Brad Pitt Opens Up On ‘Errors’ to ‘Study From’ Throughout ‘F1’ Premiere

Brad Pitt is feeling reflective.

Whereas chatting with Entertainment Tonight on the F1 premiere in Mexico Metropolis this week, the 61-year-old actor opened up about navigating life’s twists and turns. 

“Irrespective of the error, you recognize, you simply study from it and transfer on,” Pitt mentioned through the Monday, June 9 crimson carpet interview. “It’s going to result in the subsequent success,” he added.

“Actually, I feel you get to my age and see how vital it’s to encompass your self with the individuals you recognize, the individuals you like, the folks that love you again. Buddies, household, and that’s it. From there, we get to go make issues. It’s a fairly easy, I feel, equation,” he continued.

Pitt was reflecting on feedback he made about his life being “contained” and “safe” in a Could interview with GQ, which additionally included profiles of his F1 costar Damson Idris in addition to Lewis Hamilton, a real-life F1 driver and one of many movie’s producers. 

“My private life is all the time within the information,” Pitt mentioned throughout his dialog with GQ. “It’s been within the information for 30 years, bro. Or some model of my private life, let’s put it that approach.”

He was then requested if making the motion film and attending to drive quick vehicles was “a refuge from all the eye.”

“Um, I don’t see it that approach,” Pitt replied. 

“It’s been an annoyance I’ve needed to all the time cope with in numerous levels, massive and small, as I do the issues I actually need to do. So, it’s all the time been this sort of nagging time suck or waste of time, in the event you let it’s that. Largely I really feel fairly…. My life is pretty contained. It feels fairly heat and safe with my pals, with my loves, with my fam, with my data of who I’m, that, you recognize, it’s like this fly buzzing round slightly bit,” the Mr. & Mrs. Smith actor added.

Pitt and Angelina Jolie, 50, split in 2016 earlier than being declared legally single in 2019. The pair, who’re mother and father to six children, finalized their divorce in December 2024, following years of authorized back-and-forth.

Pitt is presently in a relationship with jewellery designer Ines de Ramon, whom he has been dating since late 2022.

“Brad is completely satisfied that the divorce is behind him. Issues are low-key for the household,” a source told PEOPLE in March, including that the As soon as Upon a Time… in Hollywood actor is “completely satisfied” along with his girlfriend.

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“They’re in an incredible place,” the insider added. “Life’s good, no complaints.”

F1, from Apple Authentic Movies, is in theaters June 27 — simply days earlier than the Austrian Grand Prix.