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Brad Pitt doesn’t want to \u201cCry Macho\u201d like Clint Eastwood off-camera.<\/p>\n

The Oscar winner opened up about the \u201cexhausting\u201d pressure to perform the iconography of masculinity as represented onscreen.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt’s just exhausting to be anything but who you are,\u201d the \u201cOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood\u201d alum told the Financial Times. \u201cYou have to understand, at least where I grew up, we’re more the Clint Eastwood character: you hold everything within, you’re capable, you can deal with anything, you don’t show weakness. I see that in my dad and the older generations of actors, and, man, it’s exhausting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pitt continued, \u201cAs I get older, I find such a comfort in friendships where you can be [completely yourself], and I want that to extend in the outer world. What people make of it: I’m fine. I feel safe here because there’s a focus on our struggles as human beings, because it’s fraught with peril. And joy as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cBullet Train\u201d star made headlines earlier this year for wearing a skirt to the premiere of the David Leitch-helmed action film. \u201cWe’re all going to die, so let’s mess it up,\u201d Pitt said at the time (via Variety).<\/p>\n

Pitt, along with musician Nick Cave and Los Angeles-based artist Thomas Houseago, exhibited a sculpture collection at Finnish art museum Sara Hilden. \u201cI find I have to walk with the pain I experience, and I have to walk with the joy, the beauty,\u201d Pitt said. \u201cOur mutual misery became comic, and out of this misery came a flame of joy in my life. I always wanted to be a sculptor; I’d always wanted to try it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pitt, billed as a \u201clargely self-taught\u201d artist, explained his pieces are part of his emotional rebirth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was looking at my own life and really concentrating on owning my own shit: where was I complicit in failures in my relationships, where have I misstepped,\u201d the \u201cBlonde\u201d and \u201cShe Said\u201d producer said. \u201cFor me, it was born out of ownership of what I call a radical inventory of self, getting really brutally honest with me, and taking account of those I may have hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n