In a wide-ranging interview with Esquire published on Monday, the Academy Award winner said he’s no longer sober and that he had felt suicidal at one point over “family stuff.” Elsewhere in the interview, Pitt opened up about the death of his mother in August 2025. Pitt plays Special Forces Officer James Belmont in the film, who, along with his combat dog Odin, finds himself “stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness,” according to a synopsis.