Maureen Callahan says Brad Pitt is a 'dim bulb' who blamed Jennifer Aniston for his own emptiness

Thirteen years after Brad Pitt told Parade magazine that his marriage to Jennifer Aniston was boring, Maureen Callahan is here to offer a blunt translation. Pitt is just a dim bulb. On The Megyn Kelly Show, the author and columnist dug up the infamous 2011 interview to argue that Pitt’s habit of blaming his ex-wives for his discontent masks his own glaring lack of depth.

The original interview, which lives in infamy for anyone who followed the Aniston-Pitt-Jolie tabloid wars, featured a 47-year-old Pitt claiming he spent the 1990s hiding out and getting stoned. He told the magazine he was trying to find a movie about an interesting life because he wasn’t living one himself, pointing the finger squarely at his marriage to Aniston. Callahan has exactly zero patience for this tortured-artist routine. She points out that the people who share movie sets with Brad Pitt know exactly who he is.

And by the way, even people who’ve worked with Brad Pitt, who like the guy, all of them say he is really a dim bulb.

The cruelty of the 2011 interview was always in the comparison. Pitt publicly contrasted his supposedly dull years with Aniston against his new life with Angelina Jolie. He bragged about being a satisfied man. Callahan reads this not as a romantic tribute to Jolie, but as a deliberate, deeply unnecessary shot at Aniston’s sexual prowess.

The real revelation here is not about the women. It is about Pitt outsourcing his own personal growth to the people he dates, and then resenting them when he still feels empty inside. He expects his partners to make him interesting. When they inevitably fail to cure his boredom, he publicly throws them under the bus.

Again, I don’t think he’s a deep thinker. I don’t think he cares to know himself. I don’t know if he’s capable of it. Hence, we’re blaming all the women he’s chosen to marry