Hollywood star Brad Pitt has joked his daughters aren't interested in his new blockbuster as it doesn't star Selena Gomez.

The hunk's newest big screen outing is zombie movie World War Z, and the actor says although his sons are rather impressed by the sci-fi action role, his daughters would prefer to watch singer-and-actress Gomez on screen.

Pitt quipped in an interview with Access Hollywood: "If it’s got Selena Gomez in it or something they’ll be interested in it. I gotta work on that for the next one.

He added: "I earned some points with [the boys] and they gave it a thumbs up."

Pitt and Angelina Jolie raise six children together, Maddox, Pax, Knox, Shiloh, Zahara and Vivienne and the three girls are said to be big fans of the star's TV show Wizards of Waverly Place.

Gomez has previously revealed how nervous she was about meeting Pitt at an awards show.

She explained: "So I was in my dressing room and I had just finished performing. They knocked on my door and they said, 'Brad Pitt would like to come in,' and I was like, 'He can come in.' I was trying to play cool and be really nice. As soon as he walked out I ran and I hid under the craft service table for like two minutes because I couldn't believe it was happening."