This is Brad Pitt’s world and we all just live in it!
The 58-year-old actor and producer of the superstar recently opened up about life, art and everything in a new interview with GQ, during which he explained how he “hides a lot” at his home in Los Angeles for much of the pandemic – And how he used that time to quit smoking and drinking altogether.
While chewing nicotine mint, Pete explained that he refused to smoke cigarettes during the pandemic after realizing that he had not had the opportunity to simply “reduce”.
“I don’t have this ability to do just one or two a day,” he explained. “It’s not in my makeup. I am everything. And I will drive into the ground. I lost my privileges. “
The actor went on to explain that after his ex-wife Angelina Jolie filed for divorce in 2016, he sobered up and spent a year and a half visiting Alcoholics Anonymous – although, given his star status, he had to do adjustments in the name of maintaining its confidentiality.
“I had a really great male band here that was really private and selective, so it was safe,” he said. “Because I’ve seen other people’s things that were recorded while pouring their insides, and that’s just disgusting to me.”
Pete shares six children with Jolie: Maddox, 20; Pax, 18; Zachary, 17; Shiloh, 16; and twins Vivienne and Knox, 13. Jolie adopted Maddox and Zahara before her relationship with Pete (he later adopted them both).
And yet, while he keeps the old memories of smoking a cigarette “in the morning, with coffee – just delicious”, he also knows that his body can not tolerate it in the same way as others can, such as British artist David Hockney . “He’s still bonding, the hardcore English way. He looks great,” Pete told Hockney. “I don’t think I have that. I’m just at this age when nothing good comes of it.”
The actor spoke candidly about his struggle to remember new people and recognize their faces, which was an obstacle throughout his adult life – especially at parties.
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Pete believes he may suffer from prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize people’s faces (otherwise known as facial blindness). Although he wants to remember the people he meets – and is “ashamed” that he can’t – above all, he fears that the condition has led people to accept that he is distant, distant or self-absorbed.
“Nobody believes me!” he said.
As for finding solace, the actor says he always finds it in art and music. “I’m one of those creatures who speaks through art. I just always want to do it. If I don’t, I die somehow.”
“Music fills me with so much joy,” he continued. “I think joy is a newer discovery later in life. I was always moving with the current, gliding in one way or another. I think I spent years with low-grade depression, and it wasn’t until I came to terms with it, trying to embrace all aspects of myself — beauty and ugliness — that I was able to capture those moments of joy.
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