nothing to prove anymore - but is he willing to prove it?
Brad Pitt is having some second thoughts about his life in the gilded cage. Says Pitt:
“This publicity machine is out of control. It’s everything we didn’t sign up for,” he says on the press tours that come with releasing a film.
“There’s this whole other entity that you get sucked into. You have to go and sell your wares.”
“Somehow you’re not supporting your film if you don’t get out on a show and talk about your personal life. It has nothing to do with why I do this.”
"Hey everybody - I just want you all to know that if I had a heart it would be in the right place!" I'd really like to believe the fellow. The trouble is that though actors often say this very few of them ever really mean it. Besides with Oscar around the corner this could be some kind of phony nonchalance. It's supposed to improve your chances of winning by seeming not really interested - Hollywood really is that much of a massive ego game. However that particular gambit might've been played out already by the likes of Marlon Brando and George C Scott - Brando in fact seemed to care very little for the Hollywood rat race and made a point of getting out!
Instead Mr Pitt is making provocative statements just before the Academy Awards (The Academy Awards anagram to 'Watch a seedy drama.'). So I have to question his sincerity (I don't have to but I do). Well he wouldn't be the first sell out who had second thoughts; however I suspect that he'd merely like to renegotiate the deal. That's the trouble with celebrity soul searching, they seldom ever find anything (or to quote a line from 1966 Best Picture A Man for All Seasons "You lost your innocence sometime ago, you're only just noticing"). Soul searching in Hollywood is more hopeless than the quest to find intelligent life in space (we haven't yet determined the presence of intelligent life here on Earth!).
Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
I say that I'd like to believe him. He may even be half serious. As Frank Navarre, founder of photography agency X-17, recently told the Daily News that, to Pitt, fame “is not a game - it’s war.” Now I suspect that's a half truth - it's not so much war, as that he means business. I have the up most empathy for those who don't play games, and have the up most respect for his poor sportsmanship. I just hope that he doesn't get an attack of mercury poisoning before the Oscars! Good luck with that fire dance, little moth.
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