London’s Daily Mail newspaper has reported that actor Brad Pitt, 49, has acquired a Supermarine Spitfire for £2 million ($3.3 million), and will learn to fly it at the Boultbee Flight Academy in Oxford, U.K. The paper offered no information on who the seller is, nor what model Spitfire Pitt has bought.
The actor is currently in England filming Fury, a World War II action drama due for release in November 2014. According to the paper, Pitt prepared for his role as the commander of an American tank (named Fury) by sleeping in trenches and learning to operate a tank. The film is set during the final weeks of the war, and Pitt’s character leads a group on a dangerous mission behind German lines.
