for any Six Feet Under fans out there, my friend just texted me "he looks like he was found decomposing at the bottom of a well and Rico did the best job he could"
But he lives in his ex wife's basement or garage, just until he gets on his feet. The kids avoid him at all cost because he wants to hang out with their friends.
These old man movie stars keep showing us how pretentious they are. The flowery language, the art, the guitars. It’s a veneer, a front to present to the public. I don’t think they’ve realized we see through it now.
Why do all these men try to sound super smart and profound and deep and really seem to believe they have more knowledge than anyone else?? So pretentious
genuinely tho, it's so disturbing to me how abusive men will learn the vocabulary associated with 'good communication' and 'accountability' and utilize it to justify their own shitty actions while doing nothing to actually change their behavior.
I just want to point out that this profile was written by Ottessa Moshfegh, in her own rights a minor literary celebrity. She WON the Hemingway/PEN award for her debut novel and is a NYT bestseller for 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' and this is the piece they came up with 🙃🙃
this is an unpopular opinion but I HATED that book (despite loving the premise and really wanting to enjoy it). the protagonist was so vapid and devoid of any personality. the constant harping on about how she was blonde and supermodel gorgeous and, of course, very thin. my friend and I call this type of novel “slim wrist lit” — like Sally Rooney’s protagonists, you cannot go a few pages without some reference to her delicate features or sharp clavicles or how a big coat just swallows her right up! anyway, I didn’t think the book was as profound as the author clearly did, so her writing about Brad Pitt like he’s some kind of sage intellectual doesn’t surprise me at all lol
The fact that Hollywood sold this lie to the world just to give coke-bloated assholes like these a few more years of playing love interest to women half their age while far more talented actresses see the leading roles dry up as soon as they hit 35...it's beyond infuriating.
Harrison ford looks decrepit in the newer starwars, and Carrie looks amazing. But everyone was all about how shitty she looked and said Ford looked great. I was like “bescuse me!?!?”
Y'all have to read the article- it's probably one of the more pretentious fluff pieces in recent memory. Pushing Brad as a deep, lonely and tortured artist with no push back on any of his bullshit quotes. Just ridiculous.
These GQ articles are so weird, wasn’t there the one about a journalist escaping Chris Evans’ house? Why are they all written in this melodramatic way?
Based on this article, this guy 200% has no idea who he is. He has a different personality for each decade of his life. I gotta say this “tortured, deep artist” personality is possibly my least favorite. Side note: He has truly been insufferable since his breakup from Angelina. She was all he had going for him.
These domestic abusers should just take their sob, tortured artists stories elsewhere, anywhere other than GQ. Somehow these interviews just inevitably amplified the cringiness and pretentiousness and do not help their cases at all. It did not help Depp in 2018, it did not help Pitt in 2017 (Guardian ripped him a new hole
I don't like Pitt but this cover is so bad it's genuinely shocking. He is capable of photographing well even at this age. You cannot tell me someone on the editing team did not have it in for him.
It's extraordinary to me that in this entire interview where he's wanking on about his Really Deep Thoughts, and what he loves and whatnot, he doesn't mention his children once.
I feel like many older, male movie stars (the ones that used to be called "hearthrobs")just do not get that we can see through their tortured artist shit now. This interview might have worked twenty years ago but it's absolutely laughable now, and he's not in on the joke. The author seems to be, though.
I dislike the surprised yet kinda focused eyes that a lot of people do in photos. It shows off eyes well but it makes rest of the face look idk vapid. Not just brad but a ton of celebs and influencers do it.
Jeremy strong didn’t drunkenly hit his kid and proceed to financially abuse his ex for years because she dared pick kids over him so he deserves to be clowned a lot more than Jeremy.
Is it terrible that I kinda liked the Jeremy strong interview? lol like it was pretentious but I felt like I had learned something from it. He’s just so strange
He looks like he took these photos at home, with poor lighting and a tripod, to promote a play of his own life in which he’s starring & doing his own makeup.
