brad pittBrad Pitt has said that after making The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, he’s not afraid to grow old - but the thought of dying still scares him.

In the film, Brad plays a man who is born in his eighties and grows younger as the years pass.

Speaking at a news conference yesterday ahead of the film’s European premiere in Berlin, he said: “I’m not so afraid of getting old, I’m more afraid of how I’ll go.

“Fire and tight spaces don’t appeal. A shark would be interesting.”

But whatever happens, he joked that he’ll go down with dry cheeks: “I don’t cry, I’m as hard as nails.”