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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

Fright club: Brad Pitt’s GQ photoshoot is an embarrassment of pictures

Brad Pitt waits while his Oscar is engraved, February 9 2020.
Brad Pitt waits while his Oscar is engraved, February 9 2020. Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters

If I were part of the Hollywood elite, I would spend an inordinate amount of time fretting about which photograph of me they would use during the “in memoriam” segment of the Oscars. Would it show me young and vital? Old and dignified? A character shot from my most cherished film, where I played a fat baker being bitten on the crotch by a little dog?

I mention this because, if I had to guess, Brad Pitt doesn’t spend any time fretting about this. Not any more. Because, thanks to the selection of portraits that accompany his new GQ interview, we already know what he will look like dead.

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