Brad Pitt on Rolling Stone cover
December 10, 2008 by Sherry
Check out USA Today to see the great photo of Brad Pitt on the cover of Rolling Stone which hits newsstands on Friday.
In the article, he apparently tells Rolling Stone why he just doesn’t fight with Angelina Jolie:
“Angie and I do not fight anymore. What occurred to me on this film, and also with the passing of her mother (actress Marcheline Bertrand in 2007), is that there’s going to come a time when I’m not going to get to be with this person anymore. I’m not going to get to be with my children anymore. … And so, if we have a flare-up, it evaporates now.”
He goes on to say that he just doesn’t want to blow his time by using it up to be mad at someone that he loves.
Of course, this article will have certain non-fans gloating about the admission that Brad and Angelina have fought before, but seriously, almost every couple fights at some point in their relationship – it’s rare for two people to live and love together without conflicts surfacing here and there. I think it’s great that things in his life have made him aware of his own mortality and that he is making a conscious effort to spend his time being happy.
Let me know if you get a copy of Rolling Stone on Friday!
Susan, I feel the same as you about Tom, Nicole and Pene. I don’t remember a backlash like what is happening to Angie. I am really sick and tired of it. I thought Brad and Jen’s marriage was falling apart before he started MMS.
Coming out of lurking …. Susan i agree with you 100% I personally think in some way is because Nicole ketp her feelings and her divorce private, I never recall she ever play the ” victim” part. Partly i think she has mentiones she just want the best for their kids.
People will read what they want, two person can read the same quoute and come off thinking totally two different things, pity but i guess just they way it is. I love that Angie always willing to be open in her interviews and i am glad that Brad is defending her and showing that they both are in the same pages.
I think Angie will give her reaction in one way or another, sooner or later. I’m sure she will be asked about X comments (re Knox & Zee ) in the future. Usually she doesn’t give comments especially about X. However, this is different. THIS INVOLVES HER CHILDREN.
In her interviews, Angie said,
“My mom was a very sweet, soft-spoken woman who didn’t like to yell, wasn’t comfortable swearing, but was fierce about her children and protecting them.”
“… So was just this extraordinarily decent person. She was uncomfortable with swearing or any kind I mean God knows how many times my room was a mess and she kind of just please just clean your room but just a real decent heart and a real soft lovely lovely lady who never would harm anybody. But the one thing with my Mum is she if anybody hurt her kids, she would destroy them…..She had relationships where she’d stopped talking to people for the rest of her life until she passed away because they had done something to cross her children and she had an ability to be angry only then. But even that didn’t come to her comfortably. She didn’t like it. She didn’t wear hatred and anger well at all and yet she knew what was injust and she would try.”
Whatever Angie’s reaction will be, I know this will be a well-chosen words. Angie is very good at that. She can get her point across in an appropriate and tactful manner yet right on target. She also chooses her battle very well. You know, she’s an intelligent woman.
First of all, Brad Pitt did not leave his marriage because he fell in love with Angelina. He left his marriage because he fell out of love with Jennifer. Just like I doubt Tom Cruise ended the marriage because of Penelope, the marriage ended because things between him and Nicole just didn’t work out. Sometimes feelings change, sometimes people grow apart and end up at different stages in their life, sometimes people develop different goals and values. Falling in love with someone else is merely a catalyst, if even that. Somehow, people seem to get Tom’s situation, but didn’t get Brad’s. Maybe because Tom and Nicole garnered less attention as Nicole was less famous back then, maybe because Penelope garnered less attention, or maybe because Brad and Jen’s pretending to be so happy in front of the cameras came back and bit them in the ass. Also, Nicole has always spoken not only favourably towards Tom, but towards Katie as well. She has praised their relationship and never shown bitterness like Jen has. It could be because they have kids together, and a good mom would never publicly badmouth their dad unless Tom was actually a terrible dad. Hopefully Jen would stop once she finds a husband and family of her own like Nicole did. Once you have kids, there are many things that you will no longer do. Like posing nude on magazine covers.
