Thu. Mar 28th, 2024
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP/Shutterstock (10374794bm) Brad Pitt poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Ad Astra' at the 76th edition of the Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy Film Festival 2019 Ad Astra Red Carpet, Venice, Italy - 29 Aug 2019

Hollywood actor Brad Pitt recently sat down with veteran actor Anthony Hopkins for a chat for the Interview Magazine where he talked about his struggle with alcohol.

When Hopkins asked him about it, Pitt said: “I just saw it as a disservice to myself, as an escape” and called it necessary “to some degree.”

The Ad Astra actor also opened up about the blame he is fighting with. “I’m realizing, as a real act of forgiveness for myself for all the choices that I’ve made that I’m not proud of, that I value those missteps, because they led to some wisdom, which led to something else,” he said. 

According to the New York Times, Pitt spent a year and a half at Alcoholics Anonymous, a non-profit organisation which helps in fighting alcohol addiction, after his divorce from actress Angelina Jolie in 2017. He added, “So you’re embracing all your mistakes. You’re saying, ‘Let’s be our foibles, our embarrassment. There’s a beauty in that.”

The 55 year old actor continued, “I’m seeing that these days. I think we’re living in a time where we’re extremely judgmental and quick to treat people as disposable. We’ve always placed great importance on the mistake.”

“But the next move, what you do after the mistake, is what really defines a person. We’re all going to make mistakes. But what is that next step? We don’t, as a culture, seem to stick around to see what that person’s next step is. And that’s the part I find so much more invigorating and interesting”, Pitt told Hopkins. 

Pitt was last seen playing an autistic astronaut in James Grey’s sci-fi film Ad Astra and also portrayed the role of a stunt double in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

By Yash Singh

A film graduate who writes for a living, apparently.

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