Ryan Gosling's ‘The Big Short’ Co-Star Brad Pitt: Too Many People Hurt By Subprime Mortgages, Financial Collapse

Along with Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell and Christian Bale, Brad Pitt plays one of the four characters in "The Big Short" who predicted the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s. Recently, Angelina Jolie's husband shared his thoughts on subprime mortgages and the financial collapse in 2008.

"Too many people got hurt," Bloomberg quoted Pitt as saying on the red carpet outside the Ziegfeld Theatre in Manhattan, New York, for the premiere of "The Big Short" on Nov. 23, Monday. "People can get hurt again."

Pitt added that the fact that nobody was held accountable for the collapse of the housing market drives him crazy. He explained, "There's something seriously wrong. You talk to the experts now and nothing's changed. The same practices are still going on."

In real life, Jolie's husband feels sympathy for the people who lost their homes and jobs because of subprime mortgages. In "The Big Short," the character he played as well as those played by Gosling, Carell and Bale are outsiders in the world of high-finance who decide to tackle the big banks for their insufficient greed and foresight.

In another interview with Us Weekly at "The Big Short" premiere, Pitt pointed out that the big banks culpable for the subprime mortgages and the financial collapse "got away with everything and none of them were prosecuted or brought to justice" and that is why "we've learned nothing."

Aside from Pitt, Gosling, Carell and director Adam McKay attended the "The Big Short" premiere in Manhattan. McKay also wrote the screenplay of the upcoming drama film based on the book about housing and credit bubble written by Michael Lewis.