Will Brad Pitt Retire From Acting?

The public is going to see less and less of Brad Pitt in acting roles for the next few years. The reason is not because the “Ad Astra” actor is completely retiring but because the actor has much more of “other things” to do now.

“It’ll be fewer and farther in between for me, just because I have other things I want to do now,” Pitt told the New York Times.

“When you feel like you’ve finally got your arms around something, then it’s time to go get your arms around something else.”

During the premiere of his film with Leonardo DiCaprio "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", he also answered questions about retiring.

The actor thinks retiring will one day just come naturally.

“I don’t know. I enjoy doing other things,” Pitt told Variety. “I think one day, I’ll wake up and organically, it’ll be done.”

Latin Times previously reported that Pitt called the acting industry a “younger man’s game”.

“Not that there aren’t substantial parts for older characters,” he said. “I just feel, the game itself, it’ll move on naturally. There will be a natural selection to it all,” he added.

Moreover, Pitt is now more selective in taking up acting roles.

“Now that I’m a dad, I’m clearer about the work I want to do. I’m now painfully aware that my kids are going to be seeing my movies as they grow up,” he told Red bulletin as quoted by Evening Standard.

“I think of how movies affected me when I was a kid, the ones that told me something, honed me a little bit, left that indelible mark. It’s important to me that I leave something they’ll be proud of.”

Aside from his recent successful acting stints in “Ad Astra” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, Pitt is described by NY Times as a “prolific producer”.

“Producing just means you don’t have to get up really early and put on makeup,” Pitt said.

The actor runs Plan B Entertainment, a production company that has created “12 Years a Slave” and “Selma, with Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner.

“Ad Astra” premiered at the Venice Film Festival on August 29. Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” debuted at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21.