The actor is promoting his upcoming film, F1, with gusto.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Words by Nikki Peach<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/imago822363104-scaled.jpg” alt=”Jennifer Aniston” title_text=”F1 World Premiere – Arrival – Brad Pitt” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] Brad Pitt has a new film coming out. He plays a nomadic race car driver who returns to Formula 1 30 years after a near fatal injury. Pitt, who also worked as a producer on F1<\/em>, understandably wants the film to be a hit. In fact, his PR team seems to be, excuse the pun, in overdrive.<\/p>\n In the past month we\u2019ve seen more of Pitt than we have in several years. Given that he is still embroiled in an ongoing toxic legal dispute with his ex-wife Angelina Jolie \u2013 with their divorce only finalised in December despite formally separating eight years prior \u2013 his public withdrawal has made sense.<\/p>\n However, it seems that with the marriage behind him and F1<\/em> out on 27 June, Pitt is taking great steps to rehabilitate his public persona. He\u2019s doing press interviews and red carpet chats; he\u2019s getting papped on double dates with his girlfriend Ines de Ramon and Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper. He\u2019s, shall we say, \u2018experimenting\u2019 with his look. Namely, in the space of a single June weekend, he donned not one, but four eye-catching throwback ensembles. This included a bit of clashing tie-dye leisure wear that made him look like a nursery school display board, a blue crushed velvet blazer with a pair of Simon Cowell-inspired flares, some \u201890s decorator cargo pants, and a silk balloon shirt tucked into velvet-sheen grey trousers.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” gallery_ids=”10985,10989,10988,10987″ fullwidth=”on” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Naturally, Pitt\u2019s new look has got a lot of people talking, earning him the title of \u2018our new street style icon\u2019 from some corners of the media, plenty of references to his Fight Club character Tyler Durden, and accusations that he\u2019s \u2018having a midlife crisis\u2019 from others. Is it all an inside job? The jury is out.<\/p>\n However, his F1 promo wardrobe is the least of his worries. Read any story about Pitt and his legal saga with Jolie is not far out of mind. In his first big profile of the F1<\/em> press tour with GQ<\/em>, for example, it came up pretty quickly. He was asked whether he felt \u2018different\u2019 now that the divorce is official or whether he felt a sense of \u2018relief\u2019. \u2018No, I don\u2019t think it was that major of a thing,\u2019 he responded. \u2018Just something coming to fruition. Legally.\u2019<\/p>\n The eight-year back and forth over the custody of their minor children \u2013 Pitt and Jolie share six children, two of which are still under the age of 18 \u2013 and the ongoing battle over the legal ownership of Jolie\u2019s shares of their French winery, Chateau Miraval, suggest otherwise. The latter will see the couple meet in court next year and has unearthed troubling accusations on Jolie\u2019s part that Pitt subjected her to \u2018years of abuse\u2019 throughout their relationship.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}”] In 2021, Jolie sold her 50% shares of Chateau Miraval to the Stoli Group, owned by Russian Oligarch Yuri Shefler. Pitt claims she did so without consent and subsequently sued her a year later. Jolie then filed a countersuit claiming Pitt was \u2018waging a vindictive war against her\u2019 and alleges she attempted to sell her shares to him in the first instance but refused when he asked her to sign an NDA to cover up said abuse.<\/p>\n At the end of 2024, the judge ruled that the case would head to trial, which was seemingly a victory for team Pitt until they also ruled that Pitt must disclose the documents Jolie\u2019s team claim will prove the darker side of their relationship. Pitt has denied the accusations and called Jolie\u2019s request a \u2018sensationalist fishing expedition\u2019.<\/p>\n This context, which is never far from public view, is at jarring odds with Pitt\u2019s nonchalance. Speaking at the F1<\/em> premiere in Mexico City he made similarly surprising comments about family. \u2018No matter the mistake, you just learn from [it] and move on,\u2019 he told Entertainment Tonight. \u2018It\u2019ll lead to the next success. When you get to my age, you realise how important it is to surround yourself with the people you love, the people that love you back. Friends, family, and that\u2019s it. From there, we get to go make things. It\u2019s a pretty simple, I think, equation.\u2019<\/p>\n These comments might ring hollow with Pitt\u2019s own children, all of whom have taken a marked stand with their mother throughout the divorce and two of whom have formally dropped \u2018Pitt\u2019 from their surnames. The estrangement was perhaps best illustrated by their son Pax\u2019s 2020 Father\u2019s Day post where he called Pitt a \u2018world class asshole\u2019, an \u2018awful human being\u2019 and wrote, \u2018you continue to make the lives of those closest to me a constant hell\u2019.<\/p>\n This sentiment was echoed by Jolie\u2019s lawyer after the judge ruled for their case to head to trial. \u2018I want to emphasise that Angelina never wanted any of this,\u2019 her attorney Paul Murphy said. \u2018She never pressed charges, she left all their properties, and she is the one who tried to sell him the business in the first place. To this day, Mr. Pitt has never been held accountable for his actions and has at all times controlled Miraval and the winery, yet he still demands more. She wants this to end, the children want this to end, and Mr. Pitt should focus on healing their family, not pursuing lawsuits.\u2019<\/p>\n Pitt might be in the headlines for his turn as a race car driver this month, and for wearing outlandish satin blouses, but next year it won\u2019t be such a smooth ride. \u00a0<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”] Photos: <\/b>IMAGO & Getty<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some were prompted to ask whether he’s having something of an identity crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10979"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10992,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions\/10992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘You realise how important it is to surround yourself with the people you love.’ \u2013 Brad Pitt<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]