Brad Pitt and the boys of Fury have really started making the promotional rounds in earnest. Shia LaBeouf has been making TV appearances, trying to get his arrest out of the way so he can talk about Fury. Brad doesn’t have that problem – Brad is the elder statesman of this particular war film, so it seems like all of the younger guys are going to spend a lot of time talking about how cool Brad is. Shia’s already started – he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night and he told a story about fighting with Brad on the set and how much he loves Brad:
I kind of like Shia when he’s fan-girling Brad. I’ll admit that!
As for Brad, he gave an interview to Radio Times where he discussed his familiarity with weapons. Apparently, Brad inherited his grandfather’s gun when he was only a kid.
He’s set to star in Second World War movie, Fury, in which he stars as the commander of a Sherman tank crew – and Brad Pitt reveals he’s always had a respect for weaponry. The 50-year-old told Radio Times magazine in a recent interview that he’s grown up with guns.
‘There’s a rite of passage where I grew up inheriting your ancestors’ weapons,’ he told the publication. ‘My brother got my dad’s. I got my grandfather’s shotgun when I was in kindergarten.’
In fact, so much so was the tradition, that Pitt owned his first air gun when he was in nursery, received his shotgun when he was six and had fired a handgun by the time he was eight. He told the magazine: ‘The positive is that my father instilled in me a profound and deep respect for the weapon.’
Brad remarked that he brought his family to the set of his latest movie, which was shot over 12 weeks in the fields of Oxfordshire and at Bovingdon Airfield in Hertfordshire. He told the magazine: ‘Maddox knows so much about tanks that when we first started on the movie, I was asking him for information.’
Eh, I grew up in the South and I went to school with a lot of boys like this, boys who went out hunting with their daddies from a very young age. There is a “gun culture” in rural areas, not just in the South and Midwest, but all over America. I tend to believe the majority of gun owners are like Brad describes – weapons are passed down from generations, and there’s a focus on responsible gun ownership from a young age. Of course, there are notable and horrible exceptions to that.
Brad also gave an interview to The Telegraph about being a “tourist” in the war experience and all of that – go here to read.
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Is that Shane?? Ok, I may just have to actually see this movie now.
YES! that is shane from TWD!
He’s so banging hot
Um random headline.
Yes! Very random
Hat. Weird hat. That’s all I got out of this.
Agreed. Orange is Not Brad’s color! And he needs a wider brim.
Cool hat.
Fury has been getting great reviews!
Brad has been making execellent choices when it comes to making movies! 🙂
It’s picked up more positive reviews on rottentomatoes in the past day or two. It was previously doing around 58% positive but now it’s at 70%. There are a lot of trailers showing on TV now and they look good.
I grew up in the South as well. My father had guns, which were kept in locked closet that we were not allowed to touch upon pain of death. My brothers learned to shoot fairly young. But I also knew two boys in my town, one in grade school and one in high school, who were killed in shooting accidents. I would never have a gun in my house. I honestly just think it’s foolish.
+1
I do not like guns and weapon, and my father used to be a hunter.
Honestly I am pretty horrified by them.
I grew up around firearms, some from WWI/WWII that were passed down, some hunting rifles, and the odd handgun. Military family. We were taught from childhood not to ever think of a firearm as a toy, to never aim at something you wouldn’t want destroyed, assume every firearm is loaded, and to never put your finger on the trigger until you’re ready to shoot. We had a healthy respect for them. I’m inheriting a few myself, though they will be kept for sentimental reasons more than anything, and locked up unless I want to go target shooting or something.
Overall – I’m way more afraid of knives than guns. We headed out to my husbands “hunting zone” yesterday and he had a machete, making notches on the trees here and there so that he would be able to find his way out if he didn’t leave before it got too dark. I winced every time he used it. I just imagine it slipping out of his hands and lopping a body part off. I knocked a steak knife off the counter a month or so ago, and the damn thing went straight into my foot. That frigging hurt, and bled a ton… and I was home alone at the time. I’ve been extra wary of sharp objects since.
