Brad Pitt: “We’re Run Out of Every Major City”
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were mobbed in Toronto leaving the premiere of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Seasoned Toronto gossip columnist Lainey Lui (laineygossip.com) calls what unfolded “the biggest celebrity mob scene ever. Ever.”
After the screening, Jolie, 32, and Pitt were in a car together en route to the after-party when their car was swarmed. “The crowd was so thick anyway, from people downtown on a Saturday night. And then, they were spotted,” Lui says. “The crowd started to find out that it was Brad and Angelina. People who were driving down on other streets left their cars and ran to see them. Seven people jumped on their car.”
Pitt and Jolie’s vehicle tried to inch forward. “We saw all these people running. People were holding up their cellphones (to take photos). This woman appears out of nowhere, runs up with her child, and was pushing her child up against the (moving) car. The lady was like: ‘I want my baby to see Brad Pitt.’ ”
According to Lui, through it all, “Brad was yelling at the driver to drive, Angelina looked like a woman completely paralyzed. You could read her lips, and she kept saying, ‘Get back to the hotel.’ ”
Pitt talked about the experience the following day in an interview with USA Today. “We had to come back here,” he said, referring to the hotel. “We had to get under a garage. Nothing was cordoned off. There were no barriers.”
When the famous couple isn’t being inundated with fans, they’re being followed by the paparazzi.
“It’s impossible for us,” Pitt, 43, says. “We’re run out of every major city. There’s just too many paparazzi. There’s always cameras in the kids’ faces, yelling their names. Angie gets out of the car, and they take the camera down to the curb and shoot up (her skirt). It’s unbelievable…there’s a constant negotiation in how to survive and how to maintain a family life.”
The actor says that he can tell when the cameramen are lurking around even when he can’t see them.
“You develop radar. Like I know when there’s someone in the bushes 300 yards away shooting,” he says. “I know to recognize that feeling. (On the Canadian set), there was a guy in total camouflage, who commandoed his way on knee and elbow. And I know that feeling. It’s inexplicable, one of those instincts.”
Source: US Magazine