Not to be ageist but this feels OLD. Like I could see Timothee or another young actor being photographed like this but this feels like he is trying very hard
I'm not a huge fan of Gawker but they wrote a great piece calling out Brad for using GQ to bolster his image while ignoring the ongoing legal and media war he is waging against Angelina (and of course not mentioning anything about his 6 kids)
Wait he is rambling in emails to his interviewer while SOBER?? Wtf did he do while he was drunk? That must have been rough to listen to. At least when you're drunk texting you don't title different part of your own bullshit stories lol.
The article reads like any man who did psychedelics once and discovered empathy, and from looking at the pictures i just know he was holding back a slur when they told him they’d have to put rhinestones on his face
Maybe if I let them put really stupid makeup on me then no one will notice my botched lip filler and pony tail facelift that hasn’t had time to settle yet
Mads Mikkelson is literally the only old white man we need. I’m still so amused by him replacing Johnny Depp in whatever Harry Potter movie that was and getting so much more acclaim for his performance.
When I saw this mess of a photoshoot, my first thought was that Mads would never fumble like this. Mr Famously Handsome here can’t even take a presentable photo.
… he looks like an embalmed corpse
for any Six Feet Under fans out there, my friend just texted me "he looks like he was found decomposing at the bottom of a well and Rico did the best job he could"
Somebody at this magazine does not like him.
He looks like they dug up Ray Liotta
I genuinely can't tell if that's what the photographer is going for?
It’s supposed to be Ophelia themed haha so that was kinda the goal in a few
i was gonna say, he looks like he’s lying in a casket in that first pic 💀
As someone who works in a funeral home.. that was my first thought.
It's giving open casket.
LMFAO Armie
The second hand embrassement I felt from “i am a murderer. I am a lover.” goodness.
What a thing to say when you have been accused of domestic violence
I’m glad I was not alone in this. This is some tortured artist high school emo shit right here. At…checks notes…nearly 60 years old. Yikes.
At 60 years of age
I’m a sinner I’m a saint I do not feel ashamed
me high off of pop rock edibles in the confession booth
Not surprised by the shit that comes out of Pitt's mouth, but I can't tell if the writer is being ironic calling it 'profound.'
I puked.
"Like a man trying to camouflage himself in a wheat field." I'm sorry, WHAT?! 🤣🤣
Theresa May vibes.
Sweaty it’s called art. Read about it
right?? like is that a compliment or an insult because I genuinely can’t tell what the interviewer is going for here
It’s giving me aging divorced dad trying to impress his new (much younger) girlfriend
But it smells like moth balls and axe
Oh my god you nailed it
But he lives in his ex wife's basement or garage, just until he gets on his feet. The kids avoid him at all cost because he wants to hang out with their friends.
Summation rumination clarification defecation
Californication
These old man movie stars keep showing us how pretentious they are. The flowery language, the art, the guitars. It’s a veneer, a front to present to the public. I don’t think they’ve realized we see through it now.
I know omg he sounds so full of himself. He’s an actor ffs not the Dalai Lama and even he’s a condescending jerk.
idk if i’ve ever read a more brutal comment section on this sub and that is saying a lot 💀💀💀
never have i seen so many accurate and perfect takes in a comment section
He's earned every bit of it, though, lol.
What the actual fuck did I just read? That was the fluffiest puff piece I've ever read, it was just off the charts levels of ridiculousness...
He's in his pretentious tortured artist phase
Really putting the dead in deadbeat
Ok the director of this photoshoot was probably thinking "Gen Z are gonna eat this up" lmao
lmaooo they’re already fighting on tiktok about “if this were Harry styles y’all would eat this up!!” and maybe they would but it would still be bad
Postmortem Core
HOWWWWWW is this not the top comment
I’ve been laughing about this comment all day. I momentarily forgot about it and then suddenly burst out laughing at the supermarket checkout 😭
Lmaoooo
Why do all these men try to sound super smart and profound and deep and really seem to believe they have more knowledge than anyone else?? So pretentious
He’s the ex partner you thought was the shit but as you get over them you cringe at how basic they were and how you didn’t see that.
