Brad Pitt On Making 'Ad Astra,' Processing Trauma And Channeling David Bowie
The actor stars in a new science-fiction blockbuster about more than just an astronaut on a space mission: "We wanted to do something very sincere and raw and painfully honest," he says.
In the near future, resources on Earth are limited, space pirates fight for control of the moon, and travel into deep space is possible.
At least that's the future in Ad Astra, directed by James Gray and starring Brad Pitt. In the new sci-fi movie, Pitt plays astronaut Roy McBride, the son of space hero Clifford McBride, who commanded a mission called the Lima Project.
That mission disappeared somewhere in the outer reaches of the solar system many years ago. But when he learns that his father may