Ligaya, good idea! Here goes:
Everyone has differing opinions on what constitutes cheating, and when a marriage is offically over. Some people thinking cheating is any type of physical or emotinal affair, even simply falling in love, and they see no gray area. Others see cheating as anything physical.
Complicating matters further, people have differing opinions on just what constitues emotinal cheating (for example, some people think that even simply falling in love is emotinal cheating, while others don’t believe that falling in love should be considered emotinal cheating).
As for when a marriage is over: Some people think it’s only once the ink is dry on the divorce papers (and most of those people seem to think that, even then, the divorcees should wait awhile before moving on to new partners). Others think a marriage is over once the couple has legally seperated.
Because of all this, we’ll probably never ALL agree on what did or didn’t happen on that movie set (obviously some of us agree with each other!).
I also want to add that, in Jen’s defense, I honestly think she was just trying to be funny with her comment about the J-Ps to GQ. I don’t think she meant that comment in a mean-spirited way at all.
I agree with some of the readers above about how well Nicole Kidman handled it in pretty much the same circumstance. I have a lot of respect for Nicole as she handled the thing with a high level of dignity, maturity and self-esteem.
I also think that Jen’s jokes on GQ using Brad and Angie’s kids are inappropriate. She is older than Angie and is about the same age as Nicole, but she appears to be much more immature than them.
I can’t accept that Jennifer having a joke that includes the kids is okay, even if I accept she was trying to make light of a situation she obviously finds difficult. But she just needs to pass on commenting and the media will stop smelling a good story. Nicole did a big “no comment” for ages and it kept them at bay. Brad and Angelina are obviously a great match. It is a bit sad he was with someone when he found Angie, but not the end of the world. And despite my comments earlier that are critical of Cruise (although really critical of the way he and Pene were not treated like Brad and Angie have been) I truly think Nicole is better off because that man seems to be barking mad. But that is just my opionion and Katie probably thinks he is great. Each to their own and Brad and Angelina seem to be a great team.
Oh boy just read the “considering the source nothing surprises me” quote from Jen about Angelina saing she and Brad fell in love during MMS. Give it away now! She is so much in danger of just becoming the pin-up for being a victim. I am more and more happy Brad said what he did about falling in love during that film. Sorry for all the comments – am signing off now for a while!
I’m so on the same wave link with many of you that Brad & Jennifer were going their separate ways as they were not even living in the same house or going to the same events for several months.
If any of you remember some of their old interviews (separate of course), they made comments that eluded to “some things don’t last forever. Your on this ride and you take it as far as it will take you as long as its good. Its an ajustment that requires so much give and take. Your with your best friend and its great so you hope that you are in it for the long haul”.
There are so many more, just can’t think of them, but if anyone followed them you know what I am talking about. This always struck me as a little off for a couple who were suppose to be so in love and perfect for each other. When he started mentioning having a family and that he could walk away from the business, she tried even harder to make a go of it in the movies and put off talking about babies in interviews.
This is when you could start to feel the strain in their marriage. It alway seemed that she was so much more focused on make a name for herself in the movies and he was focused on starting a family.
Perhaps they just met at the wrong time. One sacrificed a marriage for the sake of a career, the other sacrificed a marriage for a chance to have a family. I think in the end they both got what they wanted. And that is the end of that chapter!
what source was Jen referring to when she said “considering the source nothing surprises me”?
deborah, Yes, Yes, I remember all of those comments. And yesterday when I received my People magazine there was a story and pictures of Tom C. He said that he loved working with Brad P and even then when Tom’s daughter Bella was on the set he could see that Brad wanted children. JA can say whatever she wants, but the bottom line is, that she wanted to improve her status in Hollywood and just didn’t happen.
http://www.showbizspy.com/180478/bra…eautiful-woman
Brad Pitt: ‘Angelina Jolie is a Beautiful Woman’
By Adam, December 12 2008
Brad Pitt says he’s “very lucky” to be dating Angelina Jolie.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button star raises six children with the Tomb Raider actress.