When you died four hours ago but have an interview to 'artistically' justify your shitty behaviour at 11.
So. . . this is a snarkspiration.
I can’t tell if he’s intentionally supposed to look like a corpse, but that cover is not doing him any favors.
He’s supposed to be
I love Anthony Starr from The Boys
Omgggg he does look like homelander
genuinely tho, it's so disturbing to me how abusive men will learn the vocabulary associated with 'good communication' and 'accountability' and utilize it to justify their own shitty actions while doing nothing to actually change their behavior.
That's part of gaslighting, right?
It’s genuinely frightening
I just want to point out that this profile was written by Ottessa Moshfegh, in her own rights a minor literary celebrity. She WON the Hemingway/PEN award for her debut novel and is a NYT bestseller for 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' and this is the piece they came up with 🙃🙃
this is an unpopular opinion but I HATED that book (despite loving the premise and really wanting to enjoy it). the protagonist was so vapid and devoid of any personality. the constant harping on about how she was blonde and supermodel gorgeous and, of course, very thin. my friend and I call this type of novel “slim wrist lit” — like Sally Rooney’s protagonists, you cannot go a few pages without some reference to her delicate features or sharp clavicles or how a big coat just swallows her right up! anyway, I didn’t think the book was as profound as the author clearly did, so her writing about Brad Pitt like he’s some kind of sage intellectual doesn’t surprise me at all lol
I was shocked to see her name on this!
I’m a murderer I’m a lover I’m a child I’m a mother
IM A SINNER - IM A SAINT
HAHA! This made me actually laugh out loud
I think they mean “After a few days after our meeting Brad Pitt sends me the most unhinged email you could possibly receive”
I want a version of the article written with this level of honesty lmao
Lol
I want them to publish that email in it’s entirety
I gasped! It's giving Prince Philip in a car
NAAAAUUUUURRRRR
Looking at him and Johnny Debt in 2022, I never want to hear that men age better than women, ever again.
they don’t age better than women they’re just allowed to age
The fact that Hollywood sold this lie to the world just to give coke-bloated assholes like these a few more years of playing love interest to women half their age while far more talented actresses see the leading roles dry up as soon as they hit 35...it's beyond infuriating.
Harrison ford looks decrepit in the newer starwars, and Carrie looks amazing. But everyone was all about how shitty she looked and said Ford looked great. I was like “bescuse me!?!?”
"Johnny Debt" 😂😂
It's like their brains slowly turn to swamps.
Ray Liotta is back bitches
I can’t believe he managed to do a magazine/interview more embarrassing than his Vogue one from a little while back.
I'm getting a Paulie Walnuts from the Sopranos vibe
STOPPP
Literally sitting in the ambulance I work on gagging trying not to laugh and have to explain this to my partner 😂😂😫
Brad wishes his was Ray
I’m screaming
I’m glad it wasn’t just me omfg
I CANTTTTTTTTTT
WE WERE ALL THINKING IT
He looks like Elon Musk's frozen corpse.
not him talking about accountability when he has been actively dodging the NOLA lawsuits 💀
Y'all have to read the article- it's probably one of the more pretentious fluff pieces in recent memory. Pushing Brad as a deep, lonely and tortured artist with no push back on any of his bullshit quotes. Just ridiculous.
These GQ articles are so weird, wasn’t there the one about a journalist escaping Chris Evans’ house? Why are they all written in this melodramatic way?
this is what happens when you don't address your issues 30 years ago folks.
It's so bad. I was a long time fan of his and I'll admit he's not the smartest bloke, but this was off the charts. He sounds unwell
The author even acts like Brad gave her amazing advice 🤮
Ophelia im so sorry...
I feel a certain type of way about this.
If aging like unpasteurized milk had a human form…
Did anyone catch the part where it says he’s sober but offers the reporter booze?
What’s interesting is that the reporter chose to put that in, knowing what readers could assume. They could've just said “something to drink”
And he quit smoking during the pandemic but there's pictures of him smoking... during the pandemic.
