"The script for BULLET TRAIN came during the pandemic when everyone had some kind of depression and people were almost going crazy. I started reading it and when I got to the character of Bad Bunny I started laughing out loud. then who sent me everything? My friend David Leitch, who had been my stunt man in FIGHT CLUB ".
In a beige suit and white t-shirt, Brad Pitt talks about his new film, BULLET TRAIN by David Leitch, in an international press meeting, where he plays the role of Ladybug, a disenchanted killer and philosopher determined to complete his dirty work with his bare hands on an exaggeratedly fast bullet train.
The Sony film, adaptation of the 2010 novel "The Seven Killers of the Shinkansen"
(Maria Bītoru) written by Kōtarō Isaka, in cinemas from 25 August with Warner and premiered on 3 August at the Locarno Film Festival, tells of five killers who find themselves on a train from Tokyo to Morioka with only a few stops in between.
During the journey, the five killers discover that each of them is there for the same mission and that therefore that super modern train will become the arena for them to survive.
Who is Ladybug?
"He's a bit of a fool - replies Pitt - a killer in an existential crisis who has a nervous breakdown behind him, perhaps also because of what happened to him at work. the answers and that his life can now be full again. And he also believes, he who is a murderer, that things can be resolved peacefully ",
continues Pitt - Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for ONCE UPON A TIME HOLLYWOOD - who recently, at the age of 58, revealed that he was in crisis and had touched upon depression.
Among the bastards on the train who must conquer an aluminum briefcase we find Joey King as Prince, a British assassin who pretends to be a mild-mannered student;
Aaron Taylor-Johnson who plays the elegant and ruthless Tangerine who travels with his assistant Lemon (Bryan Tyree Henry);
Bud Bunny (The Wolf) and Hiroyuki Sanada (Elder).
Says director David Leight (DEADPOOL 2) instead: "I was drawn to the originality of this type of film. It's fun, it has brilliant dialogue, but the most important thing is that its characters are well defined. It's a fun thriller. d '
action with crazy and bombastic elements, but also a meditation on destiny. "And again Leight:" All these characters, however, show their humanity.
Ladybug wants to be a better person and even those played by Brian Tyree Henry and Aaron Taylor-Johnson are like two brothers who care for each other.
Joey King's character is a sociopath, but he still has a dynamic with his father that we can all relate to.
In short, you can take a trip with all these ruthless killers, but also cheer for them and laugh at their jokes. "Finally, says Bryan Tyree Henry - known for the role of Alfred" Paper Boi "Miles in the television series ATLANTA - on the great alchemy of the couple. formed by him and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, two criminal 'brothers', very Tarantinian,
but at the same time full of affection for each other.
"As soon as I met Aaron, it was like I found a friend to hang out with, but also a colleague that I immediately appreciated. Thanks to David, we worked hard to build this couple that the audience could love."