He’s all that

Brad Pitt feels happier when he is working behind the scenes.


Afp February 10, 2012

LOS ANGELES:


Hollywood actor Brad Pitt is not just one of America’s most bankable film stars; he is also a sought after and influential movie producer too. Pitt, 48, starred in the critically acclaimed Moneyball, which earned him a best actor Oscar nomination but these days, it is Pitt’s work as a producer that is closest to his heart. The actor, who says he is a “perfectionist” when it comes to his work, is on a mission to make sure that quality films, and not just mindless trifles, get made in Hollywood.


Pitt enjoys the entrepreneurial tasks that a producer has to manage like hiring the director, overseeing the budget, coordinating the film’s post-production and other indispensable tasks because it gives him a feeling of being in control. “Any movie you see here today wouldn’t have made it to the screen, unless you had someone with the belief that this topic would make a good movie. Each one of the movies you see on your screens took some heavy lifting,” explains Pitt. “That’s why I enjoy the production side so much,” he adds. His work on the production side of the film business had been made possible via his Plan B Entertainment film production company.

Over the years he has produced some two dozen films, including Running with Scissors, The Year of the Dog and the Kick-Ass series, without a commercial Hollywood aesthetic and that might never have been made if it was not for his involvement. Another Plan B project was The Tree of Life (2011), which earned Pitt a nomination in the Best Actor category.

Meanwhile Jolie, 36, has also been branching out from acting, with her directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey. As for trying his own hand at directing in the future, Pitt has ruled it out. “It’s too much. I’m too much of a perfectionist,” he says.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 10th, 2012.

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