I didn’t think I could dislike him any more but WOW WHAT A DOUCHE
Based on this article, this guy 200% has no idea who he is. He has a different personality for each decade of his life. I gotta say this “tortured, deep artist” personality is possibly my least favorite. Side note: He has truly been insufferable since his breakup from Angelina. She was all he had going for him.
I know Angelina is somewhere in her mansion laughing at this ugly ass cover picture and interview.
He looks like homelander
YES. this reeks of him
we could probably make a recreation of this happen they love doing parodies of shit like this for the fans
Absolutely not here for this ‘how could I ever hurt my kids?’ image rehab nonsense.
“I’m a murderer” in what world is that something you should say to describe yourself… if you don’t murder ppl?
These domestic abusers should just take their sob, tortured artists stories elsewhere, anywhere other than GQ. Somehow these interviews just inevitably amplified the cringiness and pretentiousness and do not help their cases at all. It did not help Depp in 2018, it did not help Pitt in 2017 (Guardian ripped him a new hole
And the Guardian did it again!
I don't like Pitt but this cover is so bad it's genuinely shocking. He is capable of photographing well even at this age. You cannot tell me someone on the editing team did not have it in for him.
He looks so...old... is he supposed to be dying or drowning?
GQ loves a good Brad Pitt fanfic, it's a running series at this stage.
lmao he looks like he has had some terrible plastic surgery done in the first pic
GQ Team Angelina confirmed
I feel like the “Brad Pitt as Gob Bluth” picture isn’t getting enough attention…
He looks awful. Love that for him.
Imagine this being the best photo of the bunch. 😐
It's extraordinary to me that in this entire interview where he's wanking on about his Really Deep Thoughts, and what he loves and whatnot, he doesn't mention his children once.
I feel like many older, male movie stars (the ones that used to be called "hearthrobs")just do not get that we can see through their tortured artist shit now. This interview might have worked twenty years ago but it's absolutely laughable now, and he's not in on the joke. The author seems to be, though.
I dislike the surprised yet kinda focused eyes that a lot of people do in photos. It shows off eyes well but it makes rest of the face look idk vapid. Not just brad but a ton of celebs and influencers do it.
Pitt has very hooded eyes usually. Here he honestly looks like he had the same bloody eye lift surgery Renee Zellweger had before she had it reversed.
He absolutely deserves to be clowned for this article on the same level as Jeremy Strong.
Jeremy strong didn’t drunkenly hit his kid and proceed to financially abuse his ex for years because she dared pick kids over him so he deserves to be clowned a lot more than Jeremy.
Is it terrible that I kinda liked the Jeremy strong interview? lol like it was pretentious but I felt like I had learned something from it. He’s just so strange
If you add descriptions to photos posted directly to Reddit and if it’s too long for a single line that shows up
I think its an image caption
He looks like he took these photos at home, with poor lighting and a tripod, to promote a play of his own life in which he’s starring & doing his own makeup.
Right said Fred’s, I’m too sexy playing on repeat while he punches holes in the wall.
The fuck is all this
Not to be ageist but this feels OLD. Like I could see Timothee or another young actor being photographed like this but this feels like he is trying very hard
Angelina Jolie slipping the British GQ team money to make him look casket ready. It’s what he deserves.
celebrity photographers lately want to emulate david lachapelle and they all fail miserably
this article has the vibe of...I dunno, Pitt masturbating to his own photo. icky
He will NEVER be the new Bowie.
He sounds like he is channeling Louis in interview with the vampire..The visual kinda fits too
im sorry but, for a lack of better words, what the fuck is this lol. the pr stench is strong
"I am a murderer, I am a lover"
Given he has booze in the fridge which hw offered to the journalist I'm going to say it's doubtful
I nearly died from cringe just reading those quotes, my angsty teenage scribblings were not as bad. He’s just…not very smart is he?
the styling for this photoshoot doesn’t suit him… like at all.
Have celebrities always been horrifyingly cringeworthy and I’m just noticing, or is this a special case?
