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Post by Ginger on Sept 18, 2015 11:38:12 GMT -4
He seemed to date a lot of co-stars back in the day. I didn't realize he and Thandie hooked up- but her part in IwtV was so brief and once Se7en hit the screens the tabloids were all about Brad n Gwen 4 EVAH!! (except not). Because my high school crush on Brad Pitt hit right when Legends of the Fall & Interview with the Vampire came out in 1994, I know that timeline is a little off because he was already dating Fishstick by early '95. He went solo to the Golden Globes that year because they weren't ready to be public. I also know that they left a few women off of the list. My head is full of incredibly important information. Despite a decade of tabloid saturation of Brad and Jen, after looking at that list it's hard to believe they were married. His type is all over the place, but she sticks out to me as much more homey and conventional than the rest (and a lot less bitchy than several of them). On paper, that seems like it should have been a good thing, marriage-wise. Who would have thought he and crazy Angelina would be together for 11 years so far? But I think he's got a need for excitement in his relationships.
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Post by GirlyGhoul on Sept 18, 2015 12:25:41 GMT -4
Yeah, Brad and Jen never gelled for me- Not that I really cared one way or the other. But I always thought it was odd that they seemed to have been set up by their agents and I didn't see any real sparks beyond that they looked pretty on paper. And he was the big movie hottie at the time while she was the TV hottie and haircut Queen.
I remember she hosted SNL soon after the marriage (or at least engagement) and they did a lame skit about Fight Club where she and a bunch of the women started a Fight Club because they couldn't figure out what the big deal was. It struck me as sad that already they were playing on her association with Brad rather than anything they could have riffed off Jen's own career (Plus the skit was just lame- ha ha fake punching- with girls! ha ha!) And then all their interviews were so much about how different they were. Like she didn't seem all that into his architecture projects- and he wanted kids- BAD, while she was not there at that point in her life.
Brad and Ang just seem to click better. And they both seem happy with the steady amount of kids flowing through their household and into each other's projects. Now, they could announce their divorce tomorrow and I wouldn't blink twice only at this point nothing in Hollywood shocks or surprises me anymore. But yeah, of all the pics of all the women in and out of Brad's life Angelina seems the most solid. That could be because they are one another's perfect true loves. That could be because they'd both reached maturity together and were ready to settle down for keeps. Or it could very well be that the 80's and 90's hair in all of Brad's early pics is distracting me too much to see any real match with any of the other women. That's a very big possibility.
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Post by deeconsistent on Sept 18, 2015 12:47:33 GMT -4
Brad and Ang just seem to click better. Obviously this is a great example of YMMV, but Angie and Brad seem like the oddest couple to me. If they were regular people versions of themselves and in my friend circle, I'd constantly be marveling at how mismatched they seem. I don't know if she's a genius, but he seems dumb as a rock. She seems too womanly(?) for him. Their careers were in different places, but Jennifer seemed like the female version of him to me. That's not to say that Brad and Angie can't or don't honestly love each other or that Jen and Brad should still be together. I remember when the rumors started of the two of them hooking up, I just thought it sounded so ridiculous.
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Post by Baby Fish Mouth on Sept 18, 2015 14:45:22 GMT -4
Angie obviously has a weirder past than Brad, but they met each other at a stage in life when both were ready for a lot of kids. I think Angie would have been way too unconventional for him if they had met earlier.
ETA: I too had a crush on Brad during the long-haired Interview With the Vampire/Legends of the Fall era. It's funny to see pictures of him then.
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Post by Ladybug on Sept 18, 2015 16:11:53 GMT -4
Legends of the Fall and A River Runs Through It did it for me. I could watch that man brood and fly fish all damn day.
Almost 20 years later, and given all we know know about them, the one that puzzles me the most is Gwyneth. I just don't know what he saw in her, then moved on to Jennifer and Angie. They all seem soooo different. At the time, B & G seemed to make perfect sense but I would never put current Brad and current Gwyneth together.
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Post by luminosa on Sept 18, 2015 17:44:18 GMT -4
Maybe brad is similar to me in the sense that when I date someone, and it doesn't work out, I kind of go out of my way to go for someone that is different than my previous boyfriend. To me, I just think- give something new a try, because the previous wasn't working.
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Post by Auroranorth on Sept 18, 2015 18:27:28 GMT -4
He seems like the kind of person who morphs to be what their partner wants, and he's finally found the niche that feels right to him.
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Post by greekone on Sept 18, 2015 18:55:46 GMT -4
One thing is sure, when Brad Pitt is done with a relationship, he is done. The only ex I've heard him talk about is Jen and that's probably because they were married. As far as Paltrow goes, he's pretty baffled to this day of what he saw in her. He does not like her at all and had zero interest in trying to salvage any type of friendship with her once he dumped her.
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Post by technicolor on Sept 19, 2015 2:27:49 GMT -4
I think Brad and Angelina may seem a bit baffling because it's sort of going against classical gender norms? At least their public personas. She's this wild child and he's steady, reliable guy. Usually it's "good woman tames bad boy and turns him into respectable husband and father". Here it's kind of the reverse? At least the narrative looks like that, and that might also foster some of this long-held resentment from the tabloid press in particular. Of course no one knows how these people actually are, how their relationships work etc., but the outward appearance might be alienating for a certain audience?
What I find interesting about them is this: IMO she's the much more interesting celebrity and he's got the more interesting movie career as both actor and producer. Which probably reflects where both their main interests lie: She's doing her charities and projects and often her movies are also driven by this "well-intentioned, but overly serious" motivation. He seems sincere enough in his charity efforts as well, but his choice of movies is much more interesting and varied and obviously his main focus. So in that sense they are quite individual and not wrapped up too much in each other.
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Post by lea1977 on Sept 19, 2015 7:48:37 GMT -4
I have just never found them interesting, I don't know why either.
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