14 DAY TRIAL // Being a star can sometimes be too much – this is something fans have heard countless times on various occasions and, for all the world knows, this could be the truth. Brad Pitt is the latest celebrity to tell reporters that he could easily do without being who he is, meaning without the media and doing interviews.
Speaking with Newsweek on the occasion of the many nominalizations that his most recent movie, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” got at this year’s edition of the Academy Awards, Pitt said that the fame game was actually a downside to being an actor.
“This publicity machine is out of control. It’s everything we didn’t sign up for. There’s this whole other entity that you get sucked into. You have to go and sell your wares.” Brad Pitt revealed, referring to the media tours he had to embark on every time he made a new movie and, which, according to him, was actually quite a burdensome thing.
As for always having to answer questions on his private life, Brad stated that this was perhaps the toughest thing he ever had to face on such promo tours. “Somehow you’re not supporting your film if you don’t get out on a show and talk about your personal life. It has nothing to do with why I do this.” the actor told Newsweek. In all fairness, as several media outlets have already pointed out, each time that either him or Angelina put out a new film, they do have to take a lot of personal questions.
Then again, as Frank Navarre, founder of the biggest US paparazzi agency, X17, points out, it’s Brad himself who’s keeping the wheels of the press machine in motion. He is far from being a private actor, Navarre claims, he is a calculated one who takes the celebrity vs. media thing very seriously. Fame for him is “not a game – it’s war,” if we’re to believe Navarre. As for not liking to have his personal life in all the tabloids, that’s also just acting on Brad’s behalf, the X17 man also says.
“Is that why Brad shot and published those intimate family photos of Angelina and the kids for W magazine last year? And sold Knox and Vivienne’s baby photos to a major magazine just two weeks after their birth? I mean, if it was Leonardo Dicaprio making these claims, we’d be inclined to believe him, but there’s something a little off here...” Navarre writes on his website.