Brad Pitt Gives Up Pot for the Kids
Brad Pitt is seen here looking every so..um…inglorious…at the New York premiere of The Time Travelers Wife held last week at the Ziegfield Theater in New York City. An interesting film of sorts, as Brad’s always tend to be, and is is a romantic drama about a Chicago librarian with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage. And though he looks a little rough around the edges, don’t let this bad boy image fool you, as he is working very hard to clean up his act. How so you say? He’s decided that his pot smoking days are over. Yes, while our boy Brad Pitt played a pot smoker in 1993′s True Romance and admits life imitated art for him until just recently.”I certainly had my day,” Pitt, 45, told HBO’s Bill Maher in an interview Friday after the Real Time host called the actor’s role “one of the best stoner performances.” Maher — who was grilling the actor on his upcoming flick Inglorious Basterds — also recounted a New Year’s Eve party at which he says he witnessed Pitt rolling “the most perfect” joints he had ever seen. Brad’s cheeky response? “I’m an artist.” And though the thought of Brad rolling a joint may dismay you, he admits he kicked the habit for his six kids — Maddox, 7, Pax, 5, Zahara, 4, Shiloh, 3, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 1 — whom he has with partner Angelina Jolie.
“I’m a dad now. You want to be alert and my eyes used to glaze over when I did that,” he told Maher, saying that pot would get in the way of his work. “I liked to smoke a bit of grass at the time, and I became very sheltered. Then I got bored. I was turning into a damn doughnut, really. So I moved as far away from that as I could. I was done.”
He has a woman in his life, but not a wife, and says that there are more important things to think about. And though he is getting a lot of flack for not slipping a ring on her finger, he still stands by the fact that she is the love of his life, his soulmate even he says. While they’re still hot for each other after four years of dating — he calls their backyard pool “a great place for sex” — he says they still have no plans to wed. Yes, yes, that is definitely far too much information for some, but this is not a couple that is shy about…well….anything really. Having a family together is a bigger commitment than marriage, he says.
“It’s certainly more than the ball-and-chain that country songs sing about. Our family is the base that gives Angie and me the long tether to go out and do all these other things. It’s a big step we’ve taken. We’ve put down roots together. As Angie and I carve out our time as a couple, we carve out our lives as individuals.”
And so when he is not making blockbusters, he is enjoying spending his time between his homes in New Orleans and the South of France, where his youngest children were born. He says these two areas have the greatest value in terms of quality of life, and he is going to continue being a movie maker, and a family man for as long as he can. Without pot.
Photo: Darla Khazei, PacificCoastNews.com
