Brad Pitt is one of those stars that make other celebrities swoon.
Such was the case at the Monday premiere of Pitt’s latest film Inglourious Basterds, opening Aug. 21.After arriving hand-in-hand with partner Angelina Jolie, Pitt blushed and waved off the adoration of other celebrities, even as Camryn Manheim snapped a few quick shots of him to send to friends.
“Aw, we all kind of know the game,” Pitt said shyly and with a nervous laugh, in reference to the other celebrities fawning over him.
In the film, Pitt plays anything but shy.
“I am a bit of a badass,” he says of his fast-talking, southern character, 1st Lt. Aldo Raine. “It’s a Quentin Tarantino movie, and badass just comes with the name Quentin Tarantino.”
There’s plenty of blood shed in the film that follows a group of American Jewish soldiers who are led by Pitt, and have one mission: kill as many Nazis as they can.
As for the film shoot, Pitt said, “It was outrageous. We had a great international cast. What made this film is that everyone was speaking in their own native languages, which is a bit of a reality that you don’t normally expect. It paid off so well.”
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Brad Pitt Brought Home Inglourious Spirit
Brad Pitt had no trouble getting into the good ol’ boy spirit of his WWII Tennessee hillbilly lieutenant screen character at Monday night’s Hollywood premiere of director Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
Asked at Grauman’s Chinese Theater if he ever took his role home and do it for his kids, Pitt– who plays Aldo “The Apache” Raine, leader of a troop of eight against the Nazis – told PEOPLE: “I did! I’d tell those little ‘basterds’ to get out there and start scalpin’!”
The proud papa noted that his children proved to be quick studies, especially the eldest, son Maddox, 8. He “picked it up a little, the accent, and it was pretty funny,” said Pitt. “He got pretty good, actually.”
As for the raucous after-hours spirit while making the movie, which also stars Eli Roth (as Staff Sergeant Donny Donowitz) and Til Schweiger (as German psychopath Hugo Stiglitz) – it was, well, spirited, often being fueled by six packs and even 12 packs.
“Oh,” Pitt joked, laughing, “I’m just a drunk!”
