Hunk Brad Pitt calls his marriage to actress Jennifer Aniston “the merger” in a revealing interview to be published this week. The 37-year-old star says the couple is blissfully happy, but admits that being in the limelight doesn’t leave them room to “have our struggles”.
“The thing with our marriage is that there was an opening in the Hollywood-couple slot, and unfortunately, we’ve fallen into it, which I don’t like very much,” he says. “It doesn’t leave us room to be human, to make our mistakes.”
Brad wed the Friends beauty in a July 2000 cliffside ceremony and hopes to start a family soon. “Anything that’s going to take the focus off myself, I welcome,” he told Hollywood bible Vanity Fair.
The one-time Oscar nominee says he has big plans for the future but reckons he’s got just “five strong years, maybe seven” left on the Tinseltown A-list. “On one hand, I’m hitting my stride now. On the other hand, I’ll tell you truthfully, I’m completely bored with myself in films. I am still at a viable age, but I’m hitting the cusp.” Perhaps veteran actor-director Robert Redford, Brad’s 64-year-old co-star in the upcoming Spy Game, may have some career advice for his protégé who is looking to branch out.
“I have other interests that I want to pursue that mean more to me,” says Brad. “I think there’s room to go away from it for a while and then you can come back and reinvent.”
The Oklahoma native admits to attending counseling over the last year and a half, and while he remains mum on exactly what drove him to seek professional help, he says he is now more comfortable talking about his feelings. “I crashed and burned, so I wanted to understand how I operate… I came from a place where you had to be crazy to go to a crazy doctor,” he says.
Brad insists he’s a “normal guy”, though even he admits to falling into the celebrity trap at times. “We are treated as special,” says the Snatch star. “We get away with things that other people can’t. And you start to believe the lie that you are special, that you’re better than other people. You start demanding that kind of treatment. Most of the time I fight it… but at times I succumb to it.”
Spy Game opens in the US on November 21 before hitting UK screens on the 23rd.
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