?
Because for someone who tells us how much he doesn’t care about these surface level things, he sure seems to care a whole lot.
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