{"id":1707846,"date":"2022-10-23T08:20:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T12:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1707846"},"modified":"2022-10-23T10:28:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T14:28:07","slug":"brad-pitt-says-its-exhausting-to-have-to-constantly-chase-the-clint-eastwood-image-of-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brad-pitt-says-its-exhausting-to-have-to-constantly-chase-the-clint-eastwood-image-of-masculinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt Says \u201cIt\u2019s Exhausting\u201d to Have to Constantly Chase the \u201cClint Eastwood\u201d Image of Masculinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a 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        <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Throwing his two-cents into the ongoing debate surrounding the concept, veteran Hollywood actor Brad Pitt has revealed that he finds it particularly \u201cexhausting\u201d to live in constant personal scrutiny of whether or not one is living up to the \u201cClint Eastwood character\u201d of masculinity.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_186391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186391\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e78ef716.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e78ef716.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e78ef716-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e78ef716-1340x754-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e78ef716-768x432-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-186391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Bullet Train (2022), Sony Pictures<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/09\/20\/new-report-claims-prime-video-abandoned-a-conan-the-barbarian-tv-series-because-of-toxic-masculinity\/\">New Report Claims Prime Video Abandoned A Conan The Barbarian TV Series Because Of \u201cToxic Masculinity\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Bullet Train <\/em>star shared his thoughts on the topic during a recent interview with the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/09cc0af3-b921-44ef-a3d6-f09f81d52903\"> Financial Times<\/a> given in promotion of his upcoming art exhibition <em>WE<\/em>, where he, musician Nick Cave, and artist Thomas Houseago will be displaying a number of their respective, personally sculpted pieces.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_186390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186390\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e7632a98.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e7632a98.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e7632a98-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e7632a98-1340x754-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e7632a98-768x432-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-186390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Bullet Train (2022), Sony Pictures<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Speaking to the outlet\u2019s Victoria Woodcock about the themes of his work, Pitt explained, \u201cIt\u2019s all about self-reflection. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was looking at my own life and really concentrating on owning my own shit: where was I complicit in failures in my relationships, where have I mis-stepped,\u201d said the actor, who found a shared bond in collaborators Cave and Houseago through their shared struggles with addiction and trauma. \u201cFor 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_186395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e8b2280e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e8b2280e.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e8b2280e-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e8b2280e-1340x558-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e8b2280e-768x320-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e8b2280e-600x250-1.jpg 600w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-186395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019), Sony Pictures<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/01\/28\/graham-nolans-giant-size-two-fisted-manly-tales-promises-multiple-tales-of-toxic-masculinity\/\">Graham Nolan\u2019s \u2018Giant-Size Two-Fisted Manly Tales\u2019 Promises Multiple Tales Of \u201cToxic Masculinity\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To this end, Pitt would later tell Woodcook, he had found in recent years that \u201cIt\u2019s just exhausting to be anything but who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to understand, at least where I grew up, we\u2019re more the Clint Eastwood character; you hold everything within, you\u2019re capable, you can deal with anything, you don\u2019t show weakness,\u201d detailed the <em>Once Upon A Time In<\/em> Hollywood lead. \u201cI see that in my dad and the older generations of actors, and, man, it\u2019s exhausting.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_186393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186393\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e81b6ca8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e81b6ca8.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e81b6ca8-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e81b6ca8-1340x558-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e81b6ca8-768x320-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e81b6ca8-600x250-1.jpg 600w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-186393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019), Sony Pictures<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAs I get older, I find such a comfort in friendships where you can be [completely yourself], and I want that to extend in the outer world,\u201d he continued. \u201cWhat people make of it: I\u2019m fine. I feel safe here because there\u2019s a focus on our struggles as human beings, because it\u2019s fraught with peril. And joy as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find I have to walk with the pain I experience, and I have to walk with the joy, the beauty,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_186392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186392\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e7ee1bd2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e7ee1bd2.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e7ee1bd2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e7ee1bd2-1340x754-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e7ee1bd2-768x432-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-186392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Bullet Train (2022), Sony Pictures<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Notably, Pitt\u2019s musings on the topics of masculinity and peace come just a few short weeks after his ex-wife Angelina Jolie <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/t0D85\">made public allegations<\/a> that he had been physically and emotionally abusive to both her and their children.<\/p>\n<p>Revealed in a filing made as part of their ongoing legal battle over the ownership rights to a winery shared by the two prior to their 2016 divorce, these claims include instances of Pitt having \u201cchoked one of the children and struck another in the face,\u201d \u201cgrabbed Jolie by the head and shook her,\u201d and even \u201cpoured beer on Jolie [and in a separate occasion] beer and red wine on the children.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_186396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.33-boundingintocomics-63538eab619cb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.33-boundingintocomics-63538eab619cb.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.33-boundingintocomics-63538eab619cb-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.33-boundingintocomics-63538eab619cb-1340x754-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.33-boundingintocomics-63538eab619cb-768x432-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-186396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Bullet Train (2022), Sony Pictures<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As per the New York Times, Pitt\u2019s divorce attorney, Anne Kiley, responded to these accusations by asserting that \u201cMr. Pitt had accepted responsibility for some things in his past but that he would not accept responsibility for things he did not do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned art exhibition, <em>Thomas Houseago \u2013 WE With Brad Pitt &#038; Nick Cave, <\/em>is currently being shown at the Sara Hild\u00e9n Art Museum in Tampere, Finland, until January 15th, 2023.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_186389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186389\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e6cf3b2c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e6cf3b2c.png 1920w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e6cf3b2c-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e6cf3b2c-1340x561-1.png 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e6cf3b2c-768x322-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.10.22-06.32-boundingintocomics-63538e6cf3b2c-600x250-1.png 600w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-186389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Deadpool 2 (2018), Marvel Entertainment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/06\/24\/the-northman-director-robert-eggers-is-sick-of-cinemas-modern-tiresome-lame-commercial-culture\/\">The Northman Director Robert Eggers Is Sick of Cinema\u2019s Modern \u201cTiresome, Lame, Commercial Culture\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throwing his two-cents into the ongoing debate surrounding the concept, veteran Hollywood actor Brad Pitt has revealed that he finds it particularly \u201cexhausting\u201d to live in constant personal scrutiny of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1707849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1707849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}