Brad Pitt Elaborates on Previous Comments About Feeling He's on the 'Last Leg' of His Acting Career at 60

Mar. 15, 2025

Brad Pitt attends the “Blonde” red carpet at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in 2022.Photo: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty

Brad Pittis wondering what his “last years” are “going to be.”

The actor caught fans' attention in 2022 following a conversation withGQ, in which he revealed he was on his “last leg” when it came to his career. As he told the outlet at the time, he was looking at his “last semester or trimester” and was left wondering what he’d make of it.

“You know, there was moving out from the safety of the Ozarks. You embark on this thing and it’s all about discovery and it’s really exciting and interesting and painful and awful and all of it,” Pitt said. “And then when you’re allowed into the big leagues, it becomes another game of responsibilities and things to answer to. But also opportunity and delight and working with people you really respect.”

“And then it’s this time now,” he added. “It’s: What are these last years going to be? Because I see my parents are very — I see just what George was explaining. In your 80s, the body becomes more frail. And yet I look atFrank Gehry. He’s just the loveliest man. And he’s 95 and still making great art and he’s got a beautiful family.”

Referring to the famed architect and designer behind structures such as the National Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial and Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall, Pitt admitted “that’s kind of the formula to stay creative and keep loving your life.”

George Clooney (left) and Brad Pitt on March 3, 2012.Michael Buckner/Getty

“You start to understand this idea of mortality and that it is something we all have to deal with. You just become more aware of it,” Pitt said, adding that he’s “just trying to enjoy the people that I love around me and just living.”

“I don’t know how to not sound cheesy about it, but just the air is fresh and grass is green and I’ve just kind of become that guy a little bit,” he noted.

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Clooney, 63, also shared his thoughts on aging and what it was like when he himself turned 60. “When I turned 60, my wife and I had a nice dinner. We were talking and I said, ‘Look, I’m 60.’ Now I’m 63. And I said, ‘So here’s the thing, I can still play basketball with the boys. I can still hang, do a lot of s—. Physically, I’m in pretty good shape still.’ "

“I said, ‘But it doesn’t matter how many granola bars I eat. In 20 years, I’m 80. And that’s a different number.’ That’s a real number where your bones are brittle and your muscle mass is gone. So s— changes,” he added. “So these next 20 years we have to really focus not just on work, although you’ve got to continue to work. We also have to focus on life.”

George Clooney (left) and Brad Pitt on the set of ‘Wolves’ in 2023.Gotham/GC Images

The pair’s new action-comedyWolfsis also set to featureAmy Ryan,Poorna Jagannathanand Richard Kind. While Pitt and Clooney have previously teamed up forConfessions of a Dangerous Mind(2002) andBurn After Reading(2008), plus threeOcean’smovies from 2001 to 2007, their latest offering follows the pair as two professional fixers working together on the same assignment.

source: people.com