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Brad says, 'It's surprising how much I enjoy the direction of my wife. She's decisive, incredibly intuitive, knife-sharp, and might I say, sexy at her post. I trust her with my life.'

• Oct 29, 2015

AceShowbiz - Brad Pitt opens up to V Magazine in its November issue about working with his wife Angelina Jolie in upcoming movie "By the Sea". Brad says he enjoyed being directed by his wife in the film. "It's surprising how much I enjoy the direction of my wife. She's decisive, incredibly intuitive, knife-sharp, and might I say, sexy at her post," he says, "I trust her with my life."

Brad says of the movie making process, "It was probably not the wisest way to spend a honeymoon. But then again, fighting to make something together. What better metaphor for marriage? It's not a film that responds to the current zeitgeist or storytelling - rather, a quiet, mature look at the challenges of love and adult loss."

"Naturally I didn't want to fail Angie's ideas...her words, but really I had absolute faith we'd figure it out," he adds.

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" 'Mr and Mrs Smith' this is not," the "Fury" actor explains further, " 'By the Sea' deals with that period when the honeymoon is well over and the couple is faced with the banality of every day and the pains of the unplanned. There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together. So who are you?"

Brad jokes that playing a lush was not a stretch for him. "I play a good drunk because I've been a good drunk," he says.

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He says of working with Angelina, "The plan was to make something together, with complete autonomy, in the footsteps of Gena [Rowlands] and John [Cassavetes]-and keep it a family affair. We, by our own admission, were overdue. If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife."

"For this one I operated on pure instinct," he continues, "Angie and I have too much history and understanding of each other to question beyond there. At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about their day, making sure they brush their teeth. So all the tensions from our day is tabled...until the next."