Brad Pitt is having a blast in the South of France. The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actor, 55, attended the Cannes Film Festival to world premiere Quentin Tarantino‘s film on Tuesday and posed happily alongside his costars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie.
“He was very happy to be there,” a source tells.
“[He was] absolutely relaxed and smiling like I haven’t seen him for some time,” the insider adds.
“We kind of grew up in the same generation, got our start around the same time. Quentin gave us an incredible back story for our characters. He literally came to us with a bible that they had worked to put together about the friendship that they shared. What they have been through in the industry, they are now on the outskirts.
“There’s sort of a new era in Hollywood and they are outsiders. That sort of fed into this immediate ease and comfort that he and I had with another and look. So when Quentin puts you in these improvised scenarios, we have a good foothold on the history of our characters. I think we together forged a great cinematic bond in a film about our industry together,” the actor said.
The film, which had its world premiere at Cannes, is billed as Tarantino’s ode to the Hollywood of his childhood and explores how the Golden Age of the industry came to an end with the murder of actor Sharon Tate at the hands of the Manson Family cult in 1969.
It features DiCaprio as Rick Dalton, an ageing, out-of-work actor, with Pitt playing his longtime stunt double named Cliff Booth. The two characters happen to be the neighbours of Tate, essayed by Margot Robbie in the film.
