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BST, 2. 8 August 2. The A- listers known as 'Brangelina' haven't acted together since the 2. Mr. Smith, which grossed $4. Second time down the aisle (onscreen): The 3. Malta (pictured here in Mr. Smith)'It's not a big movie, it's not an action movie,' the Maleficent star - who's ready to retire from acting - told Extra in May.'It's the kind of movie we love but aren't often cast in. It's a very experimental, independent- type film where we get to be actors together and be really raw, open, try things.'The A- listers known as 'Brangelina' haven't acted together since the 2. ![]() Mr. Smith, which grossed $4. It's not a big movie, it's not an action movie': Angelina and her 5. Brad will next play 'Wardaddy' in WWII flick Fury with Shia La. Beouf (R), Scott Eastwood, and Michael Pe. Brad Pitt on kids, his marriage, and being directed by Angelina There was a time when Brad Pitt, like most people, would enter a hotel through the front door, but that hasn’t happened for the best part of 2. And so it is that here, as everywhere else, he has been denied the pleasures of a hotel lobby thronged with the svelte and the affluent – for this is a very swanky hotel indeed – and too the pleasures of taking a stroll on a sunny autumn morning unmolested, lending his fourth- floor room, luxurious as it is, a curious air of confinement. It is an air somewhat exaggerated by the fact that, in his downbeat sweatshirt and tracksuit trousers, the Kangol cap pulled down low over his forehead, the straggly half- beard, Pitt looks less like you expect him to look and more like a man attempting to disguise himself as his own minder. In fact, Pitt’s minder is outside in the corridor, an imposing presence, standing quietly beside the gaggle of clipboard- wielding publicists. He is perhaps less a precautionary measure for Pitt – who with his muscled 6ft frame appears perfectly capable of looking after himself – than for his wife, Angelina Jolie, who is in an adjacent room being interrogated by a handful of European journalists. Being the most recognised show- business couple in the world has its own perils and disadvantages. Pitt walks over to turn off the air conditioning and reaches for two bottles of water. He is a courteous man, his manner attentive and earnest. Very earnest. He is in London for discussions about his latest project as a producer, 'a satire about the war in Afghanistan’ (he does not elaborate), but mostly to talk about his role in By the Sea, a new film written by, directed by and co- starring Jolie. Watch the By the Sea trailer here. Play! 0. 1: 1. 6By the Sea is not quite the film that one might have expected from Jolie – whose two projects so far as a director, In the Land of Blood and Honey (set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War) and Unbroken (about the American runner and airman Louis Zamperini), take place in war zones – and Pitt, a versatile actor, but one who has most recently been seen fighting zombies in World War Z and as the hard- bitten commander of a Sherman tank in Fury. A study in the three ages of marriage, set in the 1. American couple who arrive in a secluded holiday resort in France. Roland (Pitt) is a novelist suffering from writer’s block, in search of inspiration for his next book; Vanessa (Jolie) is a former dancer carrying the burden of a past trauma, which it would be giving away too much to reveal. While she sinks deeper into a well of depression – listlessly turning the pages of Vogue and staring out to sea – his growing frustration leads to long drinking bouts at the local bo. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in their new film By the Sea, set in France in the 1. Credit. Courtesy of Plan B Entertainment. The disintegration of Roland and Vanessa’s marriage is thrown into even sharper relief when a honeymooning couple move into the next room in their hotel. The two couples strike up an uneasy friendship, which takes an unsettling turn when Vanessa discovers a peephole through which to observe the young honeymooners. The mood is studied and languorous. It is a film in which everything, not least the two stars, is beautiful: the distressed splendour of the hotel, the lingering shots of sunlight playing on the ocean, the immaculate Citro. Half of the film is in French, with subtitles. There are no explosions, no earth- shifting events, no big, shocking tales. The whole movie takes place in a cafe, a hotel room and a car. I mean, it doesn’t get much more sparse. It’s very quiet, but elegant – it’s such an elegant film. In By the Sea Jolie and Pitt play a couple at a crossroads in their marriage Credit. Courtesy of Plan B Entertainment. It’s really about a couple,’ he continues, 'who are in that stage in life that the old fairy- tale books don’t explain – when the romance has dulled, the banality of the everyday has become the constant and, as all people do in their life, they’re facing grief.’A middle- aged husband and wife, playing a middle- aged husband and wife at a critical moment in their marriage – it does not take long for Pitt to make the leap, as if he has not only been anticipating the discussion but can’t wait for it.'Certainly the attrition rate of Hollywood couples looms large.’ He swigs from his bottle of water. That we have this story together. That we know each other. That we watch each other getting older, through amazing moments, joys, pains.’He repeats the phrase with a sense almost of wonderment in his voice. It means so much to me. I’m just surprised, because you hear people talking about the old ball and chain, and people trying to recapture youth, as if that’s the impulse – but it’s not the impulse, it’s not the impulse at all.’Pitt and Jolie on set together. Credit. Courtesy of Plan B Entertainment. But isn’t that what you enter into a relationship expecting – or at the very least hoping for? But again, there are no books to tell you what year 1. What I’m saying is, I’m surprised how much it means to me, how much value I place in it. I’d equate it to having kids. Everyone talks about the joy of having kids – blah, blah, blah. But I never knew how much I could love something until I looked in the faces of my children.’ Pitt, 5. Jolie, 4. 0, are parents to six children, three biological – Shiloh, nine, and seven- year- old twins Knox and Vivienne – and three who are adopted: Maddox, 1. Pax, 1. 1, and Zahara, 1. It is a family unit that he describes as 'a lot of love, a lot of fighting, a lot of refereeing; a lot of teeth- brushing and spilling. But so much fun.’ 'There are no books to tell you what year 1. Credit. Courtesy of Plan B Entertainment. It was always his dream to have a big family, he says. At college he had a friend with whom he would sometimes stay who had five brothers and two sisters. His mom would be making breakfast for everyone, throwing eggs and pancakes around, and I thought, that’s the way I want to do it.’He laughs. Pitt has a younger brother and sister. He grew up in Springfield, Missouri, where his father ran a trucking company – a Baptist upbringing, 'with all the Christian guilt about what you can and cannot, should and shouldn’t do’. But one thing my folks always stressed was being capable, doing things for yourself. He was really big on integrity – and that informed a lot of what ? I feel like my job is to show ’em around, help them find what they want to do with their life, put as many things in front of them, and pull them back when they get out of line, so they know who they are.’The peripatetic nature of Pitt and Jolie’s lives – working on location (he as an actor; she as a director, having cut back on acting), her travels on behalf of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and her own Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative – means the family is frequently on the move; the children are homeschooled. It must be hard, I suggest, to impress on them what constitutes a normal life. Because we’re migratory workers in a sense, they have this wonderful thing where they get to be students of the world. They have memories of being in Vietnam, or that time in Paris, or over in Calgary. The downside is friends, sleepovers, team sports – these have been the challenges that we’ve had to work out. And Mom is a matador about it all – she’s fantastic. We get their friends to us a lot. And then when we set up in one place for any length of time I get on the team sports, because I really want them to have that understanding of being on the team.’He and Jolie do their best to 'hopscotch’ projects, as he puts it, so that only one of them is away at any given time, while the other looks after the children. In Mr & Mrs Smith where the two first met. Credit. For years, he says, they had talked about working together – 'but we weren’t going to do a Mr & Mrs Smith Two . Done that – although there were some funny ideas for a sequel.’What they wanted, he says, was a 'Cassavetes, John and Gen experience’ – a reference to the actor and director John Cassavetes, who, with his actress wife Gena Rowlands, made a series of intense chamber pieces in the 1. A Woman Under the Influence and Opening Night.'We wanted to have that kind of autonomy, of making something together that was small and intimate, and at the same time make it a family affair where our kids could be running around on set.’Ostensibly set in France, By the Sea was filmed on the island of Gozo, off Malta, where the production took over a secluded cove, renting houses on the hill above to accommodate Pitt, Jolie and the family. Their eldest son, Maddox, worked as a produc- tion assistant. I need to know I’m in good hands, and I trust Angie with my life. I love her instincts. She’s ferocious with a story and she’s really decisive at her post – in command.'And the second thing would be, she’s my wife. There’s no dividing line when the camera’s rolling or when it’s not. We’re having the same conversation when we’re making breakfast, when we’re setting the shot, when we’re in the scene or out of the scene. Of course we have our own shorthand: I know immediately if she thought a take smelled. But it’s the same as any good director I’ve worked with in that it’s a matter of trust. I know I’m in good hands. Just don’t be late.’ He laughs. He would later complain of feeling 'used and completely misunderstood and misread’. But he was able to parlay his box- office appeal into more diverse, thoughtful and complex roles in such films as Fight Club, Babel and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, as well as flexing his muscle with his production company, Plan B, which has a mandate to 'get difficult material that might otherwise not get made to the screen’, and which has been responsible for films including Selma, 1. Years a Slave and The Tree of Life. The most valuable word in an actor’s vocabulary, he says, is 'no’. I see ’em all for me.
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