Three decades into his Hollywood career,Brad Pittstill isn’t comfortable being one of the industry’s biggest sex symbols.
On Wednesday, the 55-year-old actor walked the red carpet at The Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles for the premiere of his new film,Ad Astra —tellingEntertainment Tonightthere that he’s not quite sure what to make offans’ thirsty reactionsto hissultryGQmagazine spread.
“I don’t know what that means,” Pitt said when asked about “breaking the Internet” with his sexy shots.
Fans went crazy when photos from Pitt’s cover shoot forGQ‘s October issue hit the web on Monday.
“55 looks good on him. Lordt!” one enthusiastic Twitter user wrote.
“What is lordt?,” Pitt asked, laughing. “I am so unsavy with the ol’ Internet. But great, good, good fun!”
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“When I watch [Christian] Bale or [Tom] Hardy, I can’t do what they do,” Pitt said. “I love watching them. And I couldn’t step into that role. I want to do the same thing on my end.””
He also revealed that he wasn’t satisfied during the early days of his career,recently confession the sentimentsto hisOUATIMcostar,Leonardo DiCaprio.
“I hit this point in the late ’90s or early 2000s, where I realized I was chasing these interesting [roles],yet I was failing to live as interesting a life as I thought I could,” Pitt shared.
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Earlier this month, Pittechoed those statements in an interview withThe New York Times,saying that becoming one of Hollywood’s most in-demand heartthrobs after his breakout role in 1991’sThelma & Louisetook a toll on him.
“In the ’90s, all that attention really threw me,” Pitt said. “It was really uncomfortable for me, the cacophony of expectations and judgments. I really became a bit of a hermit and just bonged myself into oblivion.”
The actor eventually learned how to tune it all out.
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Pitt previously spoke to PEOPLE at the L.A. premiere ofOUATIM, where he weighed in on the idea of retirement.
“No, I don’t know. I don’t know. I enjoy doing other things,” he said of whether he’s thought about leaving his acting career behind. “I think that one day I’ll just wake up and organically it’ll be done. Maybe I won’t wake up and that’s why it’ll be done.”
Pitt’s new flim, Ad Astra,hits theaters Friday.
source: people.com
