Brad Pitt sought advice from Bono

Actor Brad Pitt has said that he turned to Bono for help with humanitarian issues in the late 1990s.

The 48-year-old was speaking in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. He said that during a trip to Casablanca in the late 1990s, he saw "poverty to an extreme I had never witnessed before."

He added "I sought out Bono and sat down with him a few times and got involved in some of the stuff he was doing. But it all started before that. It started with private acts."

Pitt also spoke about working alongside Michael Fassbender on his next collaboration with Hunger and Shame director, Steve McQueen, namely Twelve Years a Slave. ! He descr ibed the film as a story about "a free black man in the north who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South.

"I'm only doing a small cameo, but it stars Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor and there've been very few movies about slavery, certainly that had the impact of Roots."

Speaking about suffering from depression Pitt, 48, said: "I was hiding out from the celebrity thing; I was smoking way too much dope; I was sitting on the couch and just turning into a doughnut. I really got irritated with myself.

"I got to, 'What's the point? I know better than this'. I used to deal with depression, but I don't now, not this decade - maybe last decade. But that's also figuring out who you are. I see it as a great education, as one of the seasons or a semester - 'This semester I was majoring in depression'."


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