And Pitt insists he doesn’t takes his other-half’s beauty for granted – and often has to pinch himself to make sure their relationship isn’t a dream.
He says “Sometimes I wake up and I look at her and I’m like, ‘Wow!’.
“She is a beautiful woman but she’s also so warm and kind as a person and that makes her even more beautiful. What can I say? I’m a very lucky man.”
Hi Joliepittfanatic, i agreed with you that The X try to be funny with this comment. But The X is not stupid, the X knows that this funny comment will help sell the magazine and promote her movie and her carreer.
I’m also glad that Brad defends Angie, the person he loves. It’s about time.
Nicole Kidman is really classy, and she always has been. It wasn’t long ago that she told a magazine (I forget which) something along the lines of being being happy for Tom and Katie and that they were good together.
Nicole seems really happy with Keith Urban now, which is great.
Tom Cruise is a little batty but I like him for some reason and I love Katie. Despite his quirks, I still like him as an actor and he is very gracious with his fans – he also strikes me as being a really good dad.
Jolie-Pitt fans check this out http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20081211-177467/Brad-Pitt-on-Shilohs-film-debut
Also a very good interview with Brad..Shiloh is in Curious Case, a cameo.. i love the Jolie-Pitts. God Bless them all!
I like Nicole, too. I am curious though as to why she gets bagged on a lot. There are blogs and comments that just shout their dislike for her, and I never understood it because she seems somewhat low key to me. We don’t really hear much about her personal life. She was relatively quiet about the break up with Tom. I understand that celebrities are always going to have their non-fans, but I am just a tad boggled by some of the dislike for her.
Hmm, there’s a lot to ponder in all these comments but I think Ligaya made a good point when she said that at the end of the day, we all have different cultural/moral systems for understanding the terms ‘cheating’ and ‘marriage.’
It reminds me a bit of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, if only because at that time Clinton quibbled over the definition of ’sex.’ No need to go into details, but some might call what happened between them sex, others not, but at the end of the day pretty much everyone agreed it was cheating.
In the case of Brad and Angie, I think it’s obvious they weren’t physical with each other before the divorce was final, and I believe that’s what Angie means when she says she’d never do what her father did. I mean, do people expect them to tell the world exactly when they first slept together?
It’s my opinion that falling in love is one of life’s greatest experiences, and not something you have all that much control over. But what Brad did is not ‘cheating’ in the way that Clinton cheated on Hilary.
And finally, sometimes it’s sad when a marriage ends, sometimes it’s not–when you’re friends with a couple, and it’s obvious it’s not working out, you sometimes feel happy for them when they break up, even if it’s tough at first for one party or the other. I think it took a lot of guts for Brad to leave Jen, and Angie to be with Brad, given the media attention and bad-mouthing that followed. They probably think it’s been a small price to pay for being together–truly happy and living life to the fullest.
Luise – the way that quote about the “source” was printed over here was that JA was asked what she thought about Angelina’s comments that they fell in love when making MMP and she said “considering the source nothing surprises me”. She would have been so much better off saying “I really don’t comment about that”.
So funny, I was reading all your later comments and its was like deja vu again..I thought we were going to put the love triangle issue to rest? I can see how this can go on forever and still don’t agree…how about we agree to disagree? Good times jp fans!
i just bought the magazine tonight and i enjoyed reading his interview. i didn’t know that such a big star like him would still be put down by movie directors and was suggested to have some acting classes. and the fact that a photographer rented a room above theirs on the hospital and attempted to drill a hole to their ceiling just to have the twins first photos was beyond bizarre.
Neela, at the risk of going a bit off-topic, I agree with you! I don’t understand why Nicole gets bashed so much (just as I don’t understand why Angie gets bashed so much)!
angela, wow! So THAT’S what Angie was referring to when she mentioned the paps trying to drill a hole through the ceiling of her hospital room. I wonder how the paps even knew which hospital room she was in, though? I highly doubt they were able to just waltz up to the front desk and ask what room Angelina Jolie was staying in!
