The Wolfs press tour is trying hard to distract from Brad Pitt’s personal life falling apart (Picture: Daniele Venturelli/WireImage)
Brad Pitt and George Clooney would love for you to believe that they’re the best of friends.
The PR machine surrounding the pair’s new movie Wolfs – out in the UK on September 20 – focused heavily on the actor’s bromance and combined star power.
So much so that the movie itself took a backseat to the two Hollywood heavyweight’s in the lead up to its premiere.
In the style of Deadpool and Wolverine, it seems likely that Wolfs will only thinly veil Pitt, 60, and Clooney, 63, behind characters, giving them a very thin fourth wall so they can allude to their own stardom and real-life friendship.
Most of all, the film and the press surrounding it is working hard to distract from the controversy exploding in Pitt’s personal life.
Pitt and his ex-wife Angelina Jolie infamously split up after an alleged incident on a private plane in 2016 in which she accused her husband of being drunk and aggressive.
Now, eight years later, several of the pair’s children have dropped their father’s last name in favour of Jolie’s, reigniting discussion of the incident.
This has led many on the Internet to wonder: Why have the allegations of abuse against Pitt been largely ignored when other celebrities have been canceled for far less? How has Pitt’s reputation remained so spotless?
The lead up to Wolfs reads as a campaign to resuscitate Brad Pitt’s image (Picture: Solve Sundsbo/GQ/PA Wire)
The pair have gone to great lengths to emphasis their friendship (Picture: Solve Sundsbo/GQ/PA Wire)
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Wolfs’ entire purpose may be to serve as a kind of preemptive life support for Pitt’s reputation before the murmurs of cancellation can get louder.
And Clooney and his squeaky clean reputation and old school charm (and by extension, his human rights lawyer wife Amal and their young twins) is the perfect person to help scrub up Pitt’s image.
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It doesn’t feel like an accident that a recent GQ interview, titled George Clooney and Brad Pitt are Hollywood’s BFFs, took place at the very winery that has been at the center of an ugly legal dispute between Pitt and Jolie.
The extensive profile reads less like promotion for a film and more like lobbying material from a campaign for the position of the most famous person in the world
Many online users have begun to wonder why, exactly, Pitt’s alleged abuse has been ignored (Picture: Reddit)
Some have marvelled at how few people know about the controversy (Picture: Reddit)
Some Reddit users speculated that Pitt is simply worth too much money to be cancelled (Picture: Reddit)
The pair repeatedly refer to the sheer enormity of their careers …read more
Source:: Metro
