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Brad Pitt Talks to Director RaMell Ross About How His Basketball Career Unexpectedly Influenced ‘Nickel Boys’

BP Media / BP Press / plan b
February 4, 2025

Read an excerpt of the pair’s conversation below and watch the full video, an IndieWire exclusive, right here.

Brad Pitt: Thanks so much, man, for taking time out to talk about “Nickel Boys.”

RaMell Ross: Pleasure is mine, man. Pleasure is mine.

I haven’t seen anything like it. It’s so original. And I have some questions.

I’d love to field them. I’d love to field them.

Well, first starting with “The Nickel Boys,” it’s based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name. Tell me about the pressure, the responsibility, the joy of interpreting this, what you co-wrote with Joslyn Barnes.

Yeah, it’s a lot of pressure, but I think the real pressure, honestly, was not messing it up to the point where this opportunity wouldn’t be afforded to others. I think it’s pretty unprecedented that companies like yours, and this isn’t a promo for Plan B, but you guys support some pretty wild ideas, like how do you make a film that is so reflexive, but also in conversation with Black visuality and also supporting Colson’s narrative and elevating the Dozier School boys to the annals of film? These are big ideas. So the pressure was, I think, to satisfy the concept, to give life.

How Wolfs director staged a Brad Pitt, George Clooney movie reunion

BP Gallery / BP Press / Wolfs
September 23, 2024

Jon Watts is trading in spiders for animals of a different kind.

The director of the Tom Holland-led Spider-Man trilogy wrote and directed the action-comedy Wolfs (in select theaters Sep. 20; on Apple TV+ Sep. 27), about two fixers — played by George Clooney and Brad Pitt — who are brought in to help clean up a big crime involving Margaret (Amy Ryan), a New York D.A., late one night. The problem is, they don’t work with each other, nor did they expect the other to be there, but circumstances now dictate that these two lone wolves work together, like it or not, to get the job done.

The story plays out over the course of one night — one very cold winter night in NYC. “That was so stupid of me,” Watts tells Entertainment Weekly, laughing about the predicament he created. “I wrote the movie, I could have written it anywhere. I could have written it at any time of year. I chose New York at night.”

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Edelweiss Iceland Biking Trip

BP Gallery / BP Press
September 15, 2024

Iceland, a fascinating island, a country full of contrasts. Created by the power of mighty volcanoes, polished by the ice of great glaciers and the elements. A country sparsely populated, almost lonely, but nevertheless one of the most progressive in Europe. A country with a fascinating nature that you won’t find anywhere else. Iceland sometimes doesn’t make it easy to be discovered. Traveling in Iceland is always a struggle with the elements. Nevertheless, the island is a dream destination for many motorcyclists. Especially for those who like to travel off the beaten track. Iceland offers countless opportunities to experience real adventures on tracks of varying difficulty. Our friends Brad and Flea were also up for this adventure. This is the story of our adventure.

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GQ

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August 13, 2024

It is the laugh you hear first. Heh heh heh heh heh. Unhurried. Like he’s got all the time in the world to do it. Some of the buildings here at Château Miraval, where Brad Pitt is just now tumbling out from wherever he spent the night, cup of coffee in hand, are nearly 200 years old, and the laugh rings off the stonework: heh heh heh heh heh. It rings through the terraces of olive trees. It ruffles the stone pots of lavender and rosemary. It sends the literal butterflies alighting on literal pink blossoms into the air, up towards the Provençal sky, which is the same soft blue as it was when Matisse painted it. It echoes off the lake and the vineyards and the ancient chapel and the black Mercedes convertible, top down, that is now arriving, with George Clooney at the wheel. Black sunglasses. Black polo. Loafers. When he sees Pitt, he yells: Brother! And then you hear the laugh again: heh heh heh heh heh.

Read more. GQ – The September issue (US, France, UK).

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Check out the great behind the scenes video.

WWD

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January 27, 2023

“It’s almost an affliction, it’s got to be quality,” Brad Pitt told WWD of his approach to God’s True Cashmere, the feel-good luxury label he cofounded with his friend and holistic healer, Sat Hari.

The brand’s gender-neutral, two-pocket cashmere work shirts in solids and tartans, with handcrafted snap buttons made from healing stones like emeralds for health and wealth; lapis lazuli for wisdom and truth, and labradorite for balance and protection are the latest cult casual-luxe item to come out of Los Angeles.

Soft like a hug (a hug from Brad Pitt, no less), the $2,000-plus shirts are being snapped up by in-the-know shoppers in stores from Serenella in Boston to Boon the Shop in Seoul.

Four years in, God’s True Cashmere is in growth mode, with a new e-commerce site, plans to launch more styles and a push to expand wholesale, with a showroom in Paris during the women’s ready-to-wear season March 3 to 6.

“We want the shirts to be the face of the brand,” Pitt said, explaining his aim to stay in the background in his business ventures, which include Le Domaine skin care and the Miraval wine label.