Anyway, some people (not neccesarily on this blog, but on other blogs), have questioned whether or not the paps trying to drill a hole through the ceiling of Angie’s hospital room was true (this was before this interview came out, obviously, and all we had to go on was Angie’s rather vague comment about the drilling), considering the fact that it wasn’t all over the news (like when those paps in cameo gear broke into the J-Ps property).
However, I have a theory about why that ended up being the case. I think that the hospital wanted to keep the incident quiet not just for Brad and Angie’s sake, but for the sake of the other patients there as well (when Angie was first admitted to the hospital, I even remember the hopsital spokeswoman saying that all the paps around the hospital and such was disruptive to the other patients).
All of that said, after hearing Brad’s comment about the paps renting the room above theirs and trying to drill a hole into the ceiling of their room, I cannot believe that anyone can possibly still ask why they chose to sell the first photos of the twins to PEOPLE!
I’m not sure how many people would really question the new-born photos. It seems so obvious that they were forestalling papz making money, and they gave the money instead to charity. I think there are more questions about W Mag – and even Larry King asked Brad about how they balance a desire for privacy and a business that requires publicity – but I have seen the pictures now and while I still think they are incredibily intimate and let the public too far into a private side of their lives, they are so beautiful and they show just how much Brad adores Angelina, that it is hard not to like them. They are like a visual poem to her.
Oh, I also forget to mention that I LOVE how GQ said that Brad “raises six kids with the Tomb Raider actress”. I am glad to see a magazine NOT mention how three of the kids are adopted for once!
I agree there will always be disagreement. But unless and until X stops talking about it, neither will anyone else. LOL, it’d be easier to be above it all if I had a good example to follow – like Nicole, Uma and Reese. Or Mary Louise Parker. It’d be easier to let bygones be bygones if X didn’t seem hellbent on adding more and fresher fuel to the fire. And bringing innocent children into the crossfire – a new low, even for her. It’s so bad even her cheerleaders are calling her out for it – post-GQ cover (these popped up in my Angelina alerts): Jezebel – Dear Jennifer Aniston: Enough Already; E! Ted Casablanca – Morning Piss: Jen Peddles Desperation—Again!; and Yahoo Movies – Jennifer Aniston Sells Magazines. Can She Still Sell Movie Tickets?
It’s not like these are old offenses we’re talking about – they’re new moving violations. What, in the name of civility, she’s allowed to get away with whatever she wants? In her immortal words, “nuh-uh.” In my neighborhood, we stand up for what’s right – we do the right thing.
So X is on her world tour to sell her new movie. Here’s the stations of her cross, from what I remember. The chorus is the same – including that she wants people to stay out of her business at the same time she’s talking about her business, but she’s added a new chapter/verse here and there.
–Vogue
–Oprah
–Barnes/NYT hit piece on Jolie: possible quid-pro-quo for…
–NYT Magazine cover
–USA Today interview
–Entertainment Weekly
–GQ cover
I know I may be missing a couple things because this was just off the top of my head. I think we can count on this cycle continuing until the movie opens.
And just like the situation in the Middle East with all the different countries involved, or the situation with India/Pakistan/Afghanistan – it may seem to outsiders like a repetition of the same thing over and over again, but it’s not, it’s a lot more complicated and nuanced, the politics and balance of forces change. We are all outsiders to the JPs’ lives, we can only observe, research and make educated guesses.
UNDER MOD:
I agree there will always be disagreement unless and until X stops talking about it . . . It’d be easier to let bygones be bygones if X didn’t seem hellbent on adding more and fresher fuel to the fire. And bringing innocent children into the crossfire – a new low, even for her. It’s so bad even her cheerleaders are calling her out for it: Jezebel – Dear Jennifer Aniston: Enough Already; E! Ted Casablanca – Morning Piss: Jen Peddles Desperation—Again!; and Yahoo Movies – Jennifer Aniston Sells Magazines. Can She Still Sell Movie Tickets?
