Brad Pitt: Don't Take Your Kids to Work Days

Find out why only one of the world's most famous father's six children visited him on the set of Inglourious Basterds

By Marc Malkin Jun 07, 2009 6:15 PMTags
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Knox, Pax, Shilo, ZaharaJunko Kimura/Getty Images

Brad Pitt's Inglourious Basterds costars really wanted to meet all of his and Angelina Jolie's kids.

Unfortunately for them, only one of the six children visited the set.

Why?

"He brought Maddox one or two times because he's the oldest," actor Samm Levine told us at Friday's premiere of Katherine Bigelow's The Hurt Locker. "But everybody wanted him to bring the others, too. Everyone would always ask him, ‘Hey! When are you going to bring the kids?' And he said, ‘It's a World War II movie. What's a good day to bring my kids to this set? I don't think it would be right.' So he had a point there. And we were all pretty bummed about that, but we respected his reasoning. He's a pretty responsible guy."

Levine, who plays PFC Gerold Hirschberg in the Quentin Tarantino film, said he was amazed how un-unnerved Mr. Pitt was by the ubiquitous paparazzi.

"It was really something to see firsthand—to watch these guys just chase after Brad," Levine said. "I mean, life and limb be damned, they are going after this man! They want a photograph of the side of his head going into a car. It was old hat to Brad. He was absolutely incredible about the whole thing. It didn't faze him one bit.

Levine also said his body has become quite popular with his female friends. "They want to know what parts of my body touched Brad's," he said with a laugh. "Unfortunately, it's mostly my hand. I shook his hand. Maybe a pat on the shoulder."

Meanwhile, the premiere of The Hurt Locker, an action flick about an Army bomb squad in Iraq, attracted some major boldfaced names. Spotted at the premiere were Drew Barrymore, Charlize Theron, Zac Efron and Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke.

—Reporting by Dahvi Shira

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