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No one would have guessed that Brad Pitt is a big fan of Frank Ocean. In a recent interview for GQ's latest issue, the 53-year-old actor opened up about his split from Angelina Jolie, including how music has helped him through the hard situation.

"I've been listening to a lot of Frank Ocean," Pitt said. "I find this young man so special. Talk about getting to the raw truth. He's painfully honest. He's very, very special. I can't find a bad one. And of great irony to me: Marvin Gaye's 'Here, My Dear' [Gaye's touchstone album about divorce]. And that kind of sent me down a road."

He also revealed that playing emotional characters throughout his career has helped him understand more about pain and R&B music. "I'm kind of done playing those. I think it was more pain tourism. It was still an avoidance in some way," he said, before adding, "I've never heard anyone laugh bigger than an African mother who's lost nine family members. What is that? I just got R&B for the first time. R&B comes from great pain, but it's a celebration. To me, it's embracing what's left. It's that African woman being able to laugh much more boisterously than I've ever bee able to."

In addition, the actor claimed that he finds solace in sculpting. "I'm making everything. I'm working with clay, plaster, rebar, wood," he explained. "I don't really think of myself much as an actor anymore. It takes up so little of my year and my focus. Film feels like a cheap pass for me, as a way to get at those hard feelings. It doesn't work anymore, especially being a dad."