‘Making Fury Made Me A Better Father’- Brad Pitt

Brad In Fury

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have a golden rule that they never work on a project at the same time, so they spend as much time together, with their six children, as possible. But when they accidentally broke their role this time last year to work on two different World War 2 movies, the newly married couple still managed to make things work.

Brad is currently promoting his new movie Fury, in which he stars and has a producer credit. Playing Wardaddy, Brad is the leader of a five-strong Sherman Tank crew in the dying weeks of the conflict, when the Allied forces are making the final push into Nazi Germany. Joined by Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Pena and and Jon Bernthal, Brad and the cast found themselves in the Oxfordshire countryside last autumn for David Ayer’s gruelling shoot.

Meanwhile, Angelina was on the other side of the world shooting her movie Unbroken in New South Wales and Queensland. For her second project as a director Angie has adapted the best-selling book written by Laura Hillenbrand, which delivers the shocking story of American track star Louis Zamperini, who incredibly survived a plane crash during World War II and then spent 47 days floating on a raft, only to be captured by Japanese militia and imprisoned for several years.

Speaking today at the London Film Festival, where Fury is the official closing night film, Brad told the press that although he hated being apart from his wife, prepping for their projects together was an enlightening experience.

“It was actually a lovely experience,” he admitted. “We don’t normally work at the same time but we got the schedules all cocked up, so it ended up this way. But it was nice, I was studying the European theatre, she was studying the Pacific theatre, I was studying tanks, she was studying bombers, it was good fun for us. We deal with the psychological damage of a solider, her film focuses on the triumph of the human spirit, it’s a very uplifting, very beautiful film.”

Brad also revealed that his experience of Fury and his research into the lives of the soldiers of WW2 has helped him in his personal life with Angelina and their family.