Brad Pitt has reflected on his character on Bullet Train and how it mirrors his own attitude towards anger and calmness.
Bullet Train tells the story of Ladybug, played by Pitt, an assassin asked to complete one last job by retrieving a briefcase on board a high-speed train from Tokyo to Kyoto.
As well as Pitt, it stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Joey King, Sandra Bullock, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Bad Bunny, Michael Shannon and Zazie Beetz among others.
Pitt has spoken candidly about his relationship with anger in the past, and the character of Ladybug is a man who tries to keep it cool despite the chaos surrounding him.
“ trying really hard . He's such a chump. He just can't get out of his own way and it just makes me laugh,” Pitt said on Australian talk show Sunrise.
“I mean, I'm pretty laid-back but I can lose it and lose my shit, and I can certainly step in shit and put my foot in my mouth.
“So, just making fun of all of that, where the big laugh is.”
When discussing his anger issues, particularly in the past, Pitt says he is a human being like everyone else.
“I lose it at times. I get sucked into something, and I can lose it. I take my hands off the wheel... I'm human,” he told Interview Magazine.
“I'm realising, as a real act of forgiveness for myself for all the choices that I've made that I'm not proud of, that I value those missteps because they led to some wisdom, which led to something else."
Bullet Train the movie of the summer?
Bullet Train was previously talked up by Pitt's co-star Taylor-Johnson, who reckons it could be this summer's most unmissable movie.
“I watched (the movie) last week and I was literally howling with laughter to the point that I almost peed on my seat a little," the Kick-Ass star said at the CineEurope conference in Barcelona.
"But honestly, this is the summer movie you do not want to miss — I am not kidding. It follows the ultimate legend Brad Pitt like you’ve never seen him before, surrounded by an incredible ensemble of absolutely bombastic, unhinged assassins who are connected but with conflicting agendas.
"You just can’t help but love Brad Pitt. I mean, he is the most handsome man in the world, but is also a comic genius."
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Bullet Train
Action / Comedy
2022 • 126 minutes
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