Better astronaut actor - Pitt or Clooney?

Brad Pitt asks astronaut: Who was better - me or George Clooney?
10:55, Sep 17 2019

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Brad Pitt gets seal of approval on new space film from ISS astronaut
Hollywood star Brad Pitt has received high praise for his new space film Ad Astra from an astronaut on the International Space Station. The Fight Club actor spoke with Nasa's Nick Hague at Mission Control in Houston.

Brad Pitt, star of the new space movie Ad Astra, had a burning question for a real-life astronaut.

"Who was more believable? Clooney or Pitt?"

In a televised call on Monday, NASA astronaut Nick Hague answered Pitt - "absolutely" - getting a big laugh. Pitt's Hollywood pal George Clooney starred in the 2013 space film Gravity.






Brad Pitt had a simple question: is he a better astronaut than George Clooney?




Hague and the rest of the International Space Station crew previewed Ad Astra a few weeks ago. The movie opens Thursday down here.

Pitt portrays an astronaut who travels through the solar system to find his father. The film includes actual NASA shots of the moon and Mars.



"How'd we do? How was our zero-G?" Pitt asked from NASA headquarters in Washington.







Brad Pitt got a chance to speak with astronaut Nick Hague aboad the International Space Station.

"I got to tell you, it was really good," said Hague, six months into his own 6-½ month mission.

"The depictions, the settings all as you can tell look very similar to the type of setting I've got around me. I got to imagine it was a lot easier for me to kind of enjoy the zero-G than it was you," he added, flipping in weightlessness.

Pitt noted the movie's spaceship was "a bit cleaner" than the station. After asking about spacewalking and seeing Earth from space, Pitt said, "Most important question: Who controls the jam box?" Answer: The astronauts take turns. With three Americans, two Russians and an Italian on board, the music has an "international flair", Hague said.









Ad Astra, starring Brad Pitt, opens in New Zealand cinemas on September 19.


The 20-minute chat ended with Pitt sharing, "I can't wait to brag to my kids".


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Well, I'm voting for George. At least he didn't half bore me to death in Gravity.

Not for nuthin', he wasn't on screen long enough for that!