Brad Pitt Breaks Down Finding ‘Joy’ Out of the ‘Misery’ of His Split From Angelina Jolie: ‘I Have to Walk With the Pain I Experience’

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Working on himself. Amid his ongoing drama with Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt got honest about how making art helped him deal with personal issues.During an interview with Financial Times, which was published on Wednesday, October 12, the actor, 58, opened up about working on sculptures as a Los Angeles art studio following his 2016 split from Jolie, 47.“Our mutual misery became comic,” Pitt said about collaborating with musician Nick Cave and artist Thomas Houseago on an exhibit. “And out of this misery came a flame of joy in my life.”The Bullet Train star, who had nine of his sculptures included in the Sara Hildén Art Museum, praised the way the creative medium allowed him to address his life.“It’s all about self-reflection,” he explained about one of his pieces, which depicts a gun fight. “I was looking at my own life and really concentrating on owning my own s–t.

Where was I complicit in failures in my relationships, where have I misstepped.”Pitt added: “For me, it was born out of ownership of what I call a radical inventory of self, getting really brutally honest with me, and taking account of those I may have hurt.”The Academy Award winner also offered a glimpse at how he has evolved both on and off screen, saying, “It’s just exhausting to be anything but who you are.

You have to understand, at least where I grew up, we’re more the Clint Eastwood character. You hold everything within, you’re capable, you can deal with anything, you don’t show weakness.”Pitt noted that his work as an actor continues to be shaped by his past. “I see that in my dad and the older generations of actors, and, man, it’s exhausting.