As Brad Pitt prepares to debut his spacey new film, Ad Astra, to planet earth on September 20th, the actor has confessed that he set out to improve on the space film performance of his good buddy George Clooney.
to ask an expert who was better -- Clooney, who starred in 2013 space film Gravity, or Pitt who plays Roy McBride Roy (a man journeying across the solar system in search of his missing father) in Ad Astra.
Who was more believable -- Clooney or Pitt? Pitt quizzed astronaut Nick Hague during a phone call from NASA Headquarters.
No, he said, when asked if he reached out to his pal before filming Ad Astra.
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