--- description: "I definitely believe in death after life," Brad Pitt told Stephen Colbert in the latest installment of Big Questions With Even Bigger Stars title: No One Is Sillier Than Brad Pitt Going Deep on Stephen Colbert image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0913e60e47e34a2f/6988cda1ab6d7773876ae224/pittcolbert.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch a Very Silly Brad Pitt and Stephen Colbert Contemplate Life, The Universe, and Netflix by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 17, 2017 3:16 PM CUT by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 17, 2017 3:16 PM CUT If you have ever wondered how [Brad Pitt](http://time.com/4501216/angelina-jolie-brad-pitt-love-story/?iid=sr-link1 "undefined") defines “infinity,” he revealed his thoughts on the deep, philosophical question on _The Late Show_. “It’s one less than the number of _Oceans_ sequels we’ll be making,” he told Stephen Colbert in the latest installment of “[Big Questions With Even Bigger Stars](http://time.com/4709006/ryan-reynolds-on-green-lantern/?iid=sr-link1 "undefined").” In Pitt’s return to the late night circuit after news of his [divorce](http://time.com/4502646/angelina-jolie-brad-pitt-wax-figures/?iid=sr-link3 "undefined") from [Angelina Jolie](http://time.com/4505928/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-divorce/?iid=sr-link6 "undefined"), Pitt and Colbert chilled out on a blanket and pretended to gaze up at the stars while asking each other thought-provoking questions, like “Hey Stevie-C, Do you think mathematics are the underlying structure of the universe, or did we just invent it?” and discussing their belief in the after life. “I definitely believe in death after life,” says Pitt, while admitting he’s unsure about the opposite. As for Colbert, when he surveys the stars he sees “an endless void. No answers. No meaning. No way to construct coherence from the swirling chaos,” oh wait, no, that was just him looking at a cloud that resembles Press Secretary Sean Spicer. Their deep conversation ends when Pitt poses the age-old campfire conundrum to Colbert: “Would you rather time travel to the past or the future?” Colbert suavely admits he would travel to Friday, May 26th, the day Pitt’s movie _War Machine_ premieres on Netflix. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4782130/brad-pitt-on-colbert/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4782130/brad-pitt-on-colbert/"},"headline":"Watch a Very Silly Brad Pitt and Stephen Colbert Contemplate Life, The Universe, and Netflix","datePublished":"2017-05-17T15:16:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:56:46.227Z","description":"\"I definitely believe in death after life,\" Pitt told Colbert in the latest installment of Big Questions With Even Bigger Stars","url":"https://time.com/4782130/brad-pitt-on-colbert/","keywords":["Newsfeed","stephen colbert","Brad Pitt","Late Night Television","late show with stephen colbert"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0913e60e47e34a2f/6988cda1ab6d7773876ae224/pittcolbert.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0913e60e47e34a2f/6988cda1ab6d7773876ae224/pittcolbert.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"PittColbert","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4782130/brad-pitt-on-colbert/","name":"Watch a Very Silly Brad Pitt and Stephen Colbert Contemplate Life, The Universe, and Netflix"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"\"I definitely believe in death after life,\" Pitt told Colbert in the latest installment of Big Questions With Even Bigger Stars","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4782130/brad-pitt-on-colbert/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4782130/brad-pitt-on-colbert/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```