Republican presidential hopeful tells radio station that if a movie were made about his life he wants the Moneyball star to play him
With polls placing Newt Gingrich up to 20% behind Mitt Romney in the
Republican race for presidential nomination, you have to admire any attempt to grab the headlines. In an interview with a Florida radio station, just before his defeat by Romney in the primary, Gingrich confessed that,
if a movie was ever made about his life, he saw Brad Pitt in the role.
Speaking to the Rich Stevens Radio Show on Ft Lauderdale, Florida station 850 WFTL, Gingrich admitted there might be one or two minor problems – "he's thinner, he's better looking, he's younger" – but that would be no artistic obstacle. "If you're going to go for it, you gotta relax and let your imagination soar."
In fact, Gingrich, 68, is two decades older than the 48-year-old Pitt, and the two appear to have almost nothing in common. Pennsylvania-born Gingrich has been a career politician since running for Congress in 1974 as a Republican; Pitt, born in Oklahoma but raised in Missouri, has regularly topped world's sexiest man polls and is a noted Hollywood liberal.
Pitt is also on the campaign trail in the runup to the Oscars later this month, as both an actor and producer.
He told the Guardian: "You've got these awards and there's going to be one winner and four losers, but the four losers made great films. A subtle point of Moneyball is that we're a string of successes and failures. Odds are I won't have another year like this one for a while."
Andrew Pulver
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