The actor, 58, said: “I read this in the middle of lockdown, they hadn’t found a vaccine, it just made me laugh and I thought yeah that’s what I want to see.” In Bullet Train, she plays Ladybug, a hapless assassin whose first job after an extended stint in therapy goes spectacularly wrong. “For a murderer it’s a real conflict of interest,” he told Sky News. “He’s working on his mind, it’s not going so well.” The film sees Pitt reuniting with David Leitch, his former stunt double and the film’s director. Leitch is now a successful director of some of the biggest action titles of recent years (John Wick, Deadpool 2), but back in the day he played a lot of fists in some of Pitt’s biggest hits, including Fight Club, Oceans 11 and Mr. And Mrs. Smith. “We met on Fight Club … and continued working until about ’04 on a bunch of movies, then he left me for greener pastures and now we’ve come full circle,” Pitt said. Read more: Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston reunite on screen in a thrilling read It is perhaps to be expected then that the film is full of battles and Leitch was not about to let his leader get hurt. “We’re all game and it seems like the stuntmen are overprotective, you know what I mean? But he designed his fights with humor, like Jackie Chan.” Pitt’s low-key choices for the London premiere – a suit – weren’t as impressive as in Berlin earlier this week, where he walked the red carpet in a skirt. But the Hollywood actor joked that he would highly recommend it to British men if they want to keep their cool. “I will say, it’s all about the breeze, the breeze is very nice… very, very nice.”
