Interviews with Brad Pitt are your stargazer’s favorite interviews. He is never afraid to show his tender side, and never talks about a boring foundation for which he wants to raise money.
He was in this week GQ with an interview by the well-known American writer Ottessa Moshfegh, and it was another gem. Halfway through the interview, Pitt goes for two very heavy porcelain candlesticks, which he pushes into the hands of the writer. They are black with gold. Crafted myself. The great thing, he thinks, is that they will still exist in two thousand years, ‘because they have had a volcanic treatment’.
He also tells that he spent a year looking for a treasure chest of gold in his French wine castle, because a man had told him that there must be gold there. Later it turned out that the man wanted Pitt to invest in his company with radar equipment.
Then it becomes vintage Pitt. He is going to ask the interviewer questions. ‘I wanted to ask you… why the fucare we here on earth? Is there more than this?’
It becomes semi-romantic, they start reciting poems by Rumi to each other, and Pitt quotes vague quotes: ‘Something about being able to go along with the paradox’. Whose was it again – ‘It was either Rilke or Einstein’.
After a few days, he sends Moshfegh an email with remaining thoughts, organized into three parts: Summary, Clarification, and Reflection. If someone wants to publish that mail in its entirety, please, because nothing is more fun than endless drivel from Brad Pitt.
Aside from the news about Amalia who got her hunting license this week – on which it AD raised the justified, pointedly worded question ‘Is she now also regularly shooting animals?’, noted the site of Beau Monde that the royal family is suddenly under the spell of the good old tiara.
There is, according to Beau Monde, even a real ‘tiara moment’ going on. Queen Máxima wore one this week to dinner with the Diplomatic Corps, the Mellerio tiara with pink rubies. Princess Beatrix was there too, wearing an oldie: the pearl-button tiara she wore when she was inaugurated. Princess Amalia, who was last week on the eighteenth birthday of the Norwegian princess Ingrid Alexandra, was already there with a tiara. According to Beau Monde Amalia is ‘very fond of tiaras’.
Your stargazer now suspects that Amalia is behind the tiara moment; your stargazer was himself this week at a concert by teenage idol Olivia Rodrigo, and there were all the Amalias in the audience, often wearing tiaras. There were even tiaras for sale in the merchandise stand. That’s how it goes: the younger generation suddenly takes out the fun crazy old accessories of the oldies and starts wearing them again.
No one has yet answered the question whether Amalia is going to shoot animals – also a fashion that seems to be returning among young people.