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01-07-2009, 07:38 AM
UPDATE: Brad Pitt Denies "Dastardly Affair" With Angelina Jolie
Wednesday January 7, 2009
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In February's W magazine, Brad Pitt defends Angelina Jolie, insisting she didn't bust up his marriage to Jennifer Aniston.
Aniston had previously told Vogue that she thought it was "uncool" of Jolie to tell The New York Times that she fell in love with Pitt while filming 2005's Mr. and Mrs. Smith -- when Aniston was still wed the actor.
But Pitt says, "What people don't understand is that we filmed for a year. We were still filming after Jen and I split up.
"Even then it doesn't mean that there was some kind of dastardly affair. There wasn't," he says in the magazine's annual "A-list" issue. "I'm very proud of the way that it was handled. It was respectful. [The film] will mean something to our kids. It will, that's all."
(Of those controversial shots he took of Jolie apparently breastfeeding last year, he said, "We have fun working together; these things bring you closer. It’s really sexy to see your loved one through the lens. He said he also "went much further" photographing her, but "I didn’t show those [pictures].")
Meanwhile, Pitt says he is still on friendly terms with Aniston.
"Listen, man, Jen is a sweetheart," Pitt says. "I think she got dragged into that one [saying Jolie was "uncool"], and then there's a second round to all that Angie versus Jen. It's so created.
"We still check in with each other," he continues. "She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don't see how there cannot be [that]. That's life, man. That's life."
Pitt also sounds off on his family, thanking them for helping him give up a bad habit.
"I quit smoking. That was the only thing that got me to quit," he says. "That was it. Done.”
And while he and Jolie have yet to wed, Pitt goes on to say in the interview that all people should be allowed to tie the knot.
“People who are against gay marriage do not understand the very freedoms that they themselves are enjoying," says the actor, who was famously against the anti-gay marriage initiative Proposition 8. "What if someone said, 'Sorry, no Christianity here? No Judaism. Certainly no Mormons.'
"No one would stand for that, and I wouldn't allow anyone to say that either," says Pitt. "I'd fight them in the same way."
Wednesday January 7, 2009
Us weekly daily newsletter
In February's W magazine, Brad Pitt defends Angelina Jolie, insisting she didn't bust up his marriage to Jennifer Aniston.
Aniston had previously told Vogue that she thought it was "uncool" of Jolie to tell The New York Times that she fell in love with Pitt while filming 2005's Mr. and Mrs. Smith -- when Aniston was still wed the actor.
But Pitt says, "What people don't understand is that we filmed for a year. We were still filming after Jen and I split up.
"Even then it doesn't mean that there was some kind of dastardly affair. There wasn't," he says in the magazine's annual "A-list" issue. "I'm very proud of the way that it was handled. It was respectful. [The film] will mean something to our kids. It will, that's all."
(Of those controversial shots he took of Jolie apparently breastfeeding last year, he said, "We have fun working together; these things bring you closer. It’s really sexy to see your loved one through the lens. He said he also "went much further" photographing her, but "I didn’t show those [pictures].")
Meanwhile, Pitt says he is still on friendly terms with Aniston.
"Listen, man, Jen is a sweetheart," Pitt says. "I think she got dragged into that one [saying Jolie was "uncool"], and then there's a second round to all that Angie versus Jen. It's so created.
"We still check in with each other," he continues. "She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don't see how there cannot be [that]. That's life, man. That's life."
Pitt also sounds off on his family, thanking them for helping him give up a bad habit.
"I quit smoking. That was the only thing that got me to quit," he says. "That was it. Done.”
And while he and Jolie have yet to wed, Pitt goes on to say in the interview that all people should be allowed to tie the knot.
“People who are against gay marriage do not understand the very freedoms that they themselves are enjoying," says the actor, who was famously against the anti-gay marriage initiative Proposition 8. "What if someone said, 'Sorry, no Christianity here? No Judaism. Certainly no Mormons.'
"No one would stand for that, and I wouldn't allow anyone to say that either," says Pitt. "I'd fight them in the same way."