Interview: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
IGN Film Force braves paparazzi and high security to talk to the Smiths.
by Jeff Otto
June 9, 2005 - I've interviewed big stars before. Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and even most of the cast of Ocean's 12. I've also interviewed Jolie a few times before. Apparently, nothing draws out the paparazzi, the high security, and the nervous, walking-on-eggshells publicists as much as two major stars appearing in one place shortly after a tabloid-fueled rumor scandal. IGN FilmForce was among a very select group of domestic journalists admitted to a press event earlier this week for Mr. and Mrs. Smith at the high class Shutters hotel on the beach in Santa Monica. The hotel is, in fact, just down the street from my apartment, so for once I got to enjoy the luxury of simply walking down the street for the interview. As I neared the hotel, I begin to notice something was a little different. Blocks from the hotel, paparazzi were ready and armed with large cameras weighted down by even larger telephoto lenses and their trademark photographer vests, pockets busting at the seems with more film, different lenses, filters and probably little room left over for the wads of cash they will likely receive for a candid picture of Ms. Jolie, Mr. Pitt or the holy grail – a picture of them together. Personally, I don't care about the gossip. Lucky for me, FilmForce doesn't care about that kind of stuff and, unlike most of the international press attending the interview, I actually only came to talk about the movie. Arriving at the hotel, fancy cars were pulling up in droves. Limos with darkened windows waited on the outskirts of the parking lot. Though I expected to be stopped immediately and asked my intentions upon entering the hotel, no one said a word. I walked right in and headed downstairs to the conference room where the interview was to happen. There, I found the measures I was expecting: A huge line of journalists waiting to enter the room. The line moved at a crawl. Nearly an hour passed before I finally arrived at the press check-in table. The hold-up was resulting from a pair of "agreements" from Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt's publicity teams, which essentially stated that we were not allowed to ask personal questions and that, should we choose to do so, the actors may end the interview, our tapes would be confiscated and we would be sentenced to 20 years in prison. Okay, I made that last one up.- 20th Century Fox
So after an hour-long line and a 30-minute wait, the interview finally began a scant one hour and six minutes after its scheduled start time. Considering the general rule of "Hollywood time" and the surrounding chaos, that actually wasn't too bad.
Q: What attributes do you think you have to defend yourself in an attack if you were an assassin? BRAD PITT: Well, again the assassin thing is secondary to me, because the movie plays so much more on the level of relationships and that was sort of just the backdrop or a metaphor or I can't think of the word. But, having said that. She's a damn good shot. I'm a damn good shot as well. ANGELINA JOLIE: I'd say the same. What makes a good assassin? Should I know the answer to that? Obviously, it's a film and it's our metaphor for marriage and it's kind of wild, crazy one, but I think it's a good one. And I think what makes a good assassin, I don't know. But at the end of the day it is interesting to see two people have to learn how to be a team. And I think that's the interesting thing about the film. We are both very good with weapons.PITT: And also the idea about assassins, it's sort of an 80's concept about film. In this thing, it's kind of the thing we'd use for a husband and wife who wanted to literally kill each other. So instead of killing themselves with words or psychologically, this time we're gonna literally put a gun in their hands.Q: Brad, how did you feel fighting a woman? PITT: I felt good. I felt very good. [laughs] I took some shots… But again, the thing is not to be taken literally. We could go as far as we wanted to go and it's definitely one of the best sequences of the film. It became representative of how we take each other out in some form or another.
IGN Film Force braves paparazzi and high security to talk to the Smiths.
by Jeff Otto
June 9, 2005 - I've interviewed big stars before. Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and even most of the cast of Ocean's 12. I've also interviewed Jolie a few times before. Apparently, nothing draws out the paparazzi, the high security, and the nervous, walking-on-eggshells publicists as much as two major stars appearing in one place shortly after a tabloid-fueled rumor scandal. IGN FilmForce was among a very select group of domestic journalists admitted to a press event earlier this week for Mr. and Mrs. Smith at the high class Shutters hotel on the beach in Santa Monica. The hotel is, in fact, just down the street from my apartment, so for once I got to enjoy the luxury of simply walking down the street for the interview. As I neared the hotel, I begin to notice something was a little different. Blocks from the hotel, paparazzi were ready and armed with large cameras weighted down by even larger telephoto lenses and their trademark photographer vests, pockets busting at the seems with more film, different lenses, filters and probably little room left over for the wads of cash they will likely receive for a candid picture of Ms. Jolie, Mr. Pitt or the holy grail – a picture of them together. Personally, I don't care about the gossip. Lucky for me, FilmForce doesn't care about that kind of stuff and, unlike most of the international press attending the interview, I actually only came to talk about the movie. Arriving at the hotel, fancy cars were pulling up in droves. Limos with darkened windows waited on the outskirts of the parking lot. Though I expected to be stopped immediately and asked my intentions upon entering the hotel, no one said a word. I walked right in and headed downstairs to the conference room where the interview was to happen. There, I found the measures I was expecting: A huge line of journalists waiting to enter the room. The line moved at a crawl. Nearly an hour passed before I finally arrived at the press check-in table. The hold-up was resulting from a pair of "agreements" from Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt's publicity teams, which essentially stated that we were not allowed to ask personal questions and that, should we choose to do so, the actors may end the interview, our tapes would be confiscated and we would be sentenced to 20 years in prison. Okay, I made that last one up.- 20th Century Fox
So after an hour-long line and a 30-minute wait, the interview finally began a scant one hour and six minutes after its scheduled start time. Considering the general rule of "Hollywood time" and the surrounding chaos, that actually wasn't too bad.
Q: What attributes do you think you have to defend yourself in an attack if you were an assassin? BRAD PITT: Well, again the assassin thing is secondary to me, because the movie plays so much more on the level of relationships and that was sort of just the backdrop or a metaphor or I can't think of the word. But, having said that. She's a damn good shot. I'm a damn good shot as well. ANGELINA JOLIE: I'd say the same. What makes a good assassin? Should I know the answer to that? Obviously, it's a film and it's our metaphor for marriage and it's kind of wild, crazy one, but I think it's a good one. And I think what makes a good assassin, I don't know. But at the end of the day it is interesting to see two people have to learn how to be a team. And I think that's the interesting thing about the film. We are both very good with weapons.PITT: And also the idea about assassins, it's sort of an 80's concept about film. In this thing, it's kind of the thing we'd use for a husband and wife who wanted to literally kill each other. So instead of killing themselves with words or psychologically, this time we're gonna literally put a gun in their hands.Q: Brad, how did you feel fighting a woman? PITT: I felt good. I felt very good. [laughs] I took some shots… But again, the thing is not to be taken literally. We could go as far as we wanted to go and it's definitely one of the best sequences of the film. It became representative of how we take each other out in some form or another.
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