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Is Brad Pitt hitting retirement age? In a recent interview with GQ Magazine, the smoking hot 58-year-old actor says that he believes his career is shutting down, and entering its final stages.

“I consider myself on my last leg,” Pitt said. “This last semester or trimester. What is this section gonna be? And how do I wanna design that?”

Pitt recently won an Oscar in 2020 for his performance in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and is starring in Sony’s action spectacular Bullet Train later this year. So you wouldn’t think he’d be giving up so soon — or giving up at all. But at the very least, this scant quote seems to indicate he may be planning his exit strategy, at least as a performer.

So what’s next before the old age home for the man Tarantino calls “one of the last remaining movie stars”? As Pitt ages gracefully on our television screens he described what he wants his next role to be something “personal” to catch his interest.

It would be hard to call Bullet Train, an action-comedy thriller that premieres this summer where he plays an assassin who’s just recovered from a case of burnout, returning to his high-stakes job with a somewhat misguided sense of confidence about his fitness for duty, as “personal.” And yet, as Pitt describes it, “You know, you do a month of therapy, you have one epiphany, and you think you’ve got it all figured out, and you’re never going to be forlorn ever again. That was that. ‘I got this. I’m good to go!'”

Even as he (potentially) whittles down his acting roles, Pitt is still extremely active as a producer with his production company, Plan B Entertainment. Pitt admitted that the experience of producing is “gratifying in new and different ways.” In particular, this year, movies on Plan B’s roster include Women Talking, an adaptation of Miriam Toews’s novel about a group of Mennonite women who unite against their rapists, and Andrew Dominik’s Blonde, an NC-17 biographical drama starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe.

Not too shabby for an old guy.