While he has publicly revealed that he has cancer, Frédéric Mitterrand has just released Brad, a book dedicated to Brad Pitt published on April 13 by XO Editions. On this occasion, Paris Match publishes exclusive and surprising photos.
At 75, Frédéric Mitterrand is battling cancer. In promotion for his book Brad, he appears with a beret, as if to cover the effects of the treatments. In his new book, the former Minister of Culture traces the career of Brad Pitt. He looks back on both his successes and his failures. He discusses his private life and his many conquests. Frédéric Mitterrand reveals a real admiration for the American actor. “I wrote a book about Brad Pitt because I love him.” he said in a press release. let’s edit XO. “I don’t know him, he doesn’t know me, but maybe he’ll stop on this bottle by the sea when he discovers that he has a friend somewhere in France who loves him, admires him and understands it”, confided Frédéric Mitterrand in the columns of Paris Match.
This is for the magazine Paris Match that Frédéric Mitterrand agreed to lend himself to an unprecedented experience. Under the lens of photographer Sacha Goldberger, he slipped into the skin of his idol. Made up and wearing a wig, the former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy agreed to make up to look like Brad Pitt and replay scenes from cult films. This is how he slips into the skin of Tyler Durden, David Fincher’s crazy preacher in fight club. In another staging, Frédéric Mitterrand poses in a Hawaiian shirt alongside a 1950s Mercury Marquis in the style of the film Once upon a time…in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino.
Frédéric Mitterrand as Brad
The former TV host will have spent four days in the shoes of his idol. When the journalist Paris Match asks him why he played the game, his answer is simple: “Because it’s fun !“. Frédéric Mitterrand revealed that he felt sick as he finished”1938, the eye of the storm“, published in February 2022. The disease did not prevent him from throwing himself into writing another book. “When we are sick, we enter into another notion of time. So I threw myself into Brad. like a call, he explained in the columns of Paris Match.