Brad Pitt to Voters: ‘Don’t Be So Emotional’
by Daniel Nussbaum 24 Nov 2015
Brad Pitt offered up
some advice to those about to vote in the 2016
elections — don’t let emotion cloud your judgement.
“Don’t be so emotional,” Pitt advised voters at the premiere
of his new movie The Big Short in New York on Monday, according
to the New York Daily News.
“Don’t see the world from our own backyard,” Pitt added.
“Understand everyone has self-interest and that we are now in a community. We
are not an island and we don’t always know best so let’s check ourselves.”
The Big Short
is based on the true story of four men who predicted the 2008 financial
collapse — Ben Hockett, Steve Eisman, Michael Burry, and Greg Lippmann —
and who profited mightily by betting against the American economy. Pitt, who
also produced the film under his Plan B production shingle, clearly gained
some perspective on the financial crisis while working on it.
“This entitlement that you can make money off the backs of
others without being responsible to what it’s doing to them or what it could do
to them drives me crazy,” Pitt told the Daily News. “The fact that no
one was held accountable after this mass failure drives me crazy so I wanted
this story told. I’m really proud to be able to tell this story.”
Director Adam McKay (Anchorman, Step Brothers)
echoed his star’s sentiments, telling the paper: “Banking’s just got to be
cleaned up. There’s nothing wrong with banking in essence. It’s just when you
take away the regulations it gets in trouble.”
Paramount moved The Big Short up from
its 2016 release date to this December, which allows the film to compete in
this year’s Oscar race. Ryan Gosling, Steve Carrell, and Christian Bale round
out the all-star cast. The film hits select theaters December 11 before opening
wide on December 23.
Brad Pitt
Brad
Pitt is a co-founder for the Jolie/Pitt
Foundation, and married to Angelina
Jolie.
Note: Jolie/Pitt
Foundation was a funder for Doctors
Without Borders.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for Doctors
Without Borders.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Millennium Promise.
Angelina
Jolie was a director at the Millennium
Promise, is a co-founder for the Jolie/Pitt
Foundation, and married to Brad Pitt.
Jimmy
Carter was an honorary co-chairman for the Millennium Promise, and is a co-founder & trustee for the Carter Center (think tank).
Sherry L. Lansing
is a director at the Carter Center
(think tank), and was a chair for the Paramount
Pictures Corporation.
Tommy
Hilfiger Group is a director for the Millennium
Promise.
David
F. Dyer was the president & CEO for the Tommy Hilfiger Group, and a contributor for Right to Rise USA.
Right to Rise
USA is supporting the 2016 Jeb Bush
presidential campaign.
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