Yes and yes
These old white dude celebs are going full streetcar named desire
only a matter of time before he’s screaming “ANGIE!!!” outside of his ex-wife’s house 💀
I'm not a huge fan of Gawker but they wrote a great piece calling out Brad for using GQ to bolster his image while ignoring the ongoing legal and media war he is waging against Angelina (and of course not mentioning anything about his 6 kids)
it’s giving abuser who is using therapy talk to excuse their own behaviour
The interviewer and I have different definitions of “profound”
Are we sure she’s not taking the piss? Subtly, but still.
Someone is Team Angelina doing these photos
he looks....like plastic and super uncanny.
Wait he is rambling in emails to his interviewer while SOBER?? Wtf did he do while he was drunk? That must have been rough to listen to. At least when you're drunk texting you don't title different part of your own bullshit stories lol.
Kinda feels like they didn’t have enough time to photograph the real Brad Pitt so they just used his Madam Tussaud’s waxwork instead
Why is he looking like... a weird version of Ray Liotta made of wax?
Can't wait for my nightmares tonight.
WTF
I will always upvote Mazzy B
Jump scare. Trigger warning is necessary oMg
They aged him like 20 more years here 😂
he looks like he asked what's cool with the kids right now and someone told him harry styles 💀💀💀
The article reads like any man who did psychedelics once and discovered empathy, and from looking at the pictures i just know he was holding back a slur when they told him they’d have to put rhinestones on his face
I was about to say the same thing. I know a psychonaut when i see one 😂 These quotes remind me of the ones you find in a newbie's trip report.
Just left the morgue I see
Thanks, I hate it.
It’s giving undead zoolander
I’m sorry but he looks musty
Are we sure that’s Brad pitt?
Can they stop trying to make Brad Pitt happen? It's so obvious on the heels of the Depp verdict and his current litigation. Like stop
There is something very offputting about the cover. Reminds me of Homelander in The Boys. Plastic.. fake.. narcissistic… and scary?
Holy shit it’s all so cringe lmao. That fucking cover tho
Maybe if I let them put really stupid makeup on me then no one will notice my botched lip filler and pony tail facelift that hasn’t had time to settle yet
For some reason (hah) one of the trending stories on the Guardian at the moment is this takedown of Brad in GQ in 2017.
I just have to say... love all of you so very much. I really needed this thread this week, lol.
when you go with the funeral home with 3 stars on google to save a couple hundred bucks.
the trump PR person working for him gotta love Ottessa right now
Is it just me or does he look like Chelsea Handler in pic 1
I don’t understand how everyone unanimously agrees that he looks deceased but no one on the production team thought he looked horrible💀
I saw this post somewhere else and people were saying he aged like wine, love the delusion.
JUMPSCARE
I get they want him to sound deep and charming but it just sounds corny. Mads Mikkelsen does it
Mads Mikkelson is literally the only old white man we need. I’m still so amused by him replacing Johnny Depp in whatever Harry Potter movie that was and getting so much more acclaim for his performance.
Mads is what brad Pitt could never be
I GASPED - Otessa Moshfegh???? 😬
When I saw this mess of a photoshoot, my first thought was that Mads would never fumble like this. Mr Famously Handsome here can’t even take a presentable photo.
He looks like Rex Manning in that third photo (5th slide)
Do NOT do Rex Manning dirty like that!!!! Retract your statement. 😂😂😂😭
Being high didn't make this interview anymore enjoyable.
Weekend at Brad's
I am going out and buying this car wreck. At the beach with a cocktail this Will be hours of entertainment
He has had a lot of work done. He looks like Kathy Hilton, to me. The frozen face.
He sounds and looks a total mess who has no idea who he is.
Oh I do not like this man
From Tom Hiddleston to Johnny Depp and now Brad Pitt, GQ seems to be the go to magazine for male Hollywood actors to give cringey interviews.
It looks like he is trying to fill the "strange deep guy" void Johnny Depp left when he ruined himself for us.