Brad Pitt reveals ‘paradoxical’ approach to filming latest movie

• Brad Pitt has revealed the “paradoxical” approach he took to filming his new movie Bullet Train.
• The Hollywood actor plays a talented but exhausted assassin in the film.
• He says the director, Dave Leitch, infused his comedy with the old ultra-violence.

Brad Pitt has revealed the “paradoxical” approach that was taken to filming his latest blockbuster.

In the new movie Bullet Train, the Hollywood actor, who first gained notoriety in the roles of Mr. and Mrs. Smith and 12 Monkeys, plays the humorous assassin Ladybug.

Pitt, 58, discussed the process of employing humour while portraying a talented but exhausted agent who is determined to carry out his work calmly after one too many gigs has gone awry in an interview at the UK screening of the movie.

The Academy Award winner said: “Every film has its own tone and the director sets that tone and you commit to that tone.

“It’s something that’s actually never really talked about.

“And Dave Leitch, our director, has that tone. We met years ago, he was my stunt double, but now he’s my boss!

“And he just infused his comedy with the old ultra-violence and that was hilarious.

“I know it’s paradoxical!”

Brad Pitt continued by saying that the ability of the script to make him “laugh out loud” during the Covid-19 pandemic was what ultimately convinced him to sign up for the film.

He told: “I read this one in the doldrums of the lockdown, pre-vaccine, you know people were starting to go a little stir crazy. Me especially.

“And I read this one and it just made me laugh out loud and I figured, yeah this is what we need, we really need some of this.”

Leitch, who starred as Pitt’s stunt double in films such as Fight Club, Mr And Mrs Smith and Troy, revealed he had Pitt in mind for the role of Ladybug as soon as he began preparing for the film.

“I mean, I don’t know if I would do the movie if it wasn’t Brad,” he said.

“That sort of sealed the deal with everything we were thinking of and it’s just amazing that everything came full circle and he saw in it what we saw in it.”

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Bullet Train’s producer and Leitch’s wife Kelly McCormick continued: “Yeah we were sort of shocked when he [Pitt] responded…

“He’s so busy and he’s so special and then he read it in a weekend and responded on the Monday and he was like ‘I’m going to do this thing!’ and we thought this is so exciting.”

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who rose to stardom in the 2008 movie Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging before playing the title role in Kick Ass, also appears in the movie.

Taylor-Johnson, 32, who plays the killer Tangerine alongside Brian Tyree Henry’s on-screen “twin” Lemon, talked about his close bond with Tyree Henry, 40, who plays Lemon.

“I love this guy,” he said.

“Firstly, I was a huge admirer of his acting career and all the roles he played before.

“So when he stepped into the role of Lemon, I knew I was in great hands.

“Then when I met him, it was just like an instantaneous love affair. I just think he’s the best man in the world and that was built on trust.

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“So then we were able to just throw the script away and make up some shit!”