Yeah, the conversation on “The Charlie Rose Show,” is actually a long discussion about the mortality themes in “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button” with David Fincher, but near the end, around the 53:37 mark, Rose asks Brad Pitt about working on Terrence Malick’s “Tree Of Life,” a film that may debut at Cannes 2009. Not that much is known about the long-gestating film (though a long and vague synopsis is out there), but according to Pitt, despite the fact that he and Sean Penn are in the film together, they don’t really “cross paths” or get a chance to work and act alongside each other. “We cross cause we’re in different sections [of the film], but Penn is one of the greats to me,” Pitt said. No other concrete details are revealed.
There’s a tiny bit of conversation about Pitt’s role in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds,” where the actor shows off the accent of his hillbilly redneck character Lt. Aldo Raine in the way he pronounces bashterds. “It takes place in WWII, but I’m not sure it’s about WWII,” Pitt laughed.
