BRAD:
Sure I do.

OPRAH:
You do.

BRAD:
I look forward to that.

OPRAH:
Is it hard when you go out? Cause uhm you didn’t see the tape before the show, but if you happen to see the show when you get home, you know, all the people, some people were primping. I won’t say everybody, before they got here. Cause they were thinking, maybe you will just look across the audience and say: “Damnit, the hell with this show and meeting Joe Black. I want that woman!” you know…

[Audience laughs]

OPRAH:
But you know, is it difficult to meet people who just, who see your heart? Who see your heart. Or do you have to only meet people who are in your own kinda circle, your own kinda life?

BRAD:
Well we hang out with people in our own circle and certainly uhm cause we understand what we’re going through maybe, in a sense… Argh that sounds so silly. We got a good life [Laughs] Alright? We gotta good life. But uh they’re there, I couldn’t limit it to that.

OPRAH:
You couldn’t?

BRAD:
No, I couldn’t limit it to that.

OPRAH:
So you might be like at a TWA counter one day and there’s a woman there and you could like, be interested?

BRAD:
[Mutters in a low voice] uh, uh, not now

OPRAH:
But yeah, I’m just saying…

BRAD:
Open, yeah.

OPRAH:
Open to the possibility. Cause, but I’m just thinking do you have some kind of radar that lets you know when people are after you for you, you know, whatever, fame…your house…

BRAD:
I’m getting very good at that. Yeah, sure there are people who are after, who have alternate motives and then there are people who are just very, very cool. It’s a great business. It draws so many interesting people from all these different walks of life, that wanna be in this little arena. I mean, it’s, fantastic people.

OPRAH:
Uh hmm

BRAD:
Yeah, truely.

OPRAH:
Well next…

BRAD:
You’re not so bad either.

OPRAH:
Well thanks. Thanks Brad! Next Brad’s mom talks about her famous son. We’ll be right back.

[Commerical break]

OPRAH:
Brad’s mom once visited us at The Oprah Show and we asked her about uhm about her son.

Clip of Brad's mom, sister, and sister in-law:

OPRAH:
Now, when he was coming up, did anyone have any idea it would turn into this?

JANE:
We always knew he'd succeed at whatever he did.

OPRAH:
Are you a proud mom?

JULIE:
We are his biggest fans.

JANE:
Of course....I've been proud ever since he was little, not because of what he does for a living.

OPRAH:
When you see him on the cover of Peopel magazine as the "Sexiest Man Alive"....This is a child who came through your womb. You know him as noone does. And you see him as the sexiest man alive. What do you think? jane....

JANE:
[pauses, smiles, shakes her head] No way!

[Brad and the audience laughs]

BRAD:
She’s good. That’s my mom.

OPRAH:
Yeah

BRAD:
They looked like the “Sgt. Pepper’s lonely Hearts Club” [All three women were wearing similar outfits with large shoulders, similar to the style of the uniforms in The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]

OPRAH:
They all decided: “We’re all gonna dress alike for the Oprah Show.”

BRAD:
[Looking right in the camera] I had to take that shot mom.

OPRAH:
When we were doing our research on Brad for this show, we came across a few of his acting from the early days, and couldn’t resist showing you a few of them.

[Shows pictures of Brad in his Dallas days]

OPRAH:
Some of you may remember, Brad had a thing on Dallas 10 years ago. Ya’ll remember? But also had a role on the daytime soap Another World. Take a look.

[Shows a clip of Another World]

BRAD:
[Laughs] That is good. This just goes to show: you can learn anything. Anything you set your mind to. All right?

OPRAH:
Okay, now if that wasn’t enough, we also dug up a potato-chip-loving Brad Pitt.

BRAD:
What was that?

OPRAH:
It’s a commercial you did in 1988 for “Pringles”

OPRAH:
That’s right, here you go.

[Shows Pringles commerical]

[Everyone hysterical laughing]

OPRAH:
You can learn anything!

BRAD:
That was… I never saw that!

OPRAH:
Never saw that.

