Tag: Brad Pitt

One Week: Brad & Angelina

One Week: Brad & Angelina

Posted November 17, 2008

As one of the most-watched women in the world, Angelina Jolie, who stars in Clint Eastwood’s new film, Changeling, has been photographed by thousands of strangers. But what happens when the man behind the camera is her partner and the father of her children, Brad Pitt? In these remarkably intimate and unguarded portraits, commissioned by W, Pitt captures a week in the life of Jolie and their family at home in the South of France. Every family has its unique rites of passage. In the Jolie-Pitt household, one such event is the day a kid begins collecting daggers. Angelina Jolie […]

Brad Pitt Q&A

Posted October 1, 2007

…for the past few weeks Prague has been home to Pitt and Jolie, whose presence has made this capital the red-hot center of the celebrity universe. The couple’s effect on the city is not lost on Pitt, who, playing the role of Mr. Mom while Angelina films the thriller Wanted, faces the same paparazzi assault he would in L.A. as he drops Maddox off at the Élysée school and shepherds his other three kids around. (In case, like Brad Pitt, you’re not a reader of US Weekly, the roll call is: Maddox Chivan, 6; Pax Thien, 3; Zahara Marley, 2; […]

Fun with George and Brad

Fun with George and Brad

Posted June 1, 2007

Being one of the most famous men on earth comes with its share of problems. You can’t take your kids to the playground. The simple pleasures just evaporate. Like, say, sneaking a smoke while waiting for your buddy George Clooney in a villa outside Cannes. “Sorry about this,” Brad Pitt says, contorting his body into a mess of angles and elbows to hide behind a low wall and light up. “Actually, I’m less worried about the paparazzi catching me than someone, ahem, who doesn’t know I still smoke once in a while.” Pitt puffs away, extinguishing the cigarette only when […]

Mr. Pitt & His Magical Mattress

Mr. Pitt & His Magical Mattress

Posted September 1, 2006

On a hot summer afternoon, the most glamorous birth father in America sits in a diner booth and tries to make sense of the world. A thunderous revving noise ruptures the quiet of the Spitfire Grill on a lazy afternoon in Santa Monica, California, accompanied by a series of subsonic reverberations that tinkle the ice cubes of my overfull water glass, breaking the surface tension, sending droplets down the side. Abruptly, all is still. The waitress resumes filling the saltshakers. Steely Dan harmonizes on the sound system overhead. The door opens, and he walks in–his helmet beneath his arm–like Achilles […]

Troy Story

Posted June 17, 2006

A horse may just be a horse, but in Troy, it’s a lot more spectacular when paired with the likes of Orando Bloom, Brad Pitt, and Eric Bana. This epically expensive tale of passion, pride – and, of course, that face – might be one of the greatest stories ever sold. An exclusive from the Cabo San Lucas set of Troy. It isn’t pretty, what they’re doing to Orlando Bloom. He’s flung himself onto the hard-packed Mexican dirt several times now, enacting the turning point of a complex scene in which his character, Paris, has just taken a (terrible) battering […]

Brad Pitt| The Celebrity

Posted June 1, 2006

He lured the paparazzi to Africa, where people really needed the attention. If it wasn’t for Brad Pitt, most Americans would never have heard of Namibia. They might not know about AIDS orphans in South Africa, or the plight of children in Haiti, or what transpired at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Pitt, 42, has been a movie star for 15 years—and a paparazzi target for nearly as long. Celebrity mags have made millions reporting on his love life, and the obsession only intensified when he began romancing Angelina Jolie. So he started fighting back—but not by punching […]

Domestic Bliss

Domestic Bliss

Posted July 17, 2005

Sometime last year, Brad Pitt began giving a lot of thought to unhappy marriages. The actor was in Los Angeles filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith. While the movie uses domestic ennui as a backdrop for a series of high-style action sequences, Pitt wanted to tell a darker, truer tale, one that explored the “unidentifiable malaise” that so often haunts a seemingly happy couple. “You don’t know what’s wrong because the marriage is everything you signed up for.” That was the inspiration for this shoot, which Pitt created with photographer Steven Klein. Tired of celebrity portraiture and always up for an […]

Dodging Bullets

Dodging Bullets

Posted June 17, 2005

It’s not the first time news of a much-rumored big-movie romance has gone supernova. But… the saga of [Brad and Angelina] sets a new, 21st-century benchmark–a sort of perfect publicity storm centered on two beautiful people whom the public is treating as daydream playthings, to the chagrin of at least one player among Mr. & Mrs. Smith‘s creative team. “I don’t like the exploitation of personal lives in tabloids,” says Akiva Goldsman, one of five main producers on Smith. “I think it’s grim. I don’t think it helps anybody. Do I think it helps or hurts the movie? I think […]

American Idol

American Idol

Posted June 1, 2005

With a divorce in the works and paparazzi in his rearview mirror, Brad Pitt should be in lockdown. Instead, he’s having a candid conversation about how it feels to be the most hunted man in Hollywood. Tucked behind the Chateau Marmont, past the pool, sits bungalow 3, a slablike outbuilding for the privacy-minded guest. The entrance used to be a simple metal gate. Now the gate is covered by a gawker-proof tarp with a fist-size peephole cut into it. Shortly after I ring the bell, a familiar blue eye fills the hole. “Hello!” In the tranquil twilight, there’s a neighborliness […]