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Pitt, 52, had kept a low profile after the Hollywood power
couple, dubbed Brangelina, split suddenly in September following
an incident on a private plane in which Pitt was reported to
have lost his temper in front of one or more of the children.
But Pitt resumed press obligations this week for espionage war
thriller "Allied". On Wednesday he attended a fan event
alongside his co-star Marion Cotillard and director Robert
Zemeckis, answering a few questions during a Facebook live
stream hosted by movie studio Paramount Pictures.
"I don't know much about the espionage world and what it took to
get behind enemy lines and to plant your characters, so that was
really interesting," Pitt said of the film, which will be in
theaters on Nov. 23.
The actor plays Canadian army officer Max Vartan, who goes
undercover in Casablanca during World War Two, paired up with
Cotillard's lively French spy Marianne Beausejour, to
assassinate a German Nazi ambassador.
While the pair flawlessly play a happily wedded couple during
their undercover stint, they soon find themselves falling in
love for real. But Marianne's alliances are called into
question.
Parts of "Allied" echo Pitt's 2005 spy action movie "Mr & Mrs.
Smith" in which he and Jolie teamed up on screen to play a
married couple that keep their espionage lives secret from each
other until they're ordered to assassinate one another. Jolie
and Pitt started dating shortly after filming the movie.
On Wednesday a source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said
Pitt fully cooperated in a comprehensive inquiry in a child
welfare case by the Los Angeles County Department of Children
and Family Services, which found no wrongdoing on his part.
Pitt was only asked questions related to the film during the
live stream interview, from his favorite Zemeckis movie to his
grasp of the French language, which he was required to speak in
parts of "Allied."
"I had to work at it really, really hard just to get that far. I
say I'm going to get this language, but it may take me a
lifetime," he said.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
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