{"id":231240,"date":"2019-09-17T03:53:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T07:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=231240"},"modified":"2019-09-17T03:53:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T07:53:17","slug":"brad-pitt-asks-astronaut-who-was-better-clooney-or-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/17\/brad-pitt-asks-astronaut-who-was-better-clooney-or-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt asks astronaut: Who was better? Clooney or me?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brad Pitt, star of the new space movie “Ad Astra,” had a burning question for a real-life astronaut. (File Photo<\/a>: Eva Rinaldi\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Brad Pitt, star of the new space movie “Ad Astra,”\u00a0had a burning question for a real-life astronaut.<\/p>\n

“Who was more believable? Clooney or Pitt?”<\/p>\n

In a televised call Monday, NASA astronaut Nick Hague answered Pitt \u2014\u00a0“absolutely”\u00a0\u2014\u00a0getting a big laugh. Pitt’s Hollywood pal George Clooney starred in the 2013 space film “Gravity.”<\/p>\n

Hague and the rest of the International Space Station crew previewed “Ad Astra”\u00a0a few weeks ago. The movie opens Friday down here.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“How’d we do? How was our zero-G?”\u00a0Pitt asked from NASA headquarters in Washington.<\/p>\n

“I got to tell you, it was really good,”\u00a0said Hague, six months into his own 6 1\/2-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,”\u00a0he added, flipping in weightlessness.<\/p>\n

Pitt noted the movie’s spaceship was “a bit cleaner”\u00a0than the station. After asking about spacewalking and seeing Earth from space, Pitt said, “Most important question: Who controls the jam box?”\u00a0Answer: The astronauts take turns. With three Americans, two Russians and an Italian on board, the music has an “international flair,”\u00a0Hague said.<\/p>\n

The 20-minute chat ended with Pitt sharing, “I can’t wait to brag to my kids.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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