Ow.
I get it when people say the key is education and respect and all of those things. We were not even allowed to point toy guns at a person. But both kids were taught the same. One of the boys accidentally shot his brother, and the little one shot himself when his father left the gun unattended while he answered the phone. Mistakes happen, and when you allow kids near deadly weapons, there are tragic results.
I worked in a rural town years ago on the West Coast and it was the same thing. Most kids got their first rifle a little older, about 11 or 12, but were not allowed to use it until they went to a hunting class through the hunting association. It was a big deal and kids were very respectful when they talked about guns in class where I taught. There was none of this “I’m going to shoot you” kind of stuff. It was all about hunting animals and feeding the family. Much different and in the five years I was there I never heard of a single death from guns. There were multiple deaths due to drunk driving but not guns. Education and respect really is the key imo.
I guess I’m on the other side of the spectrum where I’ve never known anyone to be in a shooting accident of any kind. I realize they happen, but usually it’s simple carelessness. It’s not like guns magically go off. I carry a gun everywhere I go because frankly we live in an unsafe world. I’m sure on this comment board that brands me as a gun nut but so be it. A realtor in my area recently got snatched and murdered while showing a house. Which reaffirmed my concerns. (Google Beverly Carter if you think im being dramatic) If you don’t carry a gun, carry SOMETHING.
I think Fury will do well,hopefully It will knock Brad’s “brother”, Fincher ,from #1 spot.
OT I read the story about realtor murdered.I’ve always wondered when realtors met buyers at a empty house ,do you usually meet them at your office first?What is the screening process,do they send you a pic of their ID or something?I would be anxious meeting a stranger in an empty house
I’ve worked with DWB for too long – seen what even the smallest gun can do. Guns horrify me. Never in my house either!
Riveting
I grew up in the Northeast and visited the South and there are way more guns down South than up North. None of my friends had guns in the house when I was coming up. In the South there are more guns than people.
There might be more people who rely on hunting to be able to feed their families, and there might be more right wing gun nuts, because such is the south (I’m from a rural part of the south myself, so this is first hand experience, not speculation based on stereotypes), but gun ownership isn’t just a southern thing. I grew up in a house with guns, and my dad refused to keep them locked up, because he figured if we saw them out, we’d respect them and not fear them. I had no interest in them, whatsoever, and I’m not a fan of hunting, but different strokes.
When I was in junior high, one of my cousins shot and killed himself with a gun he’d taken from a friend who was allegedly planning to kill himself. They thought they’d fired all the rounds, but one was lodged. The sick part is, he was only trying to scare his mom. She watched him die. I’m all for having a gun if you want it, aren’t mentally unstable and have a clean background. But for me personally, no thanks.
I want to see this movie mainly so I can envision myself in a dirty Brad Pitt/Jon Bernthal sandwich. That is all.
I think guns aren’t the problem. The whole film is about man’s inhumanity towards his fellow man. That can be shown in war, in politics and everyday life.
Sometimes guns (and weapons of ANY kind) just make it easier.
That hat looks ridiculous and Brad looks old! I don’t get the gun thing at all. I don’t understand why people in the USA love their guns so much. I have two friends from Texas and they always have a gun in their purse. Why??
Brad is 51, he is getting older. Looks good for his age.
It isn’t just boys with their daddies! I grew up hunting with my dad AND mom, and yes, I’m a girl. There’s a persistent strain of sexism in gun culture though. From my Hunter’s Safety instructor (when I was 12) only addressing the boys and their dads, to some present day shooting range masters who assume women require a special Marksmanship for Morons language. I’ve been going on hunts since I was three, started handling bows and arrows and air rifles when I was six and progressed to actual rifles at 11. My parents were incredibly diligent about gun safety: never point a weapon at anyone, every gun is considered loaded and dangerous, etc… No accidents.
One of the many positives to raising little hunters is that we are instilled with proper respect for firearms and nature. Every hunter I know eats/uses the animals, or donates the meat to shelters.