Brad Pitt Covers Sports Illustrated Magazine: Ageing Well Or Meh?

September 20, 2011 by Hollywoodite

Brad Pitt promotes his new movie, Moneyball, on the cover of Sports Illustrated. It feels like an odd cover and not just because Pitt is stealing your soul with a leathery face that’s arguably not ageing so well.

SI put the actor in front of a tan background the same shade as his skin, so he kind of blends in and you fight too hard to distinguish him. And there’s something… off and too-close with the head shot. This is the male equivalent of the beauty shot of Angelina Jolie for Vanity Fair that did her no favours. It’s a match of being too-close and poor composition and post-production choices. Yes, it’s also been digitally-manipulated in some way. It’s hard to tell how, but if feels like that’s part of what’s throwing the image off. Anyway, Us Weekly has a preview of his interview.

He plays a baseball coach in the upcoming Moneyball, but Brad Pitt is anything but experienced in America’s favorite pastime.

“It’s shameful how little I know about baseball… I’m amazed they let me do this movie,” Pitt, 47, tells Sports Illustrated in this week’s cover story, which will hit newsstands on Wednesday.

“Baseball and I didn’t get along that well,” he adds. “I wrestled one year [in high school]. I dove one year. Everything but baseball.” What drew him to the role, says Pitt: “I’m a sucker for the underdog story.”

Pitt, who also graced last week’s cover of Entertainment Weekly and Parade Magazine is one of just a handful of non-sports figures to grace the cover of the sports magazine. – via Us Weekly.

In related news, Pitt just had his main premiere for Moneyball outside of TIFF. On September 9 at TIFF, Jolie accompanied him. At the Oakland, California premiere at the Paramount Theatre of the Arts, last night, Pitt was on his own. Us Weekly reports that Pitt got smashed drunk at the post-premiere party. Flynet Pictures has (exclusive) images of Jolie at Legoland Windsor with the kids, so she spent her day/ afternoon with them in the UK.

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