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Jay: My first guest is an Oscar nominated
actor. He stars in Snatch, it's a terrific film and he stars in another
film, the Mexican, which opens March 2nd. Please welcome Brad Pitt!
(audience cheers)
(Brad comes out, shakes Jay's hand and gives him a hug. Takes a seat,
looks around at the audience, sticks out his tongue and gives a thumbs
up sign.)
Jay: Thanks for coming. How you doing?
Brad: Yeah, I'm doing great, Jay, thanks for having me, really great
(Audience is still screaming for him so he does this "enough"
movement with his hand to quiet them down. They politely obide and shut
up promptly LOL)
Jay: I like that suit
Brad: Thank you very much
(some dude yells something out and Brad shoots a mock weird, raised-eyebrow
kind of look in his direction. Everyone laughs)
Jay: You look good in that suit...I'm looking and I realize that is one
half of my suit.
Brad: How so?
Jay: Well, I mean..
Brad: Do you mean by the same cloth?
Jay: Yeah, yeah, same material...But see, it looks good on you, i don't
know... Hey, great job in Snatch. We've been talking about this movie,
its a little English movie (to the audience) have you seen it?
(audience cheers)
Brad: Thanks a lot.
Jay: Again, this is something I admire, you know, when big stars do those
little low budget movies and, you know,its sort of like this quiet cult
hit. For those who haven't seen it, tell us what its about.
Brad: Its this crazy cast of characters that are all chasing this giant
diamond, basically. But it's this...If you've seen Guy Ritchie's first
film called "Lock, stock and two smoking barrels", its got this
great energy, the way it weaves these characters together...its pretty
genius, I have to say.
Jay: Now you play?
B; I play One Punch Mickey (audience falls completely silent for a few
seconds. Brad laughs) I know, I know, I'm not a fighter.
Jay: An Irish gypsy, right?
Brad: An Irish gypsy, teaker, fighter, bare knuckle fighter, yeah
Jay: Now, how did you get this film? I mean, this is a little film, its
a small movie obviously.
Brad: Well, I've seen the first one so I went knocking on his door.
Jay: You called him?
B; I called him up and said, you know, 'Loved it, got anything in the
next one?' And he told me about this Irish fighter guy...
Jay: Now, back up for a minute. I'm wondering...ok you pick up the phone,
like 'Brad pitt, i'd like to...', click, yeah right. I mean, how does
that happen?
Brad: Well, I think he gets a warning first.
Jay: Oh, he gets a warning?
Brad: Yeah, yeah. That's the gist.
Jay: Okay.
Brad: He was very cool about it, you know, he didn't want to...only if
it fit. And so i think the original character was supposed to be about
300 pounds but somehow it still fit. He just made it work
Jay: Now how does that work? Cuz again, I know this town a bit and you're
a big star and I'm not trying to embarrass you, you get a lot of money
for movies. And this is not a big money movie, the budget's probably less
than what you get per movie.Do all agents say to you...
Brad: I DON'T get alot...I mean, I do, I do but i always end up taking
cuts. They bill me as this guy but I take cuts ‘cuz i want to work
with so and so or i want to do this and ...
Jay: Right. Well, thats what I mean. Do you have agents and people that
are saying 'oh, no, you can't do that, its bad to be in a little movie'...
Brad: No, they've given up on that.
Jay: That's what i admire. I like that you do what you want to do and
make it work.
Brad: Oh, good. Thanks, Jay! Yeah.
(looks out into the audience with the most adorable smile on his face
and they laugh)
Jay: Now the language that you talk, its a combination of what?
Brad: Hell if I know (laughs). That accent is really the forty foot free-throw
with 3 seconds left on the clock. I didn't know what i was gonna do. I
was more worried about the fighting cuz i'm not a fighter. I don't like
hitting people, I don't like getting hit (audience goes "awww")
No, I'm not being nice here! What, are you kidding me? IT HURTS! I don't
like it. I want no part of it.
Jay: Have you ever been decked in real life?
Brad: Yeah, it's been... back in 1932. I ended up, you know, squeezing
the guys satchel just to get him off of me.
Jay: Really?
Brad: Yeah.
Jay: That might've encouraged him
(laughter)
Brad: No, this was in Missouri.
(a few members of the audience yell out "hey" LOL)
Jay: Can you speak, i mean, did you have lines or were you making them
up?
Brad: No, those are legitimate lines. Yeah, well,I had a head start I've
done an Irish accent before, which is a Northern accent which is... first
you start with a melody (he starts speaking with an Irish accent) everything
kind of goes up, it's all very lyrical like this. "You're a stupid
man, Mr. Berg", "You're a very handsome man, Mr.Leno" (audience
hoots) "Its a lovely suit, Mr.Leno"
Jay: Just don't go grabbing my satchel
(Brad raises an eyebrow conspicuously as he takes a sip from the Tonight
Show cup. More laughter from the audience)
Jay: But you looked different, did you do something different to your
face in this movie?
Brad: Just a bridge on the nose (touches his nose to show where)Cuz I
got this kinda cute, you know,(an audience member whistles LOL) pixie
nose. That says: this guy doesn’t fight.
Jay: Cuz it looked like... i couldn’t figure out what it was.
Brad: Yeah, just trying to mess it up a little bit
Jay: Now, you had the tattoos, did those come off in the shower?
Brad: They weren't supposed to..we started out with henna and then we
found out somebody's got henna poisoning. They were supposed to last for
the entire shoot, we shot... my section was 2 weeks. So then we went to
this other tattoing that was supposed to last 4 or 5 days but it only
ended up lasting a day and it took 5 hours to apply all these tattoos
which means you had to get up butt early in the morning, its not fun before
you start a full day of shooting... Can I talk more with my hands?