UNDER MOD x 2:
I agree there will always be disagreement unless and until X stops talking about it . . . It’d be easier to let bygones be bygones if X didn’t seem hellbent on adding more and fresher fuel to the fire. And bringing innocent children into the crossfire – a new low, even for her.
Finally got to read the whole interview. One thing I find interesting about Brad’s defense of Angie is that he says she’s one of the most honorable persons he knows. I get the sense that honor is really important to him, which is why he was honest with X during the filming of M&MS, and has never bashed her since (or defended himself against X’s bashing–remember the “missing a sensitivity chip” comment). I think Brad and Angie have tried to do the right thing. In contrast, I have always felt that X will do just about anything to sell a movie–including pretending to be still in a relationship with Vince V. until after the Break Up DVD came out. I feel sorry for her. The bids for publicity (joking about the kids, posing nude, etc.) seem increasingly desparate. Meanwhile, congrats to the J-Ps on having 4 of their 2008 movies recognized with Golden Globes nominees. And of course, Wanted was a huge hit as well.
Susan, I never said that it’s okay for JA to make a joke involving the kids. I was just trying to point out that I don’t think she meant anything bad by it, and I don’t think she made that quote as a way to hurt Brad and Angie.
UNDER MOD- My explanation of what I meant when I defended JA’s comment about the kids.
Has anyone considered the fact of JA moving on with her life has included several so called boy friends, but yet no long term relationships. If JA is America’s girl next door. The door is very difficult one to open.
Please go to parade.com/personality and vote for angie as a screen legend-in-the-making.
DT, good point about honor being important to Brad.
sarita, i wish you would post your thoughts more often. you explained your thoughts very well. great insight.
chi jong- Thanks for sharing! So now it is confirmed. Sweet Shi is indeed in CCOB! However, one thing bothered me about that interview. Brad said the following at one point: “I look down and there’s our boy from Vietnam, our daughter from Ethiopia, our girl who was born in Namibia, our son who’s from Cambodia and they are brothers and sisters, man.”
Ordinarily I’d be making comments about how sweet that is, but he made a major boo-boo in my opinion. He left out Knox and Viv. No where did he say, “our girl and boy who were born in France,” or “our daughter and son who were born in France”. I’m also rather surprised he did that, as Brad seems to try to include all of his kids when discussing them in interviews (usually by saying “the kids…” or “they…” or “We’re all….”).
UNDER MOD- Brad left out Knox and Viv when he was discussing the countries the kids are from in the interview chi jong linked….
Sarita, excellent post! That was exactly what I was trying to explain in my post about how our differing opinions make the “triangle” a touchy subject for most of us. You, however, said it much better than I did!
I also want to add a bit to what you said about how it’s obvious that Brad and Angie didn’t get physical with each other until the divorce was final, because I know that comment is bound to raise some eyebrows due to the timing of Shiloh’s conception.
If you do the Math, sweet Shi was likely concieved at the end of August or beginning of September 2006 (I am of the belief that Shi was actually due in early June. There were rumors going around that she was, and she was born by planned C-section due to being breech. Planned C-sections are usually performed one to two weeks before the due date to prevent the mother from going into labor, so I’m inclined to believe that the rumors about the early June due date were true).
A judge signed off on Brad and JA’s divorce in August. After that they just had to get through the mandatory two-month California waiting period, hence the October announcement of the divorce being final. For all practical purposes, however, the divorce was techincally finalized in August.
All of that said, I agree with sarita’s comment about Brad and Angie telling the world when they first slept together. When it comes down to it, that’s what they’d have to do to confirm to everyone that they didn’t get physical until the divorce was final (and even then, some nay-sayers would be saying that they were lying).
However, when they first slept together is nobody’s business but their own! I mean, really, that’s about as nosey as you can get, IMO!
STILL UNDER MOD- My one beef about Brad’s interview with the Phillipine Daily Inquirer.