Fatherhood has become a tonic for Brad Pitt as he fights a secret genetic depression.

The movie hunk plays moody outlaw Jesse James in his latest film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and he admits he didn't have to dig too deep to play the sad Wild West anti-hero.

He claims his family is surrounded by a great sadness, explaining, "They call it a congenital sadness. It's nothing that's on the surface.

"It's something that I feel in my grandparents, in the people I've met, in a Southern way of life."

And, playing James, who like Pitt also hails from the plains from Missouri, reminded the actor of the melancholy that has dogged him his entire life.

He adds, "He's from the same area that I'm from. I was surprised how much that meant to me in the end, to do something that had a connection with home."

But becoming a father to three adopted kids and his natural daughter Shiloh with actress Angelina Jolie has given Pitt a new-found happiness.

He says, "It's the greatest thing I've ever taken on. It's the most difficult, the most rewarding and the most fun. I think this is the greatest thing I could possibly achieve, and hats off to all the parents out there."

 

 

 

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