So, Oprah tried to work her magic last week on “Australia” — today she’s turning her attention to “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett both appearing on today’s show.
I guess you can expect a lot of Brangelina talk if that floats your boat, but hopefully, they’ll find some time to talk about the movie between all that. Tune in if you’re interested.
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I wonder if it’s on YouTube…
What did she say about the film? was it anything near her praise for Australia?
She hardly said much about the film at all. It was more about how great a dad Brad is. Cate talked a little bit… but not enough.
There was no way this was going to be about the film. It has taken 4 years for Oprah to get Brad Pitt back on her show and the focus was going to be on his personal life. She held the W magazine on her lap for most of it and poor Cate wasn’t even allowed out until 30 minutes in.
Oprah’s comment about the film was “interesting” and then, obviously delving deeper, “really interesting”.
Basically this is all that was said about Benjamin Button.
OPRAH:: well let me just tell you. Brad has a fascinating new movie that’s getting tons of buzz, it’s called the CCBB and it is – I’ve never seen a movie like this before. It’s the most unique and interesting new movie I ever remember seeing. It opens Christmas day and what did you think, Audience? Wasn’t it great? Somebody had to tell me, ‘you know that’s brad†and I was like an hour into the movie and I’m like, “that’s not Bradâ€
BRAD: Kind of, yeah, it’s kind of brad. With a lot of help from CG and David Fincher. They basically took all the CG that’s used to sink ships and blow up building sand kill monsters and took it to age the character from 80’s down to baby. The premise is he’s born old and grows backwards, all the way down to a baby.
OPRAH:: Brad ages backwards in this movie. He starts at 80 years old. It’s stunning. How do they do that? I want to see a movie about the movie. Then reverts into a teenager. Its so interesting too how your voice and movements and all that, and I was thinking how amazing, and then again, that is called acting.
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OPRAH: Oh my goodness – like porcelain though. We’ve never met in person, we’ve just talked by satellite, many times. Again, what an amazing performance in this movie.
CATE: Oh, well, you’re as good as who you’re working with, right Bradley?
OPRAH: And Brad, we didn’t even say how great you are.
BRAD: that’s okay, really…thanks, I appreciate that.
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