April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
A scene from the upcoming war drama Fury. Picture: AP Photo Source: AP
A LINE of paparazzi wait outside Manhattan's Tribeca Grill, the famed upmarket restaurant part-owned by Robert De Niro, while Brad Pitt sits inside to chat about his upcoming WWII saga, Fury.
Despite sporting facial hair circa mid-1970s replete for his upcoming movie, By the Sea, written and directed by his multi-tasking wife (who was recently awarded the title of honorary Dame by the Queen, no less), this father-of-six, at age 50, is indelibly handsome.
And despite his unmitigated fame and success, as far as interview subjects go, he's the same person he's always been — a boy from Oklahoma, raised in rural Missouri who made good. Throughout his high wattage relationships with the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, and of course, a five-marriage to Jennifer Aniston leading up to his relationship and marriage to Angelina Jolie, he's always maintained a casual, low-maintenance demeanour.
Pitt with Logan Lerman in Fury. Source: Supplied
Q. You had to speak a lot of German in this movie. That's not easy.
A. I was sweatin' it. I have a fondness for the language; I actually find it quite beautiful, especially when spoken softly. It's just got a beautiful music to it for me. But I want to get it right.
Q. Like your role in Inglourious Basterds, you were there killing Nazis. Did you visit the Museum of Tolerance and places like that to get the feel of the time and of the situation?
A. I have been. We had the great opportunity to sit down with a lot of veterans who were in the war and experienced it, from Battle of the Bulge to lesser-known battles. And our tanks were so superior to the Panzer division and they could punch right through our tanks, but we threw numbers at them, which means a lot of people were killed, these were death traps and a lot of people burned up in them and died horrifically. So by the end of the war, we were throwing kids in, which is the Logan Lerman character, who had no experience. But we did have numbers, and we did have an amazing engineering team behind that would pull them back in, patch them back together and send them back out. And I got so much from the veterans who were very giving in sharing their stories, and our goal was to get it right for them.
Now a married couple, the pair will soon go head to head in the cinemas. Picture: Getty Images Source: Getty Images
Q. You're going to be competing with Angelina in this awards season with her WWII film, Unbroken.
A. She made an incredible movie; it's big and her film is about the triumph of the human spirit against tremendous odds. I see the films as distinctly different, I see ours more of a day in the life of a family, three and a half years into war, that have been through Africa, France, Belgium, and now they are in Germany. And again, hers is something different. Hers is Louis Zamperini, this boy who came from nothing and against really great odds and it's a triumph of the human spirit and it's very inspiring in that way. But we are not pitted against each other and I hope it gets everything ... It's worth seeing.
Q. When you look back on your youth, doing commercials in Japan for Levis jeans — what do you remember about that time?
A. Listen, I had never been on a plane until I was 24, 25, so everywhere I got to travel to, whether it was the Netherlands or whether it was Tokyo, it was all such an experience, so exciting for me, so at that time, I remember just soaking in everything I could see and now what we try to do is to indulge in the country as a family, so when we get to go, we get to carve out days where we experience more of the culture and the country.
Q. You're living in France much of the time. How is your French these days? And why France?
A. My French is pretty good. And the first idea is to get our kids to a place where it's outside of all that, that they can just be kids and explore and we also wanted everyone to learn another language and the kids just started with French and they are all speaking French, so they expand their worldview. And we wanted a European base, because we want to be able to get to Africa and Asia the same trip. But the idea was to get a European base to travel to some of the other areas, and we want the kids to see where Angie has work.
At 50, still a credible action hero. Source: AP
Q. And why the South of France?
A. We go by feeling, we go by instinct and it just felt right. It just felt right. And I think my French is pretty good. My writer/director put a lot of French in the film we are doing now ... My writer/director being my wife. [laughs] And, I think it's coming, but I am determined, I am determined to learn it.
Q. Now that you're 50, when you think about going back to the age of 25 and on the plane for the first time, what did you imagine you'd be doing at the grand old age of 50? Are you now as confident as you will ever be?
A. Yeah, I am pretty clear about how I want to live my life and what I want from my kids and my family and my wife and that determines everything, and I have never been one of those guys who thinks about the five-year plan and the 10-year plan; I have always gone by instinct and have great confidence in that instinct, and developed that radar of what feels right, what doesn't feel right, and that's been my guide.
Pitt in a scene from Fury. Source: AP
Q. Are you comfortable in the role of leader of the platoon? Shia LaBeouf has said that they all wanted to get your attention.
A. Well that was kind of the dynamic of the family: us being together, going to boot camp, sparring together ... the architecture of a boot camp, of a training session for a soldier, is brilliantly laid out and it tears you down, it forces you to work together, to bond together, to solve a problem, it tears you down again and it builds you up, psychologically, it's a very interesting structure. It's very cool.
Q. How do you feel being 12 years older than your wife? How is that dynamic?
A. Eleven and a half, alright? Let's get the record right! But probably the same age, maturity-wise. That's the way it works. But anyone who is there, it doesn't feel any different, does it? It's great. And I have said this before but I will take wisdom over youth any day.
Q. Being in the tank for so long in this very close environment, what thoughts went through your head?
A. You know, it was an almost womblike sense and experience in it and there's some days I would go in the morning and I wouldn't come out until the end of the day. And had the lunch brought up there and some days were like that. I love my tank!
Q. With everything you've accomplished, what goals do you have yet to achieve?
A. It's just improving; improving on themes, film, fatherhood, as a husband, partner ... we spend so much of our life trying to shake our own personal haunts and I like that about getting older and I still have design aspirations and things that I want to mess around with.
This behind-the-scenes featurette from FURY takes a look at the father-son relationship that develops between Brad Pitts Wardaddy and Logan Lermans Norman, as Norman is inducted into a 4-year strong tank crew and has to learn the hard lessons of war.
Q. How have you grown as an actor since the beginning of your career?
A. Craft. With time you get to develop craft and it's my worry for the younger guys because they are eating up so much, that they are used up so quickly before they are able to develop craft and I mean there are guys who are smart and making their way through it and Shia is certainly one of them and Logan is one of them, but it's craft. And really learning and understanding tone because in a scene, a film, is all about tone. What is the tone of that scene? And that's the puzzle we are always solving, and that's my interest in still being in front of the camera and solving that puzzle, it's tone.
Q. One of your co-stars Jon Berenthal, who is in Walking Dead and you did World War Z — did you do much zombie comparisons?
A. Yeah, we certainly had a laugh for our tolerance for zombies. But yes, there is one in the works and we will see if we figure it out, no promises yet, but we are trying and I love those boys, I love Berenthal, he's that guy on set that has got everyone's back and he's a beautiful guy and I hope he gets immense opportunities.
Q. On a lighter note. Congrats on your wedding. The world waited a long time for that.
A. Yeah, us too. [laughs]
Fury is in Australian cinemas from October 23.
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