BRAD:
Yeah, you can learn anything…

OPRAH:
Yeah, what has this whole thing… You know I love getting older actually, you know, especially this time in your life, when you have all these wonderful, great opportunities. But also the opportunity to do, what a lot of people don’t have, and that’s to kinda think about what your life really means. And why you’re really here and what, you know, that kinda stuff. So what has this whole fame train trip done for that part of yourself?

BRAD:
Oh, you know what my main theme is? “Work in progress.”

OPRAH:
Work in progress?

BRAD:
Yeah, work in progress, and we’re not finished till the day we die so, you know, live your life and figure it out and let other people do the same.

OPRAH:
Right.

[Audience applauds]

OPRAH:
Since there-this is Brad’s first show in front of an audience-we wanted to give you all-and he did too-a chance to ask questions and we’ll do that when we come back.

[Commerical break]

OPRAH:
Brad’s here. [Talking to audience] I gotta hand it to you; there was no primping during the commercial break, that’s very good. Cause I think you’re feeling more comfortable with Brad, and he with you.
Okay, since this is Brad’s first interview in front of an audience, he wanted to give everybody a chance. He actually asked us you know: “Will the audience get a chance to ask questions?” and we went: “Okay, if you want them to.”

BRAD:
We’re gonna dispel the myths…

OPRAH:
That’s right. We’re gonna dispel the myths here.

BRAD:
That’s right, have at it.

OPRAH:
Okay, Linda Mack, Montgomery, Illinois, where are you? [Oprah looks for her] Okay, what’s your question?

Linda Mack:
Well, I’m asking the question, but I’m doing it as a favor to Oprah. Now that she is an experienced actress, would you consider doing a love-scene with her?

[Everyone laughs, Oprah is very embarrassed]

BRAD:
Bring it on baby!

OPRAH:
I’m sorry, now Ellen......Ellen is the producer-and Candy, is this the reason why you didn’t let me screen the questions ahead of time?

[Brad laughs]

OPRAH:
I said: “Could I have the questions?” they go: “Oh no, don’t worry about it, we screened them.” Thank you so much Linda Mack. Embarrassing me up here. Uhm… Ray Jean Neece, Chicago. Where are you? There she is.

Ray Jean Neece:
What is the most inaccurate thing that anyone has ever said or written about you?

OPRAH:
Oh good, that’s good.

BRAD:
Ah! That I was stupid, I was gay, I was…. Na, na, na… How about that?

OPRAH:
Stupid and gay. [Looking at audience]

[Audience laughs]

OPRAH:
Both in inaccurate! What did you think recently of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, suing the tabloids?

BRAD:
I say have at it!

OPRAH:
Have at it.

BRAD:
No I think, again the accumulative affect and the just got fed up and right… Very cool people those two.

OPRAH:
Very cool…

BRAD:
Very funny people him and Nicole yeah.

OPRAH:
Really? They’re funny.

BRAD:
Yeah, very funny.

OPRAH:
I wouldn’t have thought they were funny! Would you? They’re funny...

BRAD:
Well, they laugh a lot. How is that?

OPRAH:
Okay. Stacey Kramer, Royal Oak, Michigan! You’re up!

Stacey Kramer:
Have you ever had your heart broken?

BRAD:
Oh sure, everyone gets…

Stacey Kramer:
Tell us about it.

BRAD:
Oh no, that’s all you get. [Pointing his finger at her is a cute, almost flirty way]

OPRAH:
Oh she thought she was Jerry Springer for a moment.

[Laughing]

OPRAH:
Oh no, I’m only kidding! “We’ve the heart-break of your life on here Brad, to surprise you.”

OPRAH:
St. Paul, Minnesota, Melissa?

Melissa:
Hi Brad

BRAD:
Hi.

Melissa:
I just wondered, how did you and Jennifer Aniston meet?

BRAD:
Uhm… we met uhm moonlight you know… We met through friends actually yes.

OPRAH:
They met through ‘Friends’, get it? “Oh Brad, such a witty guy.” Here we go, Mia Pilkington, Aurora, Illinois!

Mia:
I was just wondering, what your favorite TV-show was?

BRAD:
Friends

OPRAH:
Do you watch together?

