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For Brad Pitt, the Cannes Film Festival is almost a perennial rite of spring. He’s been there four of the past five years, either with his own films (Ocean’s Thirteen, Inglourious Basterds) or accompanying his partner Angelina Jolie (for Changeling). But this year, as the star and one of the producers of Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, Pitt was also the impromptu spokesman for the absent, famously shy writer-director. The film, which won Cannes’ highest accolade, the Palme d’Or, features what many have called Pitt’s finest, boldest performance, as the severe father of three young boys in suburban Texas in the 1950s.

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And along with the portrait session posted below came a lovely new interview which was of course added to BP Press.

You won’t catch Brad Pitt doing fatherhood in a small way, on screen or in his real family life with Angelina Jolie.

In Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life,” which premiered this week at the Cannes Film Festival, Pitt plays a father of three in a drama that deals with the biggest of questions about our place in the cosmos.

In his home life, Pitt and Jolie are parents of six — three biological children, three adopted. For Pitt, who was childless into his 40s after his marriage with Jennifer Aniston broke up, it all happened in just a few years.

“I know it seems extreme from the outside, but I’ve always kind of operated this way. When I know, I know, and why mess around?” Pitt, 47, said in an interview.

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With a huge thanks to our SB Staff member Natlc, I was able to add a perfect translation of Brad’s most recent interview with studio Cine Live (France) magazine to BP Press.

An afternoon with Brad Pitt
To mark the much anticipated release of The Tree of Life, the new Terrace Malick film odyssey, we find Brad Pitt in Los Angeles for an unprecedented meeting for the film which he is the lead actor and co-producer. When a superstar speaks about cinema and himself, with such kindness and humility, you know it will be great.

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Thanks to Dana, I added the translation of the latest interview with Brad by Studio Cine Live. It’s an auto translation so not flawless, perhaps someone could review it please? My french sucks a lil.

An afternoon with Brad Pitt
On the occasion of the highly anticipated The Tree of Life, the new Terrence Malick’s cinematic odyssey, we find Brad Pitt in Los Angeles for an unprecedented meeting on this film which he is the lead actor and co-producer, when a superstar and talks about cinema itself, with a kindness and humility that knows that with the great.

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