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Bread Pitt is in the news, and for more than his next movie.

Ed Astra premiered at the Venice Film Festival and will be theatrically released in the U.S.

and September 20th.

Pitt plays an astronaut who goes into space in search of his lost father, whose experiment

threatens the survival of humans on Earth.

Kyle Buchanan saw the film and interviewed Pitt for the New York Times.

Buchanan reports that the film is more concerned with the protagonist's inner life

than the magnificent starscape outside his spacecraft.

Pitt tells Buchanan that the loneliness and introspectiveness of

the character appealed to him in part because, as he says, we all carry pain, grief, and loss.

We spend most of our time hiding it, but it's there. It's in you. Then Pitt discusses his

commitment to sobriety that followed the end of his marriage to Angelina Jolie.

He spent a year and a half in Alcoholics Anonymous, and found catharsis in the trust he experienced within his group.

One fact he has learned about himself is that he doesn't want to make as many movies in the future.

His interests now include sculpting and landscaping. When you feel

like you've finally got your arms around something, then it's time to go get your arms around something

else, he says. If you ask teenagers to identify Sean Connery or Gene Hackman, many will have a

vague idea at best. I wonder if the same will be true

of Brad Pitt one day. When movie stars stop making movies, the world moves on. We see a similar

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