BRAD:
............Friends!

OPRAH:
Okay Becky.

Becky:
How do you know when a woman likes you for your true self, and not for your image? Or your fame?

BRAD:
Oh how do I know… uhm [laughs] Well, I’ve been wrong in the past, let me say that, right? I feel that I got it down. It’s just a feeling, it’s just, it’s little things, the looks, it’s the… love is a mystery, okay? I can’t do much better one that one.

OPRAH:
It’s a feeling, okay? It’s the same thing you feel. Right. Okay.

BRAD:
It’s intuition, it’s an instinct and I got it pretty fine-tuned.

OPRAH:
Thank you. Carla Livney.

Carla:
Hi Brad. First I wanted to say that you’re my Anthony Hopkins and I would’ve been perfectly happy to watch you for one hour, while you read the paper… But my question is uhm, like Joe Black, would you be willing to change your life style for the woman that you love, you know with all the fame and everything?

BRAD:
Oh no. Actually I disagree with that.

Carla:
Okay...

BRAD:
I actually disagree. I think uhm in a relationship you need to find someone where you can truly be yourself with and don’t have to…

[Audience applauds]

BRAD:
That goes both ways. You have to allow them the same freedom and, and, love them for that.

[More applause]

BRAD:
“What a great guy” [Laughing]

OPRAH:
Rebecca? Rebecca Boyington? Rebecca, where are you honey?

Rebecca
What’s the one thing in life that you don’t have, that you want?

OPRAH:
Good question.

BRAD:
Oh… heavy question. I thought we was gonna rumors and… this is like philosophical and uhm, the one thing that I have…uhm hmmm…

[Someone in the audience yells out "kids" ]

BRAD:
Thank you! [Pointing to the person who yelled out kids]

Rebecca:
[annoyed, almost like she was ready to pounce him] No, it’s gotta be your answer!

BRAD:
No I wasn’t, she…

OPRAH:
No, don’t make him say he wants children, otherwise the next tabloid will be: “Brad…”

BRAD:
Oh yea, I can see them all.
“…begs Jennifer; ‘Have my baby!’”

BRAD:
That’s exactly right!

OPRAH:
You needn’t say that’s the one thing he wanted. You all did. And you know, everybody who says it who has children they go: “C’mon, say you want them!”

BRAD:
[Laughs] “Brad raided the Friends set!”

[Commercial break]

OPRAH:
What are the rumors Brad, you would like most to clear up?

BRAD:
Oh I just couldn’t… I didn’t… You never know how far they go and how deep they sink in someone’s conscience. So uh, I was gonna see what was coming up.

OPRAH:
Oh! Okay! Cause people just adore you.

BRAD:
Oh no! [Very modestly]

OPRAH:
Yeah, they do.

[Audience applauds]

OPRAH:
Just take it. Take it.

BRAD:
Oh okay, all right, and I thank you for that but I also, but that also goes both ways, that’s a thing of putting yourself out there… Uhm, that it goes both ways.

OPRAH:
That’s true

BRAD:
And uh if you reply on one too much you have to take the other as well so.

OPRAH:
Well Brad’s new movie, do I have to tell you it’s Meet Joe Black? It’s Meet Joe Black, and it really is delightful, it is about family relationships and connections, it’s about falling in love. And it’s a wonderful movie to take your parents to see. I know a lot of you said you wanna go back and take your fathers and boo hoo. And didn’t you want to call your dad, when you came out of this movie? Yeah, you did.

BRAD:
Excellent.

OPRAH:
It opens this Friday the 13th. Uhm Brad’s gonna go off to shave his head now. Is that true?

BRAD:
[Laughs]

OPRAH:
Is it true?

BRAD:
It’s required in the script. Yes…

OPRAH:
So there are time that you…

BRAD:
…it grows back.

OPRAH:
It grows back. Did you, cause what are you working on now?

BRAD:
A thing called Fight Club with David Fincher, who directed Seven and uh it’s also with Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter.

OPRAH:
Wow! Thank you, for doing your first hour-long interview

BRAD:
Thanks! It was good fun!

[Audience applauding and screaming]

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