(mocks himself by gesturing around and audience laughs)
Jay: I am just trying to figure out what butt early means?
Brad: Butt early is the crack of dawn.
Jay: Let's show the people a clip of what we're talking about cuz i really
loved this movie, it really made me laugh. Let's take a look. Here you
are...oh, you're trying to get these guys to give you a trailer
Brad: That's right. They're bargaining... they are trying to get me to
do this fight for them and i'm saying 'yeah, if you do something for me'
Jay: See if you can understand him, take a look.
---snatch clip----
(applause from audience)
Brad: I gotta give credit to Benicio. Yeah. I really
took... 3 days before I was about to start this thing, i was in a panic,
I couldn’t figure what I was supposed to do and drawn from Benicio
Del Torro... Have you guys seen Traffic yet? (audience cheers enthusiastically)
Whew, this guy just makes me wanna work everytime i see him. But do you
remember him in The Usual Suspects? He was kinda the first guy that made
it OK to be incomprehensible and so borrowing from him, we went with this
and it really worked out for us.
Jay: It worked out great. Let's take a break, when we come back, i want
to ask you about the marriage and all that.
Brad: Great
Jay: Be right back with Brad Pitt.
---commercial break---
Jay: We're back, talking with Brad Pitt. Now, you
and Jennifer Aniston got married last year
Brad: Yes, we did.
Jay: That looked like a lot of fun
Brad: It was fantastic.
Jay: Now, how did you keep the press away? You guys did a pretty good
job
Brad: Well I got...there's two bits to that. Cuz i got a little crazy
with that, I get a little, you know, the paparazzi and i, we have a big
game going on. And I started getting carried away with that and Jen, uh,
smacked me around, remembered why we were there. And, you know, we wanted
to do the thing outside and we wanted to write our own ceremony. We kinda
gave up on it all. And something happened. At the very last minute, when
the ceremony started, the press backed off. And I really have to thank
them because they were just so cool. They let us have our moment, they
let us have what turned out to be the highlight of my life and yeah, it
was amazing.
(audience applauds)
Jay: You've been out of the country a lot this year. Is that tricky as
a newlywed?
Brad: Yeah. Distance is a beast, its a beast.
Jay: So what do you do?
Brad: Fortunately, Friends run...you can find Friends in pretty much any
country. There's a lot of phone bills, I get to see Friends. In Spanish
or in German...
(he starts singing the beginning of the Friends theme song in German,
the audience is thrilled beyond belief LOL)
There's some of that so i get a little taste...Or we have these web cams...
Jay: Is that a little taste, seeing Friends?
Brad: Well, it makes me happy.
Jay: And you have a web cam?
Brad: We have web cams, yeah, with the little video file. I'm new to this
game but Technology Rocks!(thumbs up sign) But we have these web cams
and you can't see movement really, it's like every 6 seconds it takes
a picture and yeah, it's frozen, like... it's like you'll be talking (makes
a silly "talking" face)and it'll freeze like this. Then you'll
say something else and you'll laugh
(makes a hilarious "laughing" face. Audience is rolling)
But she gets to see what room I am stuck in and I get to see her and all
Jay: It seems like you should be TOGETHER
Brad: We're doing our best. We are.
Jay: I know you grew up in Missouri. Do you get back home very often?
Brad: Once or twice a year or, you know, the clan comes out.
Jay: Is it crazy, do you go back to see the high school guys?
Brad: Not really. I mean, my folks are on the the river so usually when
we get to get away, it's time off so we just kind of hang out with them,
with the family.
Jay: Now what did they think when you went into show business? I mean,
cuz i come from a small town too and it's like, 'sure, you're gonna be...'
(voice trails off) were they worried about you?
Brad: Yeah, well, its not an option acting in Missouri (Jay laughs) So
when i moved out here, I lied and I just said, i didn't tell them, I said
I was going to an art center in Pasadena, which is a good design school.
They got hit pretty quick.
Jay: That's cool. Now tell us about the Mexican, this is you and is it
Julia Roberts?...
Brad: Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini from the Sopranos.
Jay: He's great, isn't he?
Brad: Aw, he's amazing. I just want to know: why do we have to wait so
long for the next season? What is going ON?!
Jay: I know. But the Sopranos, I think it starts next month.
Brad: Oh. Well, I'll shut up then.
Jay: So what is it about?
Brad: This one is about...(laughs) This is... Oh god, what IS it about?
I find it very funny, couples, you know, fight a lot cuz it's always about
nothing, its about the silliest things. Well, we catch this couple at
that moment in their life when they're just not getting along, nothing
is working. And she's been hanging out for him, he's required to do one
last job, as many movies go, and she's saying 'I’m not having it,
i'm going on with my life' and from there the hijinks ensue.
Jay: Well, here, we have a clip, lets take a look. The scene is from Mexican,
opening next month
---scene from mexican. Brad is trying to get a
donkey to move but it runs away from him (after he called it an ass LMAO)
He sees a truck filled with Mexican farmers. He tries to get a ride from
them but they don't understand a word of English. He says "dinero",
they think Robert De Niro, you get the idea. Finally, after stammering
for words "I need a ride, in your el trucko, to the next towno...villago...pueblo",
they start understanding him. Brad is adorable in that scene!-----
(audience cheers)
Jay: Brad, thanks for coming.
Brad: Ah, great, Jay.
Jay: Good luck and see us again sometime?
Brad: I'd love it
(more cheering)
Jay: Do you have a favorite in the Jaywalk Allstar?
Brad: (thinks for a moment) Uh....the "gastritis major"
Jay: Oh ok. That was Lisa.
Brad: Lisa. Go, Lisa
Jay: Brad Pitt. Be right back with Jaywalk Allstar.
(cheers)
The End.
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