/ 15 March 2001

Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston in baby ‘negotiations’

London – “Marriage is great. It’s made me feel very good about taking this kind of journey together with a terrific woman who wants to share my life and share the journey with me,” he said.

As far as babies are concerned Pitt told the Sunday Express magazine in an interview: “The planning is under way, negotiations are taking place, and I’m willing to predict a successful conclusion.”

Earlier this year, Pitt appeared more cautious about fatherhood in an interview with Details magazine in the United States. “I’m still a little selfish…I’m sure I’ll [expletive] them up somehow,” he said then.

But now the star, named as People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” a record-breaking two times, declares: “I believe in the concept of marriage and family and it’s always been my intention to take this step and build a life with someone.”

Pitt is wary of the media, particularly after a tabloid newspaper published a picture of him and his former partner Gwyneth Paltrow frolicking naked on a beach.

He admits he has created a protective wall around his relationship to Aniston, who he married last year.

“At certain points in my life I could honestly not believe how huge the whole media frenzy became,” he said, “…Now I don’t care anymore, because I realise that it’s not personal – you’re just a vehicle for the notion of celebrity.”

He said his good looks and adoring fans make him feel permanently “like a girl walking past construction workers.”

In his latest movie, The Mexican, Pitt stars with Julia Roberts.

“I loved the story and the character and the fact that it was an opportunity to work with Julia Roberts,” he said. “We’d been looking off and on for a project to do together. We both jumped on the chance to do a film that was low-budget and not exactly a mainstream kind of comedy.”

The film cost $40 million to make, a sum that would have been almost swallowed up by the two stars’ salaries if they had not taken pay cuts.