Brad Pitt opens up about being depressed. Image Source: US Weekly
Brad Pitt is opening up about feeling alone.
Actor Brad Pitt recently opened up to GQ about the feeling of being alone in his life and living with what he calls low-grade depression for years. Brad Pitt has been sober for about six years and said that he finds music is what fills him up with joy and said that he thinks that all of our hearts are broken.
Brad Pitt shared that he tries to remember his dreams and write them down because he is curious to know what’s going on in his mind when he's not at the helm. He admitted that he had spent years with low-grade depression and that he thought joy was a discovery later in life but music fills him with joy. He also said that he was always moving with the currents, drifting from one thing to the next. Brad revealed during the interview that it wasn't until he decided to accept that and try to embrace both the beautiful and the ugly sides of himself that he was able to capture the moments of joy.
The actor added that he has always felt alone in his life, whether it was growing up as a kid, or being alone even here in the industry, and it was not until recently that he decided to embrace his family and friends. Brad said that what’s with the line said by either Rilke or Einstein, one can believe it or not, but it was something about when one can walk with paradox, carry real pain and real joy simultaneously. He added that it is maturity and growth.
Brad Pitt shared that art is inexplicable and something that gives one goosebump, that could make the hair stand up at the back of your neck, that brings a tear to the eyes, and it’s because maybe someone understood it before you and it is a reminder that you are not alone. He said that he just always wants to make art and if he is not making it, he is dying in some way.
Brad Pitt, who is all set to appear as an assassin recovering from a case of burnout and is returning to his high-stakes job in ‘Bullet Train', an action-comedy thriller movie directed by David Leitch. Brad Pitt’s character is someone who has been a misguided sense of confidence about his fitness for the job or duty, and he co-stars with Brian Tyree Henery, who said that what he most remembers is the laughter, and Brad’s laugh is infectious and described that he brings a kind of ease to set when there is nothing overworked. The movie comes out August 5th.
Later this year, he will reunite with Margot Robbie in Damien Chazelle’s directorial debut, Babylon, which is an old Hollywood epic that focuses on industry figures adapting to the transition from silent films to talkies.
During the interview, Brad Pitt mentioned that he considers himself on the last leg of his career and added that this could be the last semester or trimester and is looking forward to see how he shapes it. Brad explained that in California, there is a lot of talk about being your authentic self and added that it would plague him, and according to him, being authentic meant getting to a place of acknowledging those deep scars that one carries.
Quentin Tarantino said that when Brad Pitt decides to retire from the industry, the industry is going to lose one of the last remaining big-screen movie stars, and he explained that Brad Pitt is just a different breed of man, which is very hard to describe, just like describing start shine. He added that Brad Pitt is extremely talented and can understand the scene.
One of his friends, Feal, the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s bassist, said that when Brad Pitt is lost in the process of creating, there is something magical about that and added that it’s like this thing that lights something inside a human being that gives them power and opens them up. At Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, the production company is putting out 'Women Talking', an adaptation of Miriam Toews’s novel about a group of Mennonite women who unite against their rapists, directed by Sarah Polley. Then there is also the forthcoming film version of Joyce Carol Oates’s Blonde, a fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe’s interior life, directed by Andrew Dominik.